Blog Posts

• 05 Jan 2022 » Deep Dive: Text Encodings
• 05 Jan 2022 » Trying out dev.to
• 25 Jan 2021 » The Horrors of Partial-Identity Encodings -- or -- URL Encoding Is Hard
• 19 Dec 2020 » Software Development as Surfing
• 02 Dec 2020 » Taskcluster's DB (Part 3) - Online Migrations
• 30 Oct 2020 » Taskcluster's DB (Part 2) - DB Migrations
• 28 Oct 2020 » Taskcluster's DB (Part 1) - Azure to Postgres
• 06 May 2020 » Debugging Docker Connection Reset by Peer
• 22 Aug 2019 » Outreachy Round 20
• 31 Jul 2019 » CODEOWNERS syntax
• 19 Nov 2018 » Elementary Bugs
• 18 Oct 2018 » Eight Years at Mozilla
• 22 Aug 2018 » Introducing CI-Admin
• 15 Jun 2018 » Actions as Hooks
• 21 May 2018 » Redeploying Taskcluster: Hosted vs. Shipped Software
• 17 May 2018 » PyCon US 2018 Wrapup
• 01 May 2018 » Design of Task-Graph Generation
• 23 Feb 2018 » Internship Applications: Make the First Move
• 19 Jan 2018 » Taskcluster Redeployability
• 25 Dec 2017 » FRustrations 1
• 08 Dec 2017 » Parameterized Roles
• 12 Oct 2017 » Table Stakes
• 27 Jul 2017 » Taskgraph Optimization
• 01 Jul 2017 » How Big Projects Fail
• 22 Jun 2017 » Taskcluster Manual Revamp
• 04 Jun 2017 » PyCon US 2017 Wrapup
• 31 May 2017 » TaskCluster-Github: Post Comments and Status Live!
• 09 Feb 2017 » TaskCluster-Github Improvements
• 04 Dec 2016 » Connecting Bugzilla to TaskWarrior
• 01 Sep 2016 » Adapting Users to Our Interfaces
• 03 Aug 2016 » What's So Special About "In-Tree?"
• 20 Jul 2016 » Recovering from TaskWarrior Corruption
• 17 Jul 2016 » Chapter in 500 Lines or Less
• 29 Apr 2016 » Loading TaskCluster Docker Images
• 07 Mar 2016 » TaskCluster Login: Credential Management
• 22 Feb 2016 » TaskCluster Login: Now With LDAP!
• 14 Dec 2015 » Taskcluster Security Exercise
• 27 Nov 2015 » Remote GPG Agent
• 02 Jul 2015 » Ad-hoc Tasks in TaskCluster
• 22 Jun 2015 » More time with Mercurial
• 04 May 2015 » Hg Workflow
• 30 Apr 2015 » New Tooltool in Production
• 17 Apr 2015 » Webmock
• 06 Apr 2015 » Tooltool Reimplemented
• 27 Mar 2015 » Pretty IPSets
• 24 Dec 2014 » Git Utilities
• 23 Dec 2014 » Kombu and SQS
• 18 Oct 2014 » Four Years at Mozilla
• 02 Oct 2014 » PuppetConf Talk: Infrastructure as Software
• 29 Sep 2014 » fwunit: Unit Tests for your Network
• 17 Jun 2014 » Buildbot Nine Merged to Master
• 16 Jun 2014 » Introducing RelengAPI
• 23 May 2014 » Threading an SSH Agent Through Screen
• 29 May 2013 » Oops, I partitioned my drive..
• 15 Apr 2013 » 910 Days at Mozilla
• 29 Mar 2013 » Locking SSH keys on sleep on Linux
• 25 Oct 2012 » Documentation for MDT's CustomSettings.ini
• 16 Sep 2012 » Google Dependency..
• 13 Sep 2012 » Building a partitioned log table
• 12 Jun 2012 » Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain
• 07 Jun 2012 » Wireless Data in Belgium
• 19 May 2012 » Trapped in Google?
• 09 May 2012 » TIL about SSL certificate chains
• 17 Mar 2012 » Setting up a buildslave instance remotely on OS X Lion
• 17 Nov 2011 » IT and Community
• 02 Sep 2011 » Subscribe to a google group with a different address?
• 20 May 2011 » Nagios NSCA from Python
• 22 Jan 2011 » Amanda's Transfer Mechanisms
• 11 Nov 2010 » virtualenv for Perl
• 10 Nov 2010 » Firefox 4.0b7 - a few tweaks
• 22 Oct 2010 » irssi settings for status-in-nick
• 16 Jul 2010 » IPv6 and Amanda
• 10 Jul 2010 » SSH With Snow Leopard
• 08 Jul 2010 » What's New in Amanda: The End of Fragmentation
• 01 Jul 2010 » What's New in Amanda: Hackability
• 27 Jun 2010 » IPv6 Configuration
• 17 Apr 2010 » LCD Display and TMP102 sensor
• 12 Apr 2010 » Modern Multiprocessing
• 12 Apr 2010 » Want to work on Amanda?
• 25 Mar 2010 » What's New in Amanda: Postgres Backups
• 25 Mar 2010 » Happy Ada Lovelace Day
• 22 Mar 2010 » Talk: Twisted Introduction
• 15 Mar 2010 » Solving an Encoding Mystery
• 12 Mar 2010 » What's New in Amanda: Transfer Architecture
• 12 Mar 2010 » What's New in Amanda: Automated Tests
• 17 Feb 2010 » Testing Legacy Code
• 13 Feb 2010 » Revising the allowForce option
• 30 Jan 2010 » Charlieplexing: watch your voltage levels
• 23 Jan 2010 » 2005 Mac Mini as an Arduino Development System
• 22 Jan 2010 » Object identity in Perl
• 17 Jan 2010 » A future for Svnmerge?
• 30 Dec 2009 » Underhanded C Contest
• 21 Dec 2009 » GCC warnings
• 12 Aug 2009 » Users and their Motivations
• 03 Aug 2009 » Class in open-source projects
• 01 Feb 2009 » git prompt addition
• 02 Dec 2008 » roll back a git-svn mirror
• 31 May 2008 » More girls + math
• 11 May 2008 » Building an 'Organic' open-source community
• 22 Apr 2008 » Ohloh
• 18 Feb 2008 » Girls and Math
• 07 Feb 2008 » Retroactive Unit Tests
• 12 Jan 2008 » Safari's Web Inspector
• 24 Dec 2007 » Programming Contests and Puzzles
• 19 Oct 2007 » Perl vs. Python
• 06 Sep 2007 » Open-source contributors
• 05 Sep 2007 » Chicago Coffeeshops
• 16 Jun 2007 » Open-Source Support?
• 24 Apr 2007 » Programming Challenge: Sudoku Generator
• 23 Apr 2007 » Improving svnmerge
• 08 Apr 2007 » Are we really smarter?
• 06 Jan 2007 » Old, old code
• 06 Jan 2007 » This should go away!
• 11 Dec 2006 » Map of IPv4
• 06 Dec 2006 » 'Teaching Problem Solving: You Can and You Should' (Elizabeth Zwicky)
• 06 Dec 2006 » USENIX LISA