Tony Cavella

Tony Cavella

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An AI pixel-art drawing of a patient being administered an IV by a healthcare provider.

Getting on with Treatment!

After what seems like forever, I have completed all of the required tests and my treatment team has developed their initial treatment plan. I'll be starting with a round of chemotherapy and then this may be followed by a round of radiation therapy.

Letting People Know

Letting People Know

Now you know you've got cancer, so how do you go about telling other people? In certain circumstances this can be as stressful as finding out for yourself. Just like you, everyone that you tell is going to want to know all the details and it is up

Comments and Subscriptions Fixed

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Comments and Subscriptions Fixed

If you had previously attempted to signup to either comment or receive newsletter updates, you would have found the system was broken! I have fixed this and now signup and commenting is a breeze.

AI generated image of doctor conducting tests on a patient in pixelart style.

It's Time for Tests!

So, now that I've been told told I have cancer, what is next? Well it is pretty simple, tests, tests, and more tests! The doctors need to figure out what is the source of these cancer cells, what type and the stage or progression.

AI Generated Pixelart, a patient consulting a doctor.

Surprise, you've got cancer!

Finding out you have cancer is pretty shocking news, no matter the scenario. So finding out you have cancer with no prior symptoms or inclination that you are sick can be doubly shocking.

Taking notes on an electronic tablet

Notes Improved

As an avid notetaker I'm always on the lookout for a better way to take notes. I've often tried using various digital tools to take typed notes. I've gone between Evernote, Onenote, among others, to my current digital notebook, Obsidian. And while Obsidian does

New design, new CMS

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New design, new CMS

This blog has been a constant evolution changes and improvements. It started as a very simple Jekyll based blog utilizing the Simple.css framework. Seeking further customization and a more of a modern design I set out to build my own theme based on Bootstrap. While both of these iterations

Red Hat and the state of the Linux ecosystem

Red Hat and the state of the Linux ecosystem

To date I've been fairly quiet on the latest IBM/Red Hat decisions. Over the past few weeks I've seen many posts sharing various opinions one way or another. Some people have been very critical of Red Hat's decision to stop publishing RHEL sources

Ansible Role: Chrony

Ansible Role: Chrony

As part of my day job my team and I have been working on building out an Infrastructure-as-Code framework and implementation. The end goal being able to spin-up and deploy our custom mobility gateways on the fly and customize to meet individual customer requirements easily. As part of this I

New desktop for 2023

New desktop for 2023

Following up on last year's post, we'll take a look at how my desktop has evolved on my laptop. We've moved from Fedora 35 to 37; again I like things stable so you won't find my systems running bleeding edge. I'

Improving my Jekyll workflow with Obsidian

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Improving my Jekyll workflow with Obsidian

I've bounced around on various blogs over the years and have learned one thing, if the publishing workflow is complicated or cumbersome, you are less likely to write. When considering a CMS like Wordpress, Ghost or Drupal, the have excellent WYSIWYG editors built-in that contribute to a simple

Welcome to 2023!

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Welcome to 2023!

Welcome to 2023! I find myself looking back at 2022 and wondering where the time went. If you look back at the history of posts on this site, it also reflects a similar feeling. A couple posts around the start of the year and then nothing until now. As with

What is this, a new look?

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What is this, a new look?

If you look back through my post history, you'll notice approximately 10 months since my previous post. I don't know about you, but I always have such great intentions for my personal site. In my head I have grand visions of sharing technical insights, how-tos, projects,

Court rules against embedded fonts

Court rules against embedded fonts

In a recent ruling from a German Court in Munich, a website owner was ordered to pay �100 fine for the use of embedded fonts. The court ruled that the use of Google's embedded font service was in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The court

Hello world, again

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Hello world, again

I'm happy to announce the site has been rebuilt using Simple.css version 2.0, which was just released by Kev Quirk two days ago. If you are looking to create a dead simple website, go check out his work at Simple.css. What's new? While

New Year, New Desktop

New Year, New Desktop

Following a trend from Mike Stone on FOSStodon, I'm posting my latest desktop for posterity. The point of the point was to compare desktops from now vs 10-years ago. Unfortunately, I have no screenshot of my desktop from 10-years ago, so I will start the trend today. This

Automating WD MyCloud backups to Backblaze B2

Automating WD MyCloud backups to Backblaze B2

Recently I decided I needed to take a more serious approach to data storage and ultimately data backup. In the past I've been, what can I say, careless with my data. Bulk storage has been completed on various USB hard drives and critical files have been backed up

Ansible Role: Wireguard

Ansible Role: Wireguard

Yesterday I completed and published my first official Ansible Role. Much of the motivation for this project came from the great work Jeff Geerling is doing around Ansible. If you are interested in getting started with Ansible, I highly suggest checking out his Ansible 101 series. The purpose of this

Custom Github profile

So, it seems I am a bit late to the party, but here nonetheless. A little over a year ago Github introduced profile customization through a custome README. To create your own, all you need to do is create a repo named after your username and then modify the README.

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What is this?

This is my personal blog. I am not one for long diatribes, however, I will try to document my various projects here. I hope to keep things very simple.