Articles

There’s an Atom feed for the rabid fans and the lazy.

• 2013-04-27 — Graceful stopping in Go
• 2013-04-19 — Go acknowledgement test
• 2012-08-03 — Federated Graphite
• 2012-01-03 — Square
• 2011-10-04 — Blueprints in the new AWS CloudFormation
• 2011-09-21 — Monads without pretension
• 2011-05-07 — A blueprint is not a diff but it doesn’t matter
• 2011-03-28 — Operable Ruby
• 2011-01-28 — Debian packaging for busy people — Debra and Freight
• 2011-01-13 — Git Paid, the programmer’s time tracker

• 2010-11-08 — Securing and Extending Puppet
• 2010-09-27 — Dependency management for grown ups
• 2010-08-16 — Introducing Doubledown
• 2010-07-27 — MultIO Ruby IO Multiplexer
• 2010-06-24 — Redis in Ganglia
• 2010-06-14 — rxvt-unicode
• 2010-05-11 — Debra
• 2010-05-10 — q, r, s, t
• 2010-03-10 — Man pages versus RubyGems
• 2010-02-23 — Clint, a Ruby command line argument parser
• 2010-02-08 — Leaving OpenDNS
• 2010-02-08 — OpenDNS MySQL abuses
• 2010-01-29 — PHP references
• 2010-01-27 — JSON in PHP
• 2010-01-06 — Things UNIX can do atomically

• September 2009 archives
• June 2009 archives
• May 2009 archives
• April 2009 archives
• March 2009 archives
• February 2009 archives
• January 2009 archives
• 2008 archives
• 2007 archives

Archives prior to 2007 have been lost.  Shed no tears, they were terrible.

• Mozilla and XULRunner archives (from the Flickr days)

Talks

• 2013-02-19 — Node.js at Betable at Node.js ++ (Serverside Javascripters) Club SF
• 2012-02-25 — Developing Operability at SuperConf
• 2011-09-29 — Blueprint: configuration management for busy people at RubyConf (video)
• 2011-09-14 — Blueprint: configuration management for busy people at SF Python Meetup
• 2011-08-23 — Blueprint: configuration management for busy people at SF DevOps Meetup
• 2011-04-28 — Extending Puppet at Puppet Camp EU 2011
• 2011-03-24 — Why is configuration management software written in Ruby? at Ruby on Ales (with video at 1:12:07)
• 2011-03-11 — Dependency Management with Puppet at PyCon (long form with video)
• 2011-01-11 — Extending Puppet at Silicon Valley Puppet Meetup
• 2011-11-17 — Dependency management with Puppet at SF Django Meetup (with video in parts two and three)
• 2010-11-11 — Dependency management with Puppet at Carbon Five
• 2010-11-10 — Dependency management with Puppet at SFPython
• 2010-10-14 — Securing and Extending Puppet at Strange Loop 2010
• 2010-10-07 — Securing and Extending Puppet at Puppet Camp 2010
• 2009-09-29 — Dependency management with Puppet at SFRuby
• 2009-06-23 — Building OpenDNS Stats at Velocity 2009

Links

The Internet, as curated by yours truly.

Projects

• Blueprint — reverse-engineer server configuration
• Goagain — zero-downtime restarts in Go
• Errforce — utilities for working effectively with Go errors and UNIX errnos
• Gimme Servers
• Git Paid — the programmer’s time tracker
• puppet-pip — Puppet provider of Python packages via pip merged into Puppet 2.7
• debra(1) — tools for building Debian packages superseded by FPM
• Freight — a modern take on the Debian archive
• doubledown(1) — sync local changes to a remote directory
• The open source Flickr Uploadr
• OEmbed (beer is the one true Internet standard)