let's kubern8 One day, Gregor Samsa woke up and found himself contemplating Kubernetes for a home server cluster. It was not quite as scary as being a cockroach. Here's the some total of what I
late listicles for a tuesday morning in february Things I have enjoyed in the last few weeks: Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind — If you have not read this article, which is in itself a biting and
List articles for airports Written on location in the Atlanta Hartfield-Jackson Int'l Airport I still don't run Crouton on my Chromebook. I'm curious about how far the standard non-development permissions can go. Supposedly if one builds software
5x a week: 11/27 About 10 days ago I decided to intentionally stay off the usual attention vampires (the site with the big blue Bird). For my state of mind this has been a Good Thing. Instead
The School of [Database] Rock Wow, it's been months since I gave this talk at Nomad PHP back in November 2015! So far, the promised blog series on PHP+Postgres has not materialized and, given my current level
Planning for Disaster (with free worksheet!) Did you have a server in Linode's Atlanta datacenter? How was the last 48 hours? Downtime sucks. Your beautiful sites -- those sites that your clients pay for, that make them money --
fixing shared group permissions for sftp Here's a really common scenario I've encountered in my days of server-ing: shared folders. The story goes like this: "we set up a shared folder, but when one person uploads a file,
php Composer: Using your own fork of a public library (without publishing anything to packagist) You're working away and you hit a bug in one of your Composer dependencies. You quickly find the problem, it's a one line fix, back to work. The problem now is: how do
code two beautiful [code] things Despite what pg might tell you, computer programs are not "art" in the traditional sense. Yet they are art in the expanded sense of "Quality" expounded on in Zen
devil is in the details silent errors & PHP stream wrappers Did you know that the AWS PHP library for S3 includes a PHP stream wrapper? By hooking into PHP's stream extension, it lets you do things like file_get_contents('s3://mybucket/everything_
factor Boa Constructor Did you know that Factor has a boa constructor? Yes, you read that right, not a "constrictor", but a constructor. From Slava's blog: Here construct-boa is a low-level word taking a
longform UX, Compassion, and Software User eXperience design, or UX is often thought of as "sketching our application's screens and fretting over stuff like accessibility while sipping espresso." But there's not always espresso. And UX is
factor Solving Embarrassingly Simple Problems (in Factor) This is an old draft that I discovered when going through my gists. Everything I wrote then is still true, so please enjoy! This Article has struck a chord with me. I'm not
Scala Notes on Scala I'm taking the the Signature Track of the "Functional Programming in Scala" Coursera class and having an inordinate amount of fun. Not that I have a large need to write Scala,
Physical Labor links General links on the effect of physical labor on mental health / emotional happiness: http://www.rc.usf.edu/~jdorio/Articles/Flexible work schedules and mental and physical health.pdf http://link.springer.com/
drugs Serotonin This blew my mind: Approximately 90% of the human body's total serotonin is located in the enterochromaffin cells in the GI tract. Yes, serotonin is synthesized by the body. In the gut. Which
flow Thoughts on Flow, games Seeking novelty and the flow state is basic to life: Why has the hobo lifestyle been such a rewarding experience? It was new. When did it begin to lose it’s luster? Right
Rewriting Wordpress permalinks for Ghost with nginx I migrated this blog to Ghost some time ago, but I thought it might be useful to someone else to see how I kept my permalinks intact after moving off Wordpress. Here's the
golang Go 1.3 is released! http://blog.golang.org/go1.3 They've improved the linker speed and laid out some grand plans for the Go compiler's future. Phase one: build a C to Go translator, automatically rewrite Go
Stripe CTF 3.0 From: https://stripe.com/blog/ctf3-coming-soon Like with previous CTFs, our goal is to give you hands-on exposure to interesting engineering problems that you normally only get to read about. If you've been
Depression Depression, the secret we share Andrew Solomon @ TEDx Met: Depression, the secret we share "The opposite of depression is not happiness, it is vitality." One of the best talks I've seen about the reality of living
code Grown-up Tech "Avoid monocultures on large fleets of machines": Humans do dumb things. You can either accept that and create systems which are resilient in the face of our limitations, or you can
code Context-aware HTML Templates Issac Dawson, Security Researcher: The built in templating features [of Go] automatically encode by intelligently parsing the template and encoding dynamic values depending on where with in the template the output is to
tools Simple tools. So you may have heard of this cool open-source blogging platform called Ghost. They did a little Kickstarter and raised 10x of the funding they aimed at. Nearly £200k! For software! That they're
code KJV Programming What happens when you build a Markov chain from both KJV Bible and the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs? HILARITY. From King James Programming: God saith, What hast thou to do with