Blogs

Last weekend I ran the Cambridge Boundary Run half marathon for the first time. Nice course, very flat and although some of it was off-road for the most part it wasn’t too muddy.

Looking for a change and a challenge, I joined the Broxbourne Rowing Clubs Learn to Row course last October.

In the Michael Connelly books, Detective Harry Bosch often talks about the importance of momentum when working a case.

A few weeks ago my wife and I ran the Takeley 10k. Was a nice route along the old railway line, and almost all off road, though still quite flat and even. Thankfully well shaded, as it was a pretty hot day.

One of the talks at the recent London DevOps meetup was about Habitat, a new product from Chef.

Thinking about how your master dataset is stored and managed is arguably the most important part of architecting a data-driven system. Your master dataset is your source of truth. An issue here, be it hardware failure, human error, or something else, could easily result in irreparable damage to some or all of your data.

Some photos from my day visiting the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Cutty Sark.

First I headed to the Observatory, walking up the hill to get there.

Update: I’m now using BitBucket Pipelines instead.

Since moving this site to S3, I have been using a post-commit hook to deploy it with s3cmd, which looks like this:

I’ve recently starting making my own Granola. It’s really easy, much healthier than shop bought Granola (no added sugar!) and I can make it exactly how I want it.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that whilst moving my blog to S3 I hit a hard limit of 50 redirects, meaning I would break some URLs if I made the move.