Posts tagged programming
Cloud Developer Kits gloss over their best feature!
- 06 December 2024
Between the little over two years since I wrote ‘No one should write Terraform’, rewriting large parts of our Internal Developer Platform, and starting on ‘Cally’; there was something myself and most of the commenters missed. Cloud Development Kits often ignore what I would consider one of the strongest selling points. Decoupling yourself and your engineers from your infrastructure!
No one should write Terraform
- 13 August 2022
Reflecting upon zwischenzugs insightful and thought provoking article “Who should write the Terraform?”, the TL;DR conclusion I’ve come to is “No One”.
The Hugs Strike Back!
- 29 January 2018
Another year, another amazing Linux Conf AU! Based on feedback from LCA2017, I was definitely going to iterate on the hug detector. In that time the ESP32 platform has begun to mature and because I like challenges, decided to use a board I received days prior to leaving for the conference and really only flashed with blink.
Come on; do you want your mods to live forever?
- 22 January 2018
At the Linux Conf Au Games and Foss Mini Conference, @ducky_tape and @The_McJones gave me an opportunity to talk on my experiences archiving over 11,000 mods for Kerbal Space Program. It was also captured by the awesome LCA AV Team, which you can watch here!
Don’t underestimate the… Doorbell
- 04 June 2017
A while ago I needed a doorbell, so I hacked one together using a Raspberry Pi I had laying around. It was a temporary fix while I got around to building an Arduino based replacement. A month or so ago the SD card croaked, so it was time.
Hacking your Conference badge for Hugs & Profit
- 22 January 2017
Last week was Linux Conf AU 2017, which is a community run Free and Open Source Software conference that is in a different A/NZ city every year. This year I’d managed to attend the Open Hardware MiniConf and was inspired to build something during the conference. I’m not sure how it occurred to me to build a ‘Hug Detector’ into my Conference badge, but it did and after talking about it with some fellow delegates, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Automating your home with ‘themachine’
- 11 January 2017
There will be more posts to come, but for some time I have been playing around with home automation. One of the things I really wanted to do was utilise some form of machine learning to make decisions about when I wanted the Shed’s Airconditioning or the wall fan turned on. I could have utilised rules in my OpenHAB based home automation system, however I’d already gotten reasonably creative with those and wanted a challenge.
Powershell + Windows Update
- 09 June 2015
Windows administration is part of my job that I don’t enjoy as much as linux, but it is still necessary. Though Windows is becoming less and less required, a lot of software still relies on it.
EventStreamr Talk at PLUG
- 16 April 2015
This week I presented at PLUG, a brief history of AV, PLUG’s involvement with Linux Conf AU and EventStreamr.
Title: WebService::Strava - A Strava API Perl Client
- 26 August 2014
Being a Cyclist and a Geek, I like to track things. Being a Sys Admin and a Programmer I also like this to happen in the most efficient manner possible. Insert Strava, which is basically a social networking platform for cyclists/runners/swimmers (I believe they’re adding more as well). Strava has an App for recording things or you can use any app or device that can output in one of the supported formats (GPX, FIT and TCX).
Jira Automation + Copying Fields
- 04 August 2014
We heavily utilise Jira at my place of work and one of our non IT based departments use it in their business processes. It was chosen to replace a custom developed, unreliable .NET application and apart from minor bending to suit the processes Jira is an excellent replacement. It’s also far more reliable, far easier to keep up-to-date and runs on Linux!
Dancing with WebSockets
- 20 February 2014
I learnt during the development of the EventStreamR frontend that websockets are cool! Another learning project of mine is NanodeControl and after learning what all the cool new things are available I wanted to have a crack at making it more modern.
Git: Bah, wrong branch!
- 11 February 2014
I love git, it’s a really great tool. However no matter how used I get to my workflows I eventually end up commiting something into the wrong branch!
Automating AV: EventStreamr
- 20 January 2014
EventStreamR come to inception from a collection of experiences amongst our local LUG the Perth Linux User Group. Although we call ourselves PLUG, we have members from all over the state. Western Australia being quite large, 2,529,875 square km or over 10 times bigger than Victoria; so some of our members find it quite difficult to attend. A few years ago an initiave started by James Bromberger was to film and live stream all PLUG talks so that every member had an oppurtunity to attend our meetings, even if they couldn’t necessarily make it in person.
