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Uptime Monitoring

I set up monitoring on my site, blog.cammurphy.com. I have two requirements: one - make sure my site has good up-time and two - be aware when it is down. I d...

KDE Plasma Crash Follow Up

This post is following up on my previous post about a KDE Plasmashell crash issue I was experiencing. It has since been resolved, but not by any action I to...

Theme Upgrade!

A year ago I published my first blog post. So much has changed since then, and I have been using just the default Jekyll theme the entire time. I wanted some...

RSS to Kobo

Staying informed in 2026 without being overwhelmed is a daunting task. I have tried many methods from RSS readers to fully going print media. However, I rece...

Advent Of Code

Intro One of my goals for 2026 is to sharpen my skills as a programmer. Since my job change, I have focused more on networking, security, and cloud infrastru...

KDE Plasma Crash Investigation

Intro I have been running Fedora Linux with KDE as my chosen desktop environment on my personal computer for a while now. It has been a pretty smooth process...

HSTS Headers

The purpose of this blog post is to learn about HSTS headers and how they work, with a side product of better securing my sites.

Round Robin And Sticky Sessions

What is Round-robin and what are sticky sessions? Round-robin and sticky sessions are a way to load balance servers. Load balancers spread client requests ac...

Artificial Intelligence

In early 2023, I like others was first introduced to ChatGPT. After playing around with it for a bit, I wrote it off as a novelty/curiosity and did not predi...

Under Construction

I recently decided to switch the domain of my blog from www.cammurphy.com to blog.cammurphy.com with plans to use www.cammurphy.com as a portfolio/personal l...

Keeping A Log Book

I recently read The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll in preparation for seeing him speak at THOTCON this year. The book was incredible, and I would encourage any...

One Month With Sublime

This year, I decided to switch from Visual Studio Code to Sublime Text Editor, partially inspired by this blog post.