As Operations Engineers, we often overlook the user experience of tooling in favour of functionality. CLIs end up with vast sprawling seas of flags and nested commands requiring a minotaur to traverse. Now, I believe that ChatOps is the best path to giving independence and control to everyone in the company. This post is going to talk about why we rebuilt our ChatOps from scratch and what I learned along the way about UX, people and myself.
In part one of this series, I talked about my early weeks as an SRE at Hosted Graphite. After jumping […]
Onboarding a new hire is a tricky process and can be very difficult to get right. I’ve worked at/with companies […]
This blog post is based on a talk I gave at SREcon18 EMEA. If you’d like to see the slides […]
Recently there was an issue with particular dedicated hosts having network issues due to high traffic triggering a known bug […]
A lot of puppet configurations recommend using puppet’s tidy directive to manage puppet reports. The problem with this though is […]
A client recently asked to be able to put time-sensitive “flags” (badges) on products for showcasing that products were “new”, […]
Both full machine virtualization and containers have their advantages and disadvantages. Full machine virtualization offers greater isolation at the cost […]
I’ve been continuing work on Netsoc’s public user-facing server Leela. Previously, we’d relied heavily on using /etc/skel to properly layout user […]
In my final year of college, I got swept up in creating Twitter bots and tools. As a result, I […]
Sometimes, running an always-on program is important and there a lot of moving parts to move around in order to […]
Originally posted on Feb 2nd, 2017 for UCC Express. “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’” – Alan […]
Originally posted on 20th Feb, 2017 for The UCC Express. Up, down, left, right, jab. Up, down, feint, feint, jab. […]
Originally posted on Feb 23rd, 2017 for UCC Express. Every year, the European Commission, the EC, publishes reports, studies and […]
Originally published on April 25th, 2012 when I was 17 years old. I haven’t changed anything about it to suit […]
Jaysus, this one took me ages to understand. I spent so long doing all sorts of things to get it […]
After a lot of googling, I couldn’t find a solution to my problem. I finally figured it out and have decided […]
In work today, I noticed a distinct lack of solutions for uploading multiple files through the ‘media_handle_upload’ function. Since it assumes that […]
Nearly every summer since I was 16, I’ve been working at some form of tech company. I’ve worked at hosting […]
(FYI: this example assumes you know some basic SQL) There are three main ways that you connect to a MySQL […]
Ingredients 6 rashers bacon 6 slices bread 6 tablespoons mayonnaise 8 lettuce leaves salt and pepper 2 slices cooked turkey 2 tomatoes, thinly sliced Cooking Instructions Cook the […]
(Plus 4 hours marinating) Ingredients 500 chicken breast, cut into slices ready-made satay sauce, to serve Marinade: 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1 […]
Ingredients 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed. 150g mushrooms, halved or quartered if large 2 teaspoons mild chilli powder […]
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 500g beef mince 1 onion, chopped 2 carrots, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 teaspoons mild paprika 1 teaspoon ground cumin 415g can […]
Ingredients 375g spaghetti 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1-2 dried red chillies, finely chopped salt and pepper Cooking Instructions: […]
Ingredients 150ml olive oil 750g potatoes, thinly sliced 1 large onion 1 red pepper, cored, de-seeded and sliced 1 green pepper, cored, de-seeded and sliced […]
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons olive oil 2 large red oinions, thinly sliced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 teaspoon mustard 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar […]
Ingredients 250g rice noodles 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 3-4 spring onions, sliced thinly diagonally 2.5cm piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped […]
Ingredients 250g long-grain rice 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 carrots, chopped 1 large potato, chopped 2.5cm piece of fresh root ginger 2 garlic cloves, crushed 150g cauliflower florets […]
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon chilli powder 2 tablespoons water […]
Graphs Simple Graphs Are ordered pairs (V, E) where V ∈ A set of all Vertices E ∈ A set of […]
On linux machines, there are a couple aliases I like to make just so everything runs a little smother and […]
What is a variable? A variable is like a custom-made box. It can only hold one thing at a time […]
A function is a list (or “block”) of instructions that can be “called” in a PHP script to execute them. […]
Ingredients 300g tofu 175g egg noodles 150g frozen peas 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 bunch of spring onions, sliced 300g pack mixed stir-fry veg (shredded cabbage, […]
Bhí gach rud foirfe i dteach Lisín. Bhí sí lánsásta le gach rud – A fear céile Pól, a mic […]
Tháinig bean óg go dtí an stáisiún traenach sa charr lena máthair. Bhí ar an seanbhean dul go dtí an […]
Bhí Jimmy ag ól lena chairde i dteach tabhairne i mBéal Feirste. Smaoinigh sé ar a bhean chéile álainn ag […]
Bhí lanúin óg ina suí cois tine tráthnóna amháin. Bhí an páipéar ag Seán, ach bhí a bhean ag iarraidh […]
A short summary for the Irish prose Dís aimed at Leaving Cert students. Bhí lanúin óg ina suí cois tine […]
A short summary for the Irish prose Gnáthrud aimed at Leaving Cert students. Bhí Jimmy ag ól lena chairde […]
A short summary for the Irish prose Cáca Milis aimed at Leaving Cert students. Tháinig bean óg go dtí an […]
A short summary for the Irish prose Hurlamaboc aimed at Leaving Cert students Bhí gach rud foirfe i dteach Lisín. […]
