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11 Aug 2022
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
29 Jun 2022
A plausible alternative
19 Apr 2021
Does 125 hours of mindfulness work?
18 Jan 2021
Apple HomeKit invite fails with apparently no reason
14 Jan 2021
Postfix error cannot open file: Permission denied
05 Jan 2021
8 Tips For Better Video Meetings
04 Oct 2020
5 books, part 5: Into the Woods by John Yorke
26 Feb 2020
5 books, part 4: Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
05 Feb 2020
5 books, part 3: Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
17 Jan 2020
5 books, part 2: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
16 Dec 2019
5 books, part 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
09 Dec 2019
Build better companies, teams and products with inspiration from these five books
03 Dec 2019
A data centric approach to patching systems with Ansible
04 Jun 2019
Hardware bootstrapping with Ansible
13 May 2019
Going back to a laptop
05 May 2019
iPad Pro vs laptop, three months in
26 Feb 2019
Migrating the runbook: a journey from legacy to DevOps
10 Nov 2016
My slides from IPExpo London
09 Oct 2015
Simplicity - the art of automation
25 Sep 2015
Testing Ansible roles
21 Jul 2015
My talk and slides from IPExpo Manchester
21 Jun 2015
Managing VMware vSphere guests with Ansible Tower
06 Mar 2015
Simple service discovery using Ansible Tower and DNS
26 Dec 2014
My slides from DOXLON talk
19 Dec 2014
The Rules
30 Nov 2014
Ansible for Puppet users
26 Aug 2014
My slides from London Splunk User Group talk
23 Jul 2014
Defining 'DevOps'
19 Jul 2014
My slides from DevOps Cardiff talk
12 Jul 2014
Five tips for Ansible newbies
27 May 2014
Logwatch output to NFS with SELinux
12 Jan 2014
Atlassian Bamboo Install with Ansible
21 Dec 2013
The route to DevOps simplicity
10 Nov 2013
Rapidly provision Jenkins on AWS using Ansible
10 Nov 2013
Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible
01 Oct 2013
Analysing Amazon S3 logs with Splunk
15 Sep 2013
Running Splunk 5 behind Nginx with SSL and auth
09 Sep 2013
Perl::Critic and Modern::Perl
18 Aug 2013
Vagrant Splunk Box
31 Jul 2013
A Linux kickstart helper in Perl
27 Jul 2013
Using iPXE with a URL to kickstart Linux
15 May 2013
Perl LWP 'error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure'
22 Nov 2012
The simplicity of Perl Mojolicious for web get extractions
04 Oct 2012
VMware Perl SDK error 'Server version unavailable..'
17 Nov 2011
Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard
27 Feb 2011
Patching a live Solaris 10 system with LU, ZFS, and PCA
03 Mar 2010
Stuck as 'scheduled' Wordpress posts
14 Aug 2009
rm -rf on Solaris ZFS filesystem doesn't remove directories
24 Apr 2009