Crazy ideas on cloud infrastructure, provisioning, scaling platforms and beyond. Often wrong.
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Since returning from a 6-week international trip at the end of June, I've been meaning to write this unsponsored love letter to a piece of gear that completely changed the way I travel. But let's start with a story... A wild idea appears... The year was 2015,…
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GitHub recently announced support for signing commits using a GPG key. This provides an extra layer of security when verifying changes made to a repository come from valid users. Setting up GPG is super easy with Keybase, so I won't repeat the instructions her…
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I've been a long-standing fan of inspirational desktop photos. When I discovered Unsplash, a service that provides 10 royalty-free high-resolution photos to spruce up my desktops every 10 days, I jumped straight on it. However, the Unsplash project (which is r…
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After a few months using Chef, the need to run commands on many nodes at once appeared. While Chef itself has a knife ssh option, it does not provide an interactive way of running commands on a group of nodes and then getting an immediate response. And if you…
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There are many posts on the Internet about Amazon Web Service's (AWS) AutoScaling, just as many posts about Chef and, as you'd expect, there is a fair selection of posts about using Chef to bootstrap new instances in AutoScaling. What seems to be lacking from…
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Excellent read on how to make big decisions. Simple, yet surprisingly effective. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried.…
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This is a helpful little script I found on the net and modified to work around an issue with fast CPUs and slow IRC servers. If you find yourself needing to send messages from a shell script to an IRC server but keep coming against the 451 PRIVMSG: You have no…