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.

Look! A screencast of the plugin in action!

Shortly before departing for FOSDEM, I dropped my car at the mechanic’s to fix an engine issue. Some number of weeks later, I finally was able to pick the vehicle up today, fully repaired and ready to undergo further damage at the hands of yours truly.

I was fortunate enough to give a talk in the “Configuration and Systems Management dev room” this year at FOSDEM.

As I previously mentioned, I’ve been learning Smalltalk lately, in an attempt the understand the language that inspired two of my other favorite languages: Objective-C and Ruby.