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Chef is used in my place of work, and so as a result I started learning Ruby programming language.

Chernobyl has screened on Sky Atlantic over the last few weeks. It represents a dramatic representation of the disaster back in 1986, which for a lot of people, is still in living memory.

I have bought a Fujitsu Snapscan S1301i scanner - mainly because it is duplex - it saves a lot of time and will scan directly to Evernote.

MySQL replication is a good thing to have. It provides greater resilience and removes a single point of failure. By following these steps, you will create a replica of a master server, acting as a permanent backup in the case of a DR scenario.

Autofs is a way of auto-mounting devices to a running system. Theses steps will walk through enabling it on an Archlinux system.

Terraform is a cloud orchestration scripting language. This allows the capturing of cloud infrastructure.

I use org-mode an awful lot - it helps me manage my tasks and code all in one place.

If you’ve been using Linux for a few years, you’ll probably remember that 100MB for a /boot partition was no problem.

Sunday involved a train ride to bath with a Brompton in fold, and then cycling around the Two Tunnels circular route. A quick stop at The Hope and Anchor pub to avoid the sleet and get a quick half-way coffee, is highly recommended.

Amazon Web Services allows you to spin up instances very quickly. This how to will show you how to upload your content to a S3 bucket and then launch an instance that pulls that content in and starts Apache to serve that content.