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Transmission Repair at Agile Automotive

I decided to repair or replace the Y1 cable transmission. After searching for a reputable transmission shop, I found Agile Automotive in Maryland. They are helping to coordinate rebuilding the Y1 transmission.

Using hiera-eyaml in Visual Studio Code

I've been working with hiera's awesome eyaml backend to encrypt secrets, certificates, and keys within Puppet. As it turns out, there's an extension available for Visual Studio Code that allows for encryption and decryption of hiera eyaml data directly within…

Reassembling the Roof, Doors, Rear, and Interior

The CRX was back from the paint shop and ready for be reassembled. I spent two weeks putting the roof, hatch, rear bumper, doors, and interior back together with (mostly) labeled and documented parts.

Paint

It’s finally happening! It’s been almost 3 years since I purchased the CRX from South Carolina. Now that the body was work completed, it’s time for a new coat of paint. I was able to schedule time with Heritage Auto…

PowerShell One-Liner: Updating VMware Tools on Multiple Windows Guests Asynchronously

This one-liner makes use of the pipeline to get VMs in a given datacenter and update their VMware Tools version to the most current supported by the ESXi host.

PowerShell One-Liner: Combining Groups

The task: merge the members of Active Directory groups into a group called "RingCentral - Access." The group "RingCentral - Access" already exists and contains valid members. Each member is an Active Directory user object.

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