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 7, 2016. archiving here as no longer pushing on Medium. So I’ve been programming in Python on and off for what must be close to 15 years now. However until the start of this year it’s all been odd side projects for useful tools outside of work. Now I’m writing Python automation code for the StackStorm platform as a increasingly large part of my day job.

First post in ages, last weekend we visited the National Museum of Scotland and I took the camera (and used it) for once. Power

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.

So installing Ubuntu onto an 2006 Mac Mini (macmini1,1) is really hard, mainly down the bugs in EFI preventing booting of USB sticks or CD’s that are available for download from Ubuntu and this Mini not 64 bit CPU but 32 bit! So things to remember: This mac mini is x32 and not an x64 CPU! So do download the right image! Install rEFInd (this is really important) Follow these instructions to create an USB stick.

So I’ve been using Apple’s Aperture photo management and editing application since just after I got an SLR in 2007. So it was with great sadness I learned last year that it would be going away and replaced with Photos (along with iPhoto). So I need to find another photo management & editing product or just give in and use the new Photos for everything. Which I don’t really want to do as I very much like the power of Aperture to make the most of photos shoot in RAW.

Today on Twitter I noticed that fryguy_pa posted the following yesterday. The @sergeantclip worked nice. Was glad to finally use them. — Jeff (@fryguy_pa) January 24, 2015 This is the Sergeant Clip which looks like something really useful for the networking tool bag. In fact I’m going to order both a 6 and 12 port versions tonight. Update 2020-11-11: Yes it did look useful, but by this point I had moved on from Networking and never used it in anger until it went in a clear out post moving last month.

I was half way towards completing CCNP Security when they announced the retirement of the current exams and I did not have the enough time to complete study for SECURE prior to the last day to test. Given that old exam passes expire after 3 years and my ASA Security specialist certification expires after only 2 years, I have to pass the remaining 2 new exams before Nov 2015 and no later than Jan 2016 to keep a Cisco security certification without having to to sit further 2 exams.