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About the Lookout Hackers Blog
I've neglected cross-posting some of the articles I've written over the pastmonth or so for the newly inaugurated Lookout Hackersblog. The generally idea of the Hackers blog isto give Lookout Engineering a bit clearer of a voice and an avenue to publishblog posts on things that are nitty-gritty and technical.A... read more
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Introducing Blimpy, a cloud thing
DEATH TO VIRTUALBOXPhew, okay. With that out of the way, let me tell you aboutBlimpy; a tool that I have writtento make working with "cloud" machines easy as pie.
As much as I love my Thinkpad, it's not really suited to heavy virtualization.Despite... read more
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Today's Meatspace Hack
I always delight in finding clever little solutions to real world problems thatI have, the image below is a good example.I walked inside from our front door and noticed that there was a bit of coolair coming through the door frame. Unlike our last apartment, which simply hadpiss-poor insulation, this... read more
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Breaking up with Dane
For a long time I've been a staunch supporter and happy customer ofSonic.net, the scrappy Bay Area internet serviceprovider that has recently started kicking ass, laying fiber, and embarrassingbigger ISPs.As of this past Sunday, only half of that is true. After a few happy years of Sonic.netDSL, I had to... read more
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My bio according to Thomson
For an upcoming internal tech-talk that I will be giving titled "Amber:Smalltalk in your browser, or, Tyler is a hypocrite."Thomson, an esteemed colleague, tech talk organizer, and by far the hardestworking Filipino I know, sent out the following bio attached to the meetinginvite:A decorated veteran of two wars (the Korean... read more
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Live Coding with ffmpeg and justin.tv
Recently I've been experimenting with operating a live coding stream of mydesktop. What this means in practice is that I focus on a single project or setof tasks for an hour or two, while streaming everything I do to my channel onjustin.tv.Here's a boring demonstration:Watch live video from Live coding... read more
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You funny guy
Earlier this week, my only grandfather died.He had lived a rather long time, and was ready for a rest, so nothing to reallybe sad about.I did want to share some anecdotes about my last visit with him:Anecdote 1While my wife and I were hanging out in the hospital room with... read more
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Vagrant plugin for Jenkins in action
Since the Jenkins update center is taking a little bit longer to propogate therelease of the Vagrant plugin forJenkins, I figured I'd createa little demonstration for you.The demo is from a running development environment I have locally, but once thev0.1.2 version of the plugin is available in the update center,... read more
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Introducing the Vagrant plugin for Jenkins
Look! A screencast of the plugin inaction!The impossible has happened. Not only have I written a plugin for Jenkins, I'vereleased it. An event I've long avoided has finally come to pass, mostlythanks to the fantastic Ruby plugin developmentsupportdeveloped largley by Charles Lowell.The Vagrant plugin is still fairly new, and... read more
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Master Logician
Shortly before departing forFOSDEM, I dropped my car at themechanic's to fix an engine issue. Some number of weeks later, I finally wasable to pick the vehicle up today, fully repaired and ready to undergo furtherdamage at the hands of yours truly.Earlier this week I called the shop, after not... read more
