I am Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin
There is a long and fraught history in Bitcoin of claims and counterclaims about who Satoshi is. I might as well confess that he is me. I come forward at this time because Craig Wright claims to be...
View Article10 git aliases I can't believe you don't have already
It makes me sad to see people type more than they have to. With these aliases, you reduce the 4 most common commands to 2 letter abbreviations: git config --global alias.co checkout git config --global...
View ArticlePreview a chapter of our new book in acmqueue magazine!
The new issue of acmqueue magazine contains a preview of a chapter from our next book, the 3rd edition of TPOSANA. This issue contains a preview of a chapter from our next book, the 3rd edition of...
View ArticleFuture directions for Blackbox
I maintain an open source project called Blackbox which makes it easy to store GPG-encrypted secrets in Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and others. I've written up my ideas for where the project should go...
View ArticleAugeas: Updating of config files without ruining comments and formatting.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could write a program that could reach into an Apache config file (or an AptConf file, or an /etc/aliases file, Postfix master.cf, sshd/ssh config, sudoers, Xen conf, yum or...
View ArticleAn Honest Job Advertisement
Imagine if job advertisements were completely honest. Most companies advertising for IT workers would state that the job is mostly great except for twice a year when ``hell month'' arrives and everyone...
View ArticleLISA Conversations Episode 10: Clay Caviness and Edward Eigerman on "Managing...
Episode 10 of LISA Conversations is Clay Caviness and Edward Eigerman, who presented Managing Macs at Google Scale at LISA '13. Watch the Episode here: LISA Conversations Episode #10 with Clay Caviness...
View ArticleNYLUG: Two meetings this month! (Foreman! Unikernels!)
Two meetings this month. Both at different times and locations. Be sure to show up at the right time and place! Mon, June 6, 2016, 7PM (new date!) Topic: Foreman latest updates: Puppet 4, remote...
View ArticleNext on LISA Conversations: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the...
Our next guest will be Russell Pavlicek. We'll be discussing his talk from LISA '15 titled Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel. Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at...
View ArticleNew appearances announced: VelocityNYC & PuppetConf!
I'm excited to announce that I'll be speaking at Velocity NYC and (for the first time) at PuppetConf! Velocity NYC, October 19-22, 2016, "Teaching DevOps to Ops without Devs (and so can you!)", Please...
View ArticleSave 20% off Velocity NYC registration!
Don't miss Velocity NYC, Sept 20-22. There are a lot of great talks scheduled... including one that I'll be giving! You can save 20% off registration! Please use this link and then use code AFF20.
View ArticleReminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: Russell...
This weekend is a good time to watch the video we'll be discussing on the next episode of LISA conversations: Russell Pavlicek's talk from LISA '15 titled Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel....
View ArticleWatch us live today! LISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on...
Today (Tuesday, June 28, 2016) we'll be recording episode #11 of LISA Conversations. Join the Google Hangout and submit questions live via this link. Our guest will be Russell Pavlicek. We'll be...
View ArticleLISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of...
Episode 11 of LISA Conversations is Russell Pavlicek, who presented Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel at LISA '15. Watch the Episode here: LISA Conversations Episode #11 with Russell Pavlicek...
View Article"The Martian" made me depressed
Have you seen/read The Martian? What's so sad about the movie/book is that it is a reminder of what could have been. Part of the premise is that after the Apollo program, the U.S. continued their plans...
View ArticleSurvey on easy of use for configuration management languages
I'm reposting this survey. The researcher is trying to identify what makes configuration languages difficult to use. If you use Puppet/Chef/CfEngine/Ansible (and more importantly... if you DON'T use...
View ArticleI'll be speaking at NYC SRE Meetup next week (Wed)
I'll be giving a new talk called "Teaching DevOps to Ops without Devs" at the NYC SRE Tech Talks meetup, Wednesday, August 17, 2016, from 6pm to 8:30pm, at Squarespace's offices in the West Village (8...
View ArticleAutomating a CI environment for Android Apps
One of the things my team at StackOverflow does is maintain the CI/CD system which builds all the software we use and produce. This includes the Stack Exchange Android App. Automating the CI/CD...
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USB cables should be "charge-only" by default
Every sysadmin knows that you can protect a server though cryptographic or other means, but if someone has physical access "all bets are off". Right? With physical access they can do physical damage...
View ArticleSurvey: What makes joining a new team difficult/easy?
The last time you joined a new operations/devops/sysadmin team, what make it easy or difficult to get started? For example... if procedures aren't documented, it can be very difficult to know how to...
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