2018

Setting up wee-slack

Installing the prerequisites

First, we need to install the base weechat binaries. I like the aspell plugin to be enabled in Weechat, so I’ll …

Remote Working Roundtable

I was recently invited to participate in a DaaS/Remote Working roundtable discussion at UKFast. I’m not sure I could add anything much on DaaS; …

Personal VPN Setup

I feel the need to start this post with something impactful about industrial-scale data capture and the weaponsiation of software exploits; this would …

Recursively updating S3 bucket permissions

If you want to recursively apply a permission to an S3 bucket (for example, to add the public-read permission), then you can use the aws CLI tool to …

Listing ElasticBeanstalk applications with the aws CLI tool.

You can easily list EB applications in your default AWS account with the following query.

$ aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications --query …

How To Fire Someone

Don’t hide the message. Be direct and begin with the reason: “I have bad news, you are being let go due to X”.

Make eye contact as you do …

Django coverage reports without unit tests

I was recently working on a Django project which had a lot of development effort spent over a wide range of features which never made it to launch. We …