Building a (mostly) reliable research assistant

• 2026.04.24
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• Dan Maher
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• 43 min read

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Easily keep your local git repo up to date

• 2024.07.12
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• Dan Maher
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• 5 min read

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Presentations and videos

• 2020.11.17
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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Observability as code: dashboards

• 2020.09.10
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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Devopsdays Berlin 2018; recap

• 2018.09.18
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• Dan Maher
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• 8 min read

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So long, and thanks for all the fish.

• 2016.11.15
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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Genesis: Terraforming a New Home for Firefox Crash Reporter

• 2016.03.24
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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Handling extant resources in Terraform

• 2015.01.27
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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Sysadvent 2014: What Sysadmins can learn from Community Management

• 2014.12.09
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• Dan Maher
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• 15 min read

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Devopsdays Belgium 2014; recap

• 2014.11.04
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• Dan Maher
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• 5 min read

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DevOpsDays Paris 2013, the event that was

• 2013.04.23
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• Dan Maher
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• 5 min read

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hangops, european edition

• 2013.04.05
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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HAProxy Puppet module (phrawzty remix)

• 2013.03.18
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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LCA, the event that was

• 2013.03.11
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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How to use Puppet like an Adult

• 2013.02.15
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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Puppet at Mozilla, the podcast

• 2012.09.20
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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quickly generate an encrypted password

• 2012.02.12
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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Elasticsearch backup strategies

• 2011.11.22
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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Send your logs to the cloud; Loggly vs. Papertrail

• 2011.11.17
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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Heavyweight tilt : GitHub vs. Bitbucket

• 2011.11.08
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• Dan Maher
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• 6 min read

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Improvements in Cassandra 1.0, briefly stated

• 2011.11.03
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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Nagios plugin to parse JSON from an HTTP response

• 2011.03.04
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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RabbitMQ plugin for Collectd

• 2011.02.24
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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how to use the Distributed Numeric Assignment (DNA) plug-in in 389 Directory Server

• 2010.04.20
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• Dan Maher
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• 4 min read

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CPAN RPMs in RHEL / CentOS : generation, conflict, and solutions

• 2010.04.08
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• Dan Maher
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• 9 min read

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workaround for slow shared folders in Virtualbox 3.x

• 2010.01.29
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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how to deal with broken time zones during a CentOS 5.3 kickstart

• 2009.12.01
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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load balancing, or, « how i learned to love a piranha »

• 2009.10.21
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• Dan Maher
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• 26 min read

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it's coming !

• 2009.10.12
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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where to specify ethtool options in Fedora

• 2009.08.25
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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(complex) partitioning in kickstart

• 2009.08.03
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• Dan Maher
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• 9 min read

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getting Dia to give you a pdf

• 2009.07.16
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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pohmelfs pt. 2, return of pohmelfs !

• 2009.07.06
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• Dan Maher
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• 8 min read

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setting the from address in GNU mail

• 2009.07.03
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• Dan Maher
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• 2 min read

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pohmelfs update

• 2009.07.01
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• Dan Maher
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• 1 min read

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force disk geometry with sfdisk

• 2009.06.22
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• Dan Maher
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• 3 min read

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pohmelfs - the network filesystem of the future !

• 2009.06.17
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• Dan Maher
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• 15 min read

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how to be properly lazy, with perl !

• 2009.06.12
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• Dan Maher
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• 4 min read

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initrd, modules, and tools

• 2009.06.10
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• Dan Maher
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• 13 min read

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