Michael Twomey

Overcomplicating Things for Fun

Overcomplicating Things for Fun

I mentioned in passing I did something fiddly for fun: I've built the world's most over-complicated thermometer using a @Raspberry_Pi + Sense Hat + Kinesis Firehose + AWS Lambda + @HostedGraphite — Michael Twomey (@micktwomey) October 23, 2015 While that tweet pretty much sums up what I did I thought

Stuff of Interest to Mick, July 2015 Edition

I figure it's always funny to list things that currently interest you and then laugh at yourself a few years later. So here's my July 2015 selection: Programming Languages * F# * Rust * Elm * Go * Clojure Lots os hip new languages there, so far I've probably

Mesos & Django (and Aurora and CircleCI too)

I gave a talk at Python Ireland about using Mesos, Django, Aurora and CircleCI together for deployment bliss. These are some of my notes. Mesos & Django (and Aurora and CircleCI) from Michael Twomey Setting up First follow the Aurora Vagrant instructions to set up Aurora. This gets you a

A Chain of Amusing Events

Yesterday CircleCI had probably the worst outage I've ever seen from them (I still thoroughly recommend them, at the very least you can answer the question "Do we have to do anything to fix this?" with "No, someone else's problem"). From the

Ad blocking with /etc/hosts

This is an old trick, but generating an /etc/hosts file with dummy entries for common ad / spam / "marketing" sites is a really efficient way to block them from all browsers. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ has a nicely maintained list mapping thousands of sites to 127.0.0.