Josh Barratt's Blog

Forming and Evolving Teams with TeamOS Jun 27

What are the limits of serverless for online gaming? Mar 10

Minecraft Server in Docker: Adulting Made Easy Feb 7

Two Years with the Oculus Quest Jan 20

Monitoring Power with Prometheus Jan 17

Building a Multiplayer Game with API Gateway+Websockets, Go and DynamoDB Sep 9

A Pen Plotter at STEAM night Mar 12

Effective Technical Diagrams Feb 12

Taking Back New Tabs Sep 25

Make-ing Mermaid Aug 13

Making a Smarter Smart Thermostat with Go, Lambda, and SAM Jun 6

Envoy + Custom Auth + Ratelimiter Example May 28

Designing Systems with The Magic Box Feb 7

Experimenting with AWS's new a1 instances, using awless Dec 12

A workflow for sharing Markdown (with images!) Nov 28

Generative Laptop Skin Jul 15

Making Bacon with Golang Jul 10

Really Serverless Databases Jul 5

Finding Feeds 3 Ways Jun 1

DIY Analytics with GoAccess Jul 3

HTTP Load Testing with Vegeta (and a dash of Python) Jun 24

Improving 24x7 coverage through visualization Jun 23

Maximizing Performance with Cloudfront, S3 and Hugo Jun 7

JSON Feed, and an even more static blog Jun 7

Moving from Nikola to Hugo Jun 6

This blog now powered by Hugo Jun 6

DIY Dynamic DNS with Route 53 Aug 2

The Serverless Tool Nobody Talks About Jul 25

How I Use an Electric Pressure Cooker Jul 18

TaskPaper + Vim + Dropbox + Editorial = GTD & Checklist Perfection Jul 4

Using docker-compose for local development with AWS services May 21

Stopping Docker Containers in a hurry May 20

Fully Automated Python Package Releases Sep 4

Telling Technology Stories with IPython Notebook Sep 2

Mining your IPython Notebooks with nbgrep Jul 23

Quick Curated Podcasts Jul 10

Herding IPython Notebooks Feb 27

An Argument for Containers, featuring Docker Oct 28

Nikola and Livereload, dynamically editing a static site Apr 23

Instantly finding a headless Raspberry Pi Apr 18

Updated Octopress to Nikola guide and tool Apr 17

Simply generating self-signed SSL Certs with Ansible Apr 17

Moving from Octopress to Nikola Mar 26

10 Years of Comedy ... Something Or Other Mar 26

Live Sphinx Documentation Preview Jan 30

Local Python CI with Watchdog and Nose Sep 13

A simple Taskwarrior Alfred Plugin Sep 5

Migrating from Trello to Taskwarrior Sep 4

Debugging Python Tests Aug 29

Using R and `ggplot2` to Contemplate Relocation Feb 13

Screencasting Presentations With Screenflow Nov 18

Going Fast With GMail's Keyboard Shortcuts Nov 16

Using Ogres to Improve Your Designs Oct 21

An Iteration of the Lean Meetings Concept Sep 28

Getting more Signal from your Noise Feb 24

Testing Perl code that runs commands Sep 22

Up-Up-Updated 'Inbox Zero with Mail.app' Technique Sep 6

Why using packages makes sense in a configuration management world Sep 1

Deploying self-contained Perl Dancer applications Aug 30

Relaunched blog, sorry for any dust. Aug 29

Notes from my Jekyll Migration Aug 29

Capturing short-lived programs on Linux Jun 14

Instantly share local directories with 2 command lines Jun 11

Optimal web-sized identifiers May 14

Quickie: Keeping my OSX downloads folder clean May 4

Getting around tmpfs 'noexec' problems Mar 16

Adding iSCSI exports to OpenSolaris for remote Time Machine Mar 15

Using custom functions in Puppet templates Jan 1

Updated "Inbox Zero with Mail.app" technique Dec 2

Standard Deviation with Arduino Oct 24

Great WordPress Plugin: WP Widget Cache Oct 24

Questioning Coffee Geeks with Science Oct 19

local::lib: Better perl when you don't have root. Oct 19

