Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I seem to recall first being introduced to MOSH after I saw a link to it in my RSS feed, and almost simultaneously in my work's developer mailing list (where people tend to post about new and interesting technologies). People were literally losing their shit over it (well, ok, not literally) and declaring they would never use anything but MOSH ever again. I may be dramatising somewhat.
It's…
At $employer today, we had our bi-weekly tech talk session and one of the lightning talks given was on tmux. Tmux is an excellent piece of software (although I gave up on it and started using iTerm2) but that's not what I wanted to talk about.
One of the other participants in the session noticed the presenter's
shell prompt had a little smiley/frowney face which changed both
expression and colour depending on the exit code of the last command -
how cool is that? How many times have we all typed echo $? just to
find out if our…
I think I will call this week the last I use shell script as my primary go-to language. Yes, by trade I am a systems administrator but I do have a Bachelor of Computer Science degree and there is a dormant programmer inside me desperately trying to get out. I feel like shell script has become the familiar crutch that I go back to whenever faced with a problem, and that is becoming frustrating to…
Quite a while back, I had to migrate a few terabytes of data from one machine to another. Not that special a task, and certainly a few terabytes is not that much but at the time it was a reasonable amount and even over 1Gbps network it can take some time. Fortunately it was not time critical and I could take the server in question down for a while to facilitate the migration. The data in question…