Did you know?the inventor of the (computer) keyboard died in 1890 the inventor of the (computer) mouse was born 1925 The keyboard as a concept for operating a machine was around for at least 35...| Things.
(Post title shenanigans alert!) This is a quick note for a few seemingly-simple issues about how clojure interops with java. And how I was surprised by it. Again. I'm also hoping it's useful...| Things.
I made some notes about how to start an open-source infrastructure-as-code project. Here is the first bit of that in blog form. This post deals with step-0 decisions on how to set up a new...| Things.
… today I jumped off of a perfectly good bridge. Download IMG_7198.mov| Things.
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Keep it simple: It's cheaper and easier to carry around. Do one thing at a time: Multitasking is a lie. Network: You were born to connect. Say what you mean; nothing is truer than the truth. ...| Things.
I have three siblings. All of my brothers are siblings. 2 of my siblings have two brothers each. One of my brothers only has me as a sibling.| Things.
I've been invited to speak at devopsdays 2018 Cape Town on the 20th of September 2018. My talk will be about Hashicorp's nomad, a job schedule. Here are my conference slides for future...| Things.
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You got the kind of control you wanted. That’s to say where you had a loving relationship with the world, but you didn’t have to make up your mind as to what is should do. You let it decide. ...| Things.
Context Yesterday my friend and colleague Husayn had to write Yoda on the whiteboard in the office and he spelled it with a J, like in Joda. He is from Cameroon. As a group of engineers, we...| Things.
I’m putting this link up so I’ll read it again in the future. Wisdom hides in these words. Keywords: distributed systems complexity organization building systems thinking...| Things.
I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost and life will take its leave in silence drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night and morning rise...| Things.
I got this from a whatsapp group I belong to. OMG. A child drew this. I can believe. 🙏🏼| Things.
My calendar has an entry in it. One that I’d forgotten about because I entered it almost 10 months ago. Day of Enlightenment. Ugh. What hubris! Let’s take stock. Let’s me navel-gaze. This...| Things.
Here’s the main thrust of the idea: In the game I’m playing, the civs that have high religion don’t have great armies or good science. They are very high on religion though so there’s lots of...| Things.
(Not the Rich Hickey talk, which is excellent, and can be found here.) I saw this next bit on Seneca Systems’ recruitment site: Why Have Values? Out of timber so crooked as that from which...| Things.
FIRST STEPS =========== - What am I trying to do? - Has it been done before? - Does it have a name? -- Programming Buddha| Things.
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Ok, hi!, I’m Pieter, I’m a human. I haven’t been posting in a while, because bloooooog. ugh. Firstly. Shout-out to the guys on #devops on zatech’s slack channel. Cobus is an awesome dude and one...| Things.
When the student is ready the master appears I am finding myself drawn, more and more, into my latent spirituality. Everything is connected. There is no beginning and there is no end. However,...| Things.
Come, Blessed One, we pray Thee, roll the wheel of the dew-sweet Law – which is excellent in the beginning, excellent in the middle, and excellent in the end! – Lotus Sutra It is a great...| Things.
The Nature of Mind No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never...| Things.
At first we did not come here clothed, finely adorned, with money in our pocket and with provision to travel. When we came into this unknown place, where we knew no one at all, we had nothing...| Things.
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I have been doing naughty things at great speed on the various highways that we have here in Cape Town. My recent purchase of an over-powered and over-powering "Commuting Bike" has been causing me...| Things.
Ven Fifth Minyak Rinpoche visits Cape Town Kagyu in the beginning of August 2016. Here is a link to the Cape Town Kagyu website with the details of the program. I also went ahead and created a...| Things.
Do you remember the Sandra Bullock movie Gravity in which all kinds of shit goes down in space? Turns out, that actually happened. But it wasn't actually Sandra Bullock, it was one NASA astronaut...| Things.
