I recently got my anonymous peer feedback at work. None of the negatives were surprising, though the positives were pretty uplifting. Shortly after I got that feedback, I read a blog post on things a person wished she knew earlier in her career. "Reliable is better than brilliant... After observing ... more…

I find myself in a state where I have many projects that people ping me about regularly. I am very into all of them and would love if I could dedicate to each of them time that they deserve. This posting is mostly an enumeration of those projects and what ... more…

I've spent the last week hanging out in Silicon Valley for PyCon as well as to hang out with my co-workers. This year's experience was very different from the previous years, which I can probably attribute to a couple things. First, I drove down with my friend and ... more…

So this last weekend I wrote a tool named pytmux. It is a basic session builder/wrapper around tmux so you can get going faster when you start up your system. It uses a JSON based config files, is pretty minimal right now, but I hope to make it better ... more…

About a year ago, some friend and I were talking about each getting servers then going to a local data center and getting a third of a rack. There was lots of excitement but unfortunately most of us weren't in a position to purchase the needed hardware at the ... more…

I am currently debating between two different ways of dealing with publishing new posts. On one side I have a really simple fabric file that lets me publish from any of my OS X or Linux systems. On the other side I am considering setting up my weblistener from ZenIRCBot ... more…

So one of the things I wanted to do with my blog is to have Tech, Life, and SC2 under their own domains so I can link to just that domain when things are specific. It was actually surprising easy to do this, just a simple nginx rewrite rule and ... more…

So, I haven't been blogging lately because I've been meaning to scrap my Blogger setup and move to using Pelican. Part of the battle was getting a theme that made me happy, the other part of the battle was sitting down to actually make things happen. First off ... more…

Getting involved is something I've blogged about a few times on here. Each time has been a pledge to get more involved in the open source community in different ways. I am more involved now than I have ever been previously. I feel comfortable finding an issue in a ... more…

I just learned about a project that is rather exciting to me: Julython. If you are looking for an excuse to write some python, this is a great one.The idea is to commit at least a little bit every day of July on a python project, preferably one that ... more…