Apr 8, 2015 · 4 minute read · Comments
Coding
I’ve been running Ubuntu Desktop on my desktop machine at home for a few years now (I put together a great system in January 2014). Just recently, in November 2014, I switched my work laptop from a retina MacBook Pro to a Dell XPS 15 (High DPI w/ touchscreen: amazon.com ) running Ubuntu Desktop 14.04. For some reason, I prefer Linux to OS X, I guess I’m weird, heh.
The screen on this model is a 3200x1800 touchscreen, and text looks just as good (if not better) than the retina MacBook does at max DPI.
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Jan 5, 2015 · 10 minute read · Comments
Music
Another year down, another year where my only post is about my favorite records. Fitting.
This year didn’t have nearly the volume of great records that was bestowed upon us in 2013, but there was still an abundance of quality stuff to go around. There’s quite a few surprises in here. Get on with it!
Spoiler alert: I’m still looking for a contender to Yellow & Green for “Album of the Decade.
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Jan 9, 2014 · 10 minute read · Comments
Music
I listened to quite a lot of new music this year. Lots of metal, a bit of hip-hop, a ton of retro / psychedelic stuff. A lot of REALLY BAD garbage.
These are all the albums that stuck with me somehow. Mostly, these are the albums I played more than once. Overall, I’d say 2013 was one of the best musical outputs of any year this century (so far). Here’s my favorites…
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Nov 30, 2013 · 1 minute read · Comments
Coding
I’ve started playing around with a Raspberry Pi recently. It’s pretty slick, but there are a few gotchas I’ve run into, particularly regarding wifi.
I’m using a Model B Raspberry Pi which came with a USB wifi dongle, since my TV and router are not in the same room.
With raspbmc, it asks for your ssid and passphrase, but with an image like raspian, you have to configure the settings yourself.
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Sep 24, 2013 · 5 minute read · Comments
Coding
At Mediafly we have been using Puppet for a lot of our configuration management. While it does the job, it’s a little opinionated and a little more complex than I’d like.
I’ve been using Salt a lot lately outside of work and I love the simplicity. I’ll save my opinions for another post, but I guess if I’m writing about it that means I enjoy using it, right?
In conjunction with that, we’ve also been experimenting a lot with Docker.
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