Dockerized HTPC Suite (sabnzbd, couchpotato, nzbdrone, plex)
A “One Ring” to control a dockerized suite of HTPC apps, each in their own isolated container
Perform L3 adoption with UniFi Controller v4 (Dockerized)
Not quite as straightforward as it should be
Activating Windows Server Evaluation
No, you can’t just “activate” an Evaluation version
Addons to improve Thunderbird (and make it less annoying)
My organization standardizes on Mozilla Thunderbird as our mail client of choice (partly because Mail.app is so deficient on OSX). It’s a bit crusty since Mozilla halted further development in 2012, but better the devil you know, right…?
IT Monitoring lessons learned from FCC report into 911 outage
IEEE Spectrum highlighted an FCC report into a 911 outage in April 2014, which resulted in over 11 million Americans.. or about three and half percent of the population of the United States, being at risk of not being able to reach emergency help through 911.
MacBook Air recommendation for cost-conscious newlyweds
A friend who recently got married asked for advice (below) on purchasing a MacBook Air, and I thought it might be useful to record my response here:
Do less to be more productive
In “Your organization sucks at innovating”, Shane Parrish discusses innovation (or lack thereof) within an organisation:
Engineers make poor managers
Update: after a back-and-forth with Lindsay, this post should more accurately be titled “Good engineer != good manager”
Working late (consistently) is a sign of failure
I recently enjoyed this article, in which Jeff Sutherland describes how working longer hours actually makes you less productive.
Bought a pebble watch, saved my brain
In “Buy a watch, save your brain”, I wrote about how I hoped to buy a wrist watch (at the time, it was the rumoured “iWatch”), and reduce the amount of distraction I caused myself each time I checked the time on my iPhone.