For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning how to juggle in my spare time (and a bit at work). The act of juggling itself is surprisingly easy, so I learned how to juggle in about 2 hours one afternoon, since then I’ve been learning how to juggle well, which is much more difficult.

Some time ago I found myself captivated by watching another developer work. Not anybody that I work with or know in person, but the infamous Notch. Throught some twist of fate I stumbled across a live stream of his and spent a non-trivial amount of time watching boxes and code fly by in Eclipse.

Today the organizers of PuppetConf released an “almost complete” list of speakers and talks for this year’s PuppetConf in San Francisco, guess who’s on it?

Just over a week ago I returned from a trip to Tokyo for the Jenkins User Conference 2012 - Tokyo. I attended the summer Developers Summit and a Jenkins hackathon while I was in Tokyo, but JUC 2012 was the main event.

This past week I hosted a cookout at my place, and cooked a lot of (in my opinion) good food. Most of the recipes that I used were from one of my favorite food blogs: Food Wishes with the always charasmatic Chef John (aka Chef Juan).

I received a forwarded email which was passed around members of my extended hillbilly family.

Last week I discussed some ideas about how to apply some BDD concepts to operations, primarily the “outside-in” approach.

For quite some time I’ve been using Tor for a number of things, but my most recent use revolves around a lesser-known feature Tor provides: Hidden Services.

Update: I’ve posted the update to this post here which contains some code and more fully fleshed out ideas

As the Lookout code-base grows, both in individual repositories but also in the sheer number of repos we maintain, I’ve found it often difficult to find what I’m looking for.

“Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.”

I’ve been working on Hub board off and on for the past couple months, and I finally think it’s ready for some more broad beta testing.

I’ve neglected cross-posting some of the articles I’ve written over the past month or so for the newly inaugurated Lookout Hackers blog. The generally idea of the Hackers blog is to give Lookout Engineering a bit clearer of a voice and an avenue to publish blog posts on things that are nitty-gritty and technical.

DEATH TO VIRTUALBOX

For a long time I’ve been a staunch supporter and happy customer of Sonic.net, the scrappy Bay Area internet service provider that has recently started kicking ass, laying fiber, and embarrassing bigger ISPs.

For an upcoming internal tech-talk that I will be giving titled “Amber: Smalltalk in your browser, or, Tyler is a hypocrite.”

Recently I’ve been experimenting with operating a live coding stream of my desktop. What this means in practice is that I focus on a single project or set of tasks for an hour or two, while streaming everything I do to my channel on justin.tv.

Earlier this week, my only grandfather died.

Since the Jenkins update center is taking a little bit longer to propogate the release of the Vagrant plugin for Jenkins, I figured I’d create a little demonstration for you.