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Code | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python. December 26, 2013. Digital Ocean has been an excellent way for me to spin up test Ubuntu VMs for testing my expanding collection of PPAs, build scripts, and various other bits and pieces. While I do stack testing with kitchen, chef, vagrant, and frequently AWS, it is really nifty to be able to boot a fresh VM on […]. Musical floppy drive maintenance – flop.py. April 6, 2013. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Followup: Success.
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Programming | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. May 11, 2013. In the startup world, it’s common to talk about “pivoting” a business; that is to say, taking what you are doing and refocusing on some aspect of the opportunity you hadn’t spent a lot of time on before. We aren’t all founders, though. Today, coders have a lot of options when it comes to what […]. January 14, 2013. Software developer located in Cork, Ireland. Authored The Noflake Manifesto. I run wthax.org. And co-founded Ireland's first anime convention, EirtaKon.
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Move slow and fix things.
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Move slow and fix things. In Support of the Outrage Machine. July 27, 2014. In Rage Against The Outrage Machine, published by The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf industriously picks apart the umbrage taken against an article by George Will published in The Washington Post titled, “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.” In his article, Will puts forward the notion that colleges are “conferring privilege” (Will’s words) – perhaps in the […]. The (Web) Skills of Leonardo da Vinci. July 21, 2014. In the...
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Technology | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Shuttering EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl. March 23, 2013. Update (24th March) Stop your engines! The response has been amazing, in 24 hours we’ve managed to crawl almost everything, and are processing the final few batches now! No need for more instances! I’ve created a tool to help people who decided to fire up a whole bunch of spot instances slowly trim down their […]. Reading list for scaling Solr. November 30, 2011. August 20, 2011. July 28, 2011.
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Configure Before You Boot
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The Kubernetes native platform (v2). The Package manager for Kubernetes. Configure Before You Boot. In the previous post in this series, we learned how the pets vs. cattle metaphor. Teaches us a new way of approaching cloud server architecture. Instead of unique pets which require constant, individual care, we focus instead on cattle which are identical, homogenous units that can be added. And removed with ease. Cattle servers are, in other words, fungible resources. CTO of Piston Cloud. We write down, b...
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Ross Duggan - Part 2
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Move slow and fix things. Newer posts ». Using gems to package polyglot CLI tools. October 25, 2012. Just in time for Halloween! A true horror, but with a sort of tortured beauty. How (and why, WHYYYY? You can annex one of the ruby community’s most pervasive technologies to distribute your filthy, heathen, non-ruby code. If you want to get some software in front of a bunch of developers, rubygems are a delicious low hanging fruit. The only problem, really, is that it’s pretty much expected that...Another...
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Programming is not my idea of “fun” | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Shuttering EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl ». Programming is not my idea of “fun”. March 18, 2013. My motivation for learning to code was that I wanted to build things; not just anything, either, stuff that solved a problem I or someone else had. I don’t necessarily enjoy programming. For the sake of programming. Which seems to be unusual amongst a lot of developers I talk to. That might mean a lot of frustration along the path to that point. It mig...
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Starting with Arduino (Musical Floppy Drives!) | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Receive.js – simple mocking of remote HTTP requests. Cloud vs Metal Infrastructure ». Starting with Arduino (Musical Floppy Drives! April 10, 2012. First, a confession. With that disclaimer out of the way, the idea of mucking around with Arduino has been stewing in the back of my head for a while. Arduino. Is an open source, hobbyist computer hardware hacking platform, and can be used for anything from automated plant feeding. To powering remote control aircraft. Including the a...
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Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. The (Web) Skills of Leonardo da Vinci ». Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python. December 26, 2013. Digital Ocean has been an excellent way for me to spin up test Ubuntu VMs for testing my expanding collection of PPAs. Build scripts, and various other bits and pieces. While I do stack testing with kitchen, chef, vagrant, and frequently AWS, it is really nifty to be able to boot a fresh VM on the cheap with Digital Ocean, test, nuke, and repeat. Pontoon droplet cre...
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Pivoting yourself | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Musical floppy drive maintenance – flop.py. Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python ». May 11, 2013. In the startup world, it’s common to talk about “pivoting” a business; that is to say, taking what you are doing and refocusing on some aspect of the opportunity you hadn’t spent a lot of time on before. We aren’t all founders, though. Love if they gave it half a chance. If you can acquire the patience and empathy to understand other people’s problems, you unl...
