I realized the blog was getting a bit crusty around here, so I cleaned up a few pages. I've put as many of the MUG presentation videos as I could up in the projects page, and added the slides for the Penguicon Presentations from 2015 / 2016. I'm probably going to …

Finally upgraded to Pelican 3.7.1. Had a few issues related to summary fields in the feeds. If something doesn't look right please let me know. Thanks!

This past weekend my computer showed an ominous error:

Jan 1 04:06:16 lister mdadm[8317]: RebuildFinished event detected on md device /dev/md/0, component device mismatches found: 9856 (on raid level 1)

Huh, that doesn't look particularly good. Mismatches between drives tend to lead to bad things …

Feeling a little left behind at the moment. Checking job sites will do that for you.

Most of the jobs that I'm seeing have moved beyond scripting for the day-to-day work and use it as administrative glue. So Python / Perl are seen as the tools for making sure the backed …

I discovered a site called Code Wars which I'm going to use to help me learn JavaScript and tighten up my programming in general. So I signed up and played around with one of the Katas on the site.

One of the things I noticed on the site was that …