I remember this qoute from Donald Rumsfeld who was once the Secretary of defense and it goes “There are known knowns… there are known unknowns… but there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Rumsfeld definitely wasn’t talking about AI coding assistants when he said that, but the quote fits this moment in software development a little too well.
I’ve been using Azure Storage for quite some time now, and it’s become an essential part of how I manage my blog images and family files. But before I explain how I use it, here’s a quick overview of what Azure Storage is.
Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage solution from Microsoft, first launched back in 2010 as part of the Azure cloud platform. It offers scalable, durable, and secure storage for a wide variety of data types. Think of it like a hard drive in the cloud, but not tied to a reseller.
Back in 2019 I wrote a post about my favorite VS Code plugins and here we are in 2025 and I’m still using it every single day. At this point VS Code has become my main IDE for both work and home projects. I still run Visual Studio from time to time, but VS Code has really become the Swiss Army knife for just about everything i run it for work task and home side projects and if i’m traveling i run it on my iPad via vscode.dev.
Azure Resource Graph (ARG) is one of those underrated tools in the Azure portal. If you’re managing multiple subscriptions or large environments, ARG is a lifesaver when it comes to quickly querying your Azure estate at scale. It’s built for performance and provides fast and efficient access to your resource metadata.
In this post, I’ll share two practical Azure Resource Graph queries I’ve used recently—one to visualize resource distribution by region and another to identify infrastructure managed by Terraform. Both are great starting points for gaining visibility into your cloud footprint.
Back in college on July 9th, 2002, I registered gogorichie.com through GoDaddy. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, driven by the curiosity of owning my own slice of the internet. Little did I know that domain would become my digital home for decades of blogging, experimentation, and tech journaling.
From LiveJournal to Blogspot and eventually to a self-hosted WordPress install in 2011, my blog has lived many lives. WordPress gave me ultimate flexibility. I could mold my blog into anything I wanted thanks to its massive plugin ecosystem. Over the years, I posted nearly 3000 blog entries — trust me, a lot of it was garbage — but it was mine, and I loved that freedom.
Like many folks post-2020, I’ve been working from home a lot more, and with that came a new set of challenges — one of them being how to let my family know when I’m in a meeting without yelling across the house or hanging a note on the door. I decided to solve that problem the way any tech nerd would — with a bit of home automation magic.
