Eixir: Radpath -> A library inspired by Python's enhpath.py
Have not been spending a lot of quality time with Python these days, rather have been trying my hand at being a polyglot and trying out a few of them new languages over the horizon...
View ArticleElixir and breakage on Travis
Development on Elixir is still moving at break neck speed and currently they have bumped up their Erlang version to support RB17-r1 for the map support.There is a lot of delicious goodness that will...
View ArticleRe-look at circleci
Recently got an email from circleci.com announcing that they were changing some of their pricing models effectively making OpenSource projects free to run on circleci. Well let me just directly quote...
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Re-look at circleci part duex a review ?
One great comment from part 1 of this post is the fact that circleci does not really support parallelism like they promised for Open Source projects.Finding no information on any searches on how to...
View ArticleLinks and app finds of the week
Links of the weekAfter having a child, I joined the scores of parents around the world grimacing when checking out the rising prices of children books, so this link was a god send:bookdash.orgEasy way...
View ArticleReviewing the code review
Lots of software development based companies do code reviews, yet for the most part I find that code reviews more of a laugh than anything, well at least how it's done in the formal company setting....
View ArticleAnsible experiment aka a review of my time using Ansible for building our...
I have been playing around with Ansible and using it as a foray for Continuous Deployment. Few things I have read about Ansible is true:It's easy to read and get started on. Within minutes you can get...
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Easily staying afloat on High Sierra
Whenever I use Mac I always miss "Always On Top" functionality for my windows. Don't ask me why up until today MacOS stubbornly refuses to add this functionality. Afloat is the closest I have found to...
View ArticleDay 2 of 7 days of fasting
Day 2 (48 hour mark)Feeling: There was a fair bit of back pain at about 11 am to 3 pm but after that it went away. I don't feel any hunger. Today I am doing a dry fast. - Tiredness: None just don't...
View ArticleDay 3 (72 hour mark)
Day 3 (72 hour mark)Feeling: There is still back pain but less and foot today felt very tender during barefoot morning run. - Tiredness: Energy level is better today.- Weight: 171kg Waist: 31 inches
View ArticleDay 4 of water fast
Feeling:Feel okay today energy level goodWeight:70kgRemarks:Cotton mouth very pronounced today and mouth feels dry although water intake was increasedLipid profile (After 3 days of fast):Total -...
View ArticleDay 5 of water fast
Feeling:Feel okay today energy level good. Strangest part all of the days I don't feel any hunger at all during morning hours.Weight:69 kgRemarks:Cotton mouth gone, pain at the side of the ribs remain...
View ArticleDay 6 of water fast
Feeling:Feel okay today energy level good. The damn side stitch was quite bad todayWeight:69 kg - weight seems to have stalled.Remarks:Cotton mouth no more. Felt very "empty" at the end of the day and...
View ArticleWill you never find it ?
Came across this warning article when reading my mail: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/application-red-flags. The problem is, not one thing written there I noticed about the last job except that I was...
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A new year and new challenges
It's a new year already. I have this uncharacteristically made some promises to myself. I have set a goal this year to read more, 20 books more to be exact. The promise was solemnised in the goodreads...
View ArticleDevOps for corporate ?
Implementing a DevOps strategy with your army of one team is most of the the time easy. It's just dependent on the sweat on your brow. A matter of experimentation, glue the pieces together push it out...
View ArticleThe Human in Devops
What was significant this week ?This week a mild epiphany came to me right after a somewhat heated and tense meeting with a team of developers plus project owner of a web project. They were angry and...
View ArticleSome of the things I did not anticipate ...
Here are some of the things that I did not think to anticipate when tasked to implement a DevOps pipeline:The humongous sized enterprise grade software such as RTC (Rationale Team Concert from IBM) and...
View ArticleHow do you run inspec.io on Solaris without killing yourself ??
We are using inspec.io for our post deployment verification / checking strategy. When I evaluated inspec, I really like a few things about it:It had a small toolchain and good support for various...
View ArticleTime here is ending ?
Time here with my team after so long (coming to 3 years), looks like is inevitably coming to an end. Am I pissed ? Damn right I am. We are kind of paying the price of someone's insecurities, he...
View ArticleSome things to stop doing
Here are a. few things that I am going to try my best to stop doing:How some relationships can stand in the way of success or goals no matter how much the person that is allowing it to happen says...
View ArticleKoan-ing around
In what I do daily, unfortunately I spend more hours than I care for in very uneventful meetings. You know those kinds that when you go to you either get dismissed for what you say or you end up...
View ArticleWhy for some it's the end while others it's a challenge ?
Today I started thinking about how challenges to certain people appear as roadblocks while others they are just challenges and is a problem to solve. I thought it was will power, vision and some...
View ArticleThat one where I almost lost my life but ended up rolling over a 5 year old...
You know when they ask you in interviews "What is your most embarrassing mistake" ? Well I always lie and mutter something that I think they want to hear and a false cringe on the face to add dash of...
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Ruminating on ordered delivery
A new outlook now in a much more supportive environment, got much more time to think the magic of getting a group of people to perform and deliver on planned goals. In short, life just got real and my...
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