Think for yourself. Solve problems.

For the past nine years I’ve been keeping myself busy making businesses run more smoothly with less overhead, downtime, and providing plans for the future. This is done by providing creative, often simple solutions to complex problems.

My primary focus is software and systems engineering.

I have extensive knowledge of:

• Linux and BSD variants
• Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), and competition such as Google’s Cloud Platform
• Programming languages from Go, Java, Python, PHP, and Javascript
• Large Postgres and MySQL / MariaDB installations

I also keep several hobbies including but not limited to:

• reading
• fixing cars
• road trips
• hiking
• welding and fabrication
• photography
• posting blog entries to this website

Feel free to reach out to me, Mitchell “Mitch” Riedstra, at: mitch@riedstra.dev

Recent Blog Entries:

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• 2023-01-07 Why Software Engineers don’t avoid Complexity
• 2023-01-05 Rootless Podman on Alpine Linux
• 2022-12-31 Alpine Linux on a Laptop How-To
• 2022-12-29 Selling out your future to ease the moment
• 2022-02-23 Setting up Alpine Linux as a Home Router
• 2021-10-20 SSH Askpass and dmenu – dmenu_askpass
• 2021-10-17 Automatically stuffing a Certificate Authority into pass
• 2021-10-17 Ansible + Pass ( Eliminate Ansible Vault )
• 2021-08-10 Simple backup methodology
• 2021-08-07 Setting up GnuPG/PGP on a Yubikey 5
• 2021-07-31 Using a FIDO U2F hardware key with SSH
• 2021-07-25 Direct booting Linux on a EFI / UEFI system
• 2021-07-20 Simple and explicit SSH key management
• 2021-07-02 Adding Encrypted OpenBSD to Your Multi Boot Setup
• 2021-07-02 How to multi boot encrypted Windows and Ubuntu
• 2021-04-29 Nearly a month away from home
• 2020-09-25 Effective Work Environments with Tmux and (optionally) Vim.
• 2020-09-15 Listing open sockets on OpenBSD
• 2019-09-29 Setting up Alpine Linux in AWS
• 2019-09-07 Setting up Alpine Linux in Google Cloud Platform ( GCP )
• 2019-03-24 Automatically populate SSH keys from Github or Gogs API
• 2019-03-17 Docker + nftables
• 2018-12-26 Logging, Firewall and Backups - A Void Linux VPS Part II
• 2018-12-14 Installing Void Linux on Digital Ocean - A Void Linux VPS Part I
• 2018-12-10 Booting MS Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux off of the same drive.
• 2018-12-05 On Objectivity
• 2018-11-22 How to “hack” DigitalOcean to run OpenBSD w/ native IPv6
• 2018-11-19 Automatic deployment via git push
• 2017-10-24 Analysis of Fuller
• 2017-01-22 Gosrv - A simple Go file server
• 2016-02-12 Nginx, Jekyll and Git
• 2015-10-05 Android 6 Tethering and Root on Nexus 5

Other pages:

• Used Vehicle Guide/Checklist
  • Shortened/Summarized Version
• Vehicle toolkit
• My Git server

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Unless otherwise noted, any code snippets on this blog are public domain.