FlickrPress now available: Turns Flickr RSS to Wordpress Posts Oct 16

Testing perl system interactions Oct 6

Help me suffer for charity! Sep 9

Puppet Module Patterns Jul 13

So much to say, so little time to say it! Jun 18

Great meal at Providence Apr 29

Wordpress Plugins and external services Apr 15

Managing volatile files with puppet Apr 15

Handy cooking technique: the supersweat Apr 15

So sick of keys Apr 13

Embroidered lab coat fun Apr 12

Editing puppet files with vim: now with 'quickfix' support. Mar 31

DTrace on OSX: incredibly useful. Mar 21

No pullup bar Mar 6

My approach to Inbox Zero with Mail.app Mar 5

The littlest Thumper: OpenSolaris NAS on an MSI Wind PC Feb 26

Getting an OpenSolaris bootable USB drive Feb 24

Useful Electronics: Cat Accident Preventer Feb 23

Useful Firefox Addon: Tree Style Tab Feb 16

How to catch up on a 100-something-challenge Jan 17

At the hospital, waiting to become a dad! Jan 10

100 Burpee Challenge: PDF Calendar Jan 7

Permanently converting from textile markup Jan 6

Everybody's blogging it so why can't I: Frequently used Mac Apps Jun 29

Slowing down songs on the Mac May 28

Scootering to work is awesome. May 8

Transparently rating iTunes tracks with Quicksilver Apr 23

So much to learn, so little time. Apr 18

I try to tell myself this won't be me someday. Apr 5

The most 'are you serious' moment of the year Jan 3

Interesting hacking around in python, OSX, and the iTunes Library Jan 1

Scary times with my mac (and a fix!) Dec 26

Awesome perl module for sending mail Nov 2

Quick LAME tip: concatenate mp3's Sep 24

Great looking Data Mining course Aug 7

Final trip stats Jul 31

Eastern Vacation Journal, Monday July 23rd Jul 26

Eastern Vacation Journal, July 24 - July 26 Jul 26

Eastern Vacation Journal, Stats Update Jul 25

Eastern Vacation Journal, Wednesday, July 18 Jul 24

Eastern Vacation Journal, Tuesday, July 17 Jul 24

Eastern Vacation Journal, Sunday, July 22 Jul 24

Eastern Vacation Journal, Monday, July 16 Jul 24

Eastern Vacation Journal, Sunday, July 15 Jul 17

Eastern Vacation Journal, Saturday, July 14 Jul 16

Migrating live filesystems to LVM Apr 4

strfry() Mar 19

WiFi Madness Mar 16

Smoky Caramel Quesadilla Mar 9

Cat Logic Feb 25

Quick Hack: Charge-only USB Cable Jan 19

Fighting Cholesterol Dec 1

Carbonasia Nov 8

1,000,000 calories Oct 21

First meal in a new kitchen Sep 1

Quick iced coffee Aug 7

Exploring the world with GPS Aug 1

Breakfast of Champions Jul 23

Britannia Rules Jul 18

Recent Food Notes Jul 2

I love you Viking, but goodbye. Jul 2

Upgrading from FC1->FC4 Jun 15

Changing Gears May 25

Oak Tree in our Apartment May 3

vim and CVS todo lists Apr 28

perl one-liner; 'randline' Apr 20

The new 'comic book' thing Apr 18

Private RSS Feeds Apr 18

features, features, features Apr 12

You can learn from my mistakes! (Peanut Meatballs) Apr 6

Home-based hard drive recovery success story Apr 5

w00t, mammoth! Mar 29

Neat idea: Tracking Packages with RSS Mar 22

Great Cookbook: Eric Gower's "The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen" Mar 22

Dear Feed On Feeds: I love you. Mar 7

Better Kitten Portrait Mar 7

Xnest remote KDE desktop Feb 28

Audio Van Eck Phreaking Feb 28

Stephenson Google Memewatch Dec 27

Serious rsync timesaver Nov 22

Forget Pumpkin Pie. Nov 22

Lazy Perl stopwatch Nov 10

Why do I get spam from Zombies? Nov 3

Zaurus Woes Sep 28

Awesome Salad: Butternut/Feta/Arugula Sep 28

Outbound SMTP blocks Jun 10

Espresso and Coke May 14

xnee screwing up your X session? May 7