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Docker containers are awesome little throwaway environments. Often I like to jump into a container to test something out, like installing a project from scratch, swapping runtimes without needing a version manager, or trying something new without gumming up my base system. It’s

So you’ve spun up a fresh Linux Workspace [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-linux-workspaces/] and discovered in short order that it is ugly as sin. Fret not, this is as configurable a Linux machine as any — but in different ways than you

Amazon WorkSpaces [https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/] are virtual desktops in the cloud. As designed, they’re an office sysadmin’s dream: a simple thin client, integration with Active Directory, and the ability to rebuild WorkSpaces from scratch with the click of a button.

Quick tip for those of you who have just discovered a pip package you’d like to fix or otherwise contribute to. sudo pip install -e . This command installs the pip package in an “editable” way (in fact, -e is the short form of

I’m starting on some new projects soon, projects I would very much like to be stateless and highly available. Partially because I like to think of myself as a grown-up developer now who wants to code things the way they ought to be;

WebM is probably the future, but like all things containing the word “web,” there’s an element of nuance and surprise that emerges while working with it. VP9 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9] is supported pretty much everywhere that matters — even Edge manages

If you’ve tried updating suckless.org’s Simple Term, st, and run into this error: In file included from x.c:61: config.h:180:42: error: ‘iso14755’ undeclared here (not in a function) { TERMMOD, XK_I, iso14755, {.i = 0} }, ^~~~~~~~ make: *** [Makefile:22:

I have a few deeply held beliefs when it comes to software. * If you do something more than twice, it should be automated. * It’s always DNS. [https://isitdns.com] * Build your code in containers. Even AWS and I seem to agree on that

After spending some time working in AWS Cloudformation [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/] and running cfn-lint [https://github.com/awslabs/cfn-python-lint] manually, I decided to incorporate it into my Emacs config. Here’s a basic cloudformation-mode for DOOM Emacs [https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs]

inotifywait is a handy utility that listens for filesystem events you specify and prints them to standard out. This is particularly useful if, say, you want to automatically redeploy a website whenever something changes. (Jekyll comes with this functionality out-of-the-box, but if you have