Shell

After the announcement a few weeks back that Apple would be defaulting to zsh in macOS Catalina I decided to take the plunge and make the switch on my current machines. I have tried making the switch once before, but for one reason or another I ended up reverting back to Bash. ...

Its been quite a while since I wrote up what I am using on day to day, in fact, I seem to have skipped all of 2016. Desktop Apps Not too much change on the Desktop … Visual Studio Code; I started off the year Atom, but this gives me the same functionality and seems quicker ...

All of the posts on orchestration on here have been about Puppet on CentOS however last week I had need to script an AWS architecture and then launch instances built with Packer into it. After much swearing I managed to hack together a python script which used Boto to create a launch configuration and register it with an auto-scaling group, I then used a second script which re-cycled instances behind the Elastic Load Balancer which were launched with the previous launch configuration. ...

It’s been a while since I listed what I am using day-to-day so I thought I would do a quick update; Desktop Apps SublimeText — Text Editor GitHub Mac Client — The Mac GitHub client Marked2 — Preview Markdown in real-time ...

Sysdig looks like it could be a useful addition to a sysadmins list of tools, it is described as; Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. ...

As part of work I have to install Magento with its sample data a lot for proof of concepts, while the installation is simple it can quickly become a chore. Because of this I have started to use n98-magerun. It can be installed using the following commands; ...