Category: tech

  • Playing with Yeoman and Grunt

    I’m a very old-fashioned developer and I’ve been staying away from grunt, gulp, yeoman and other JavaScript tools. As a sysadmin, the entire Node.JS ecosystem, frankly, terrifies me. When the recommended install method for your language is…

  • Better Problem Definition

    I’m a core developer on [CKAN][1] at Open Knowledge, the most widely used data catalog software. Early this year, we released version 2.2 of CKAN with a complete overhaul…

  • Fossmeet 2014

    On January 24, I got an email from the Speakers Team at FOSSMeet asking me if I would be able to propose a talk. Fast forward to Feburary 13th, I was on…

  • Quick Tip: Ansible Debugging

    Today I learned something about Ansible debugging from benno on #ansible. Occasionally, commands can get stuck, especially if it’s waiting for input. You can’t fix this until you recognize what’s going on and see the prompt. In other words, you want to see the stdout and stderr on the target machine. Here’s what you do:…

  • UDS-M Day 5

    Phew, finally I get down to writing day 5 overview, a few days after UDS. Generally, I write the previous day’s blog post on the next day. After day 5 though, I had to get work (yeah, on a Saturday). On Friday, I decided to tackle my power trouble by going outside for the hours…