Category: Dancing Engineer
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Finally Some Good News
Something’s whack with the last version of the database on godaddy. All the site is wiped. I haven’t managed a shower yet. My teeth are wearing a sweater. And I might feel some regret over posting that picture of me with hairy armpits online. Everything is better with a catling on your lap. Also music…
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I Can Do This
Today I’m rebuilding groningenrain.nl for the second time. It was hacked. There were pharmaceutical ads all over the site. Sometimes replacing the entire site from the index out; sometimes only specific posts. Sometimes entire tags were replaced. It was ugly. I called godaddy, my hosting provider, and they said the damage was extensive and to…
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Your LEGO Order Has Been Shipped
In preparation for the Red Hat Summit this week and OpenStack Summit in a week, I put together a hardware demo to sit in the RDO booth. I know, I know – the title has LEGO in it and now I’m talking tech. Bait and switch, AMIRITE?!? I promise it’s relevant. So I put together…
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It’s Called Hope. I Haz It.
The phrase of the day seems to be ‘in the meantime’ cause i used it repeatedly for the May 2018 RDO Community Newsletter. Well, three times. I used it three times. Thankfully, I have an excellent editor. Okay, a persistent editor. Okay, a LUCKY editor. FINE. I’m the editor. And I’m super lucky that I…
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Cause We About To Open A Flood
I haven’t been posting on groningenrain.nl but I have been trying to write every day. I read about ‘morning pages’ once long ago and incorporated it into my daily practice. And then I stopped. And then I did it again. And then I stopped. It’s definitely been off again on again for years. But since…
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Get Ready For More Of This Crap
You can totally tell that I posted yesterday’s post when I was in a groove. Or. You can tell now? And this morning when I woke up at NINE cause I totally SLEPT IN one of the first things I thought was, “Oh, damn, I have to remember to write. And post it.” Damnit. The…
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Wait Weight Don’t Tell Me
There are more than a few reasons why I haven’t been posting on here, most importantly, really, is #TWINS. Obviously. And the other thing is that I got out of the habit. Also, obviously. But less obviously is that I’ve been recovering from All The Complications ™ and one of the things that happened is…
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Rocky Road Ice Cream, People, The Best Ice Cream Obviously
Grab your spoons, people, the first milestone of OpenStack Rocky has come and gone which can mean only one thing! RDO Test Days! RDO is a community of people using and deploying OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At each OpenStack development cycle milestone, the RDO community holds test days to invite…
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Very Pleased To Announce DevConf.IN
Are you an OpenStack RDO user, developer, administrator or operator who wants to explore the wonders of Bangalore India? Want to know more about OpenStack, Centos, Ansible, Gluster, Kubernetes and MySQL and how they can all fit together? The wait is over! DevConf has come to India!
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Tackling Talker’s Block With a Sledge Hammer
(V will be so happy that I’m starting this post this way…) I was listening to a podcast the other day. Specifically, the Tim Ferris podcast featuring Seth Godin who talked about so many amazing things like how he makes honey vodka and his obsession with chocolate and that if you’d like to tackle writer’s block, write every day. And…
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All Your Repos Are Belong To Us
Today (and tomorrow) are the RDO Mitaka Test Days in Brno, Czech Republic and I spent a few hours this morning catching up on the tripleo quickstart live demonstration video and the rest of the day bashing my head against the packstack sanity checks for RHEL 7.2, CentOS 7.1, and Fedora 22. And I took awesome notes. To share with you.…
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Change is Terrifying. Do it Anyway.
On Saturday, 05 March, I am one of the keynote speakers for Django Girls den Haag. Hi. My name is Rain Leander. Welcome to Django Girls den Haag. Today I’m going to talk about programming – what it is, why you should do it, what you can do with it. I’m going to tell you my…