Day 2! I hopped around quite a bit, so I'll just talk about the talks I particuarly enjoyed. First was a talk about site reliability at Pinterest. The main things I thought that were interesting was how they have also created their own deployment tool, and that they've made it …
Today was day 1 of the linux.conf.au conference in Geelong. The first two days are organized as "MiniConfs", where rooms have a general topic and presentations are scheduled by the MiniConf organizer instead of the LCA programme committee. In the morning I primarily attended the documentation/technical writing …
I upgraded to Fedora 23 last night, and it went pretty smoothly.
I started with sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23, which started with a fun dowload of 2.5G of package upgrades (still better than Xcode!). I ran into the documented upgrade issue with the vagrant package, but the …
Today I spent two hours setting up an SSL certificate with Lets Encrypt for the wikiconferenceusa.org website.
It. Was. Easy. It was relatively straightforward, and I felt comfortable with all the steps I went through.
First, I cloned the git repository, and ran the letsencrypt-auto script, which installed the …
As part of using only free software, I also started thinking about the various non-free services I am dependent upon. One of those I had already started working on replacing was Github. Github is currently the canonical source location for a lot of my various projects, including some that aren't …
Wow, two blog posts in one day. Okay, I was close and just didn't finish in time.
As the title alludes, I became an FSF member today yesterday. Aaand then I proceeded to buy their Super Sticker Mega Multi Pack. ^.^
I thought this would also be a good time to …