Thanks to GNU Terry Pratchett on CloudFront by Adam O’Grady. I’ve quickly added a x-clacks-overhead HTTP header (link) to my blog using AWS Lambda@Edge. “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” - Going Postal, Chapter 4 prologue This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now, but something I could not achieve with my old blog hosting site. x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Now I need to turn my manual Lambda functions, into some IaC deploy via serverless and configure terraform to pick up the latest version and write to cloudfront.

This was originally published on Medium on May 22, 2016. archiving here as no longer pushing on Medium. So I think my Python is improving for sure. In the last couple of weeks I’ve used new style objects, properties, and setters to create objects to hold Orion node data. In short, applying what I read at the start of the year in Fluent Python. However, more importantly I feel up to the challenge of addressing the lack of support for turning on SSL verification, and using Request-Mock for unit testing with the orionsdk module.

Been a long time since I posted anything on this blog, should really take more photos and publish more. This is one of the photos I took almost a year ago in Portmeirion and only just got round to uploading to Flickr. However it has replaced this photo in one of the frames in the lounge.

I’ve retired my old website (www.ixtab.org.uk), as this blog has been my main internet presence for a number of years. Very few of the old posts got migrated to wordpress. If you came here via a bookmark (or a link somewhere), it may be best to update it to the Home page. Updated 2020-10-10: Migrated from my previous blog and slightly updated.

I got some very good news in the post this morning (well it turned up for a start). After weeks of waiting I got the letter informing me that I had passed the ITIL Foundation v3 exam, which I sat on 27th September. Really happy about this as I started reading about ITIL some time in May this year, just before I learned about version 3. All in all I think it’s a good improvement over version 2 and well worth doing.

Over the weekend I read Peoplewear: Productive Projects and Teams (2nd Edition) by Tom deMarco & Timothy Lister. It’s a really good book on how to run development (and projects) within a company, which focuses on the people and environmental issues more than technology. Even though the original edition is now 20 years old (and the second is 10 years), it has not really aged that much (other than talking about COBOL) and still makes a lot of sense.