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Background I have been quite the sceptic about the adoption of AI for the past three or so years.

Our hot water system stopped hot watering on Christmas Eve.

Route The route was brilliant.

Haslemere to Reading Last day!

Reading to Haslemere I left the hotel in the light rain, which caught me by surprise because the forecast had been good so far.

Malborough to Reading I was originally going to get dropped back in Avebury and continue from there, but family logistics and some trepidation from the previous day meant that I skipped the first climb of the day to Barbury Castle.

Preface King Alfred’s Way is a 220 mile circular off-road route that takes in the iconic sights of Stonehenge, Avebury stone circle, the Ridgeway, and South Downs Way.

I went looking for a new keyboard for a few reasons.

Late last year I converted this blog from Octopress to Hugo and migrated it from a Linode VM to AWS S3, in an effort to spend less of my free time maintaining dependencies and virtual machines.

This post is about building the Boldport Cordwood Puzzle Too which is described as: The puzzle is to correctly assemble the circuit with the components at hand.

This post is about building the Boldport Cuttle which is described as: The Cuttle is a bare-bones Arduino-compatible soldering kit.

There are two patterns that I’ve come to really appreciate when testing Go code that uses libraries to access third-party APIs.

Cloud Foundry uses git submodules in cloudfoundry/cf-release to track dependencies from other repositories such as cloudfoundry/gorouter.

I recently attended two conferences; Lead Developer and Operability.

I recently had problems with the online services of two well known companies; Nationwide and Eurostar.

A couple of years ago at Velocity Europe conference I saw a keynote presentation by John Wards called “An introduction to Code Club”.

It was February four years ago that a friend and ex-colleague (in that order) of mine committed suicide.

The more appropriate title would be “ingress and egress firewalls that affect your connectivity but which you have no visibility and limited control of” but it was too long.

We’ve gone through a period of time in our team telling each other not to work outside of office hours.

A while ago we upgraded ClamAV at $JOB from an fpm package of dubious-quality to an upstream Ubuntu package.

tmux scrollback If you regularly use tmux then you might have a line like this in ~/.tmux.conf: set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@' The effect of this is that when the output of the inner terminal exceeds the terminal’s height it is allowed…

Something occurred to me a while back when I was setting up some monitoring.

Github’s recent outage and nicely detailed post-mortem has generated a bit of chatter about whether “too much automation” is a thing and the dangers thereof: Xaprb: Is automated failover the root of all evil?

In a previous article I described the process of creating CentOS AMIs in EC2.

A friend recently reminded me that IPv6 is still a thing.

I use/mirror a number of third-party Yum repositories.

I’ve been doing some work on AWS EC2 again recently.

I was attempting to install a package on Linux Mint using chef-solo when I was greeted by this rather strange error: [Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:53:26 +0000] INFO: Processing package[openssh-client] action install (ssh::client line 1) [Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:53:26…

In the name of practising-what-you-preach, I like to be in the habit of configuring my Linux workstations with Puppet in the same way that I do for servers.

I have been an occasional user of RVM to date.

Sometimes 140 characters just aren’t enough.