Nick Charlton

Archives

2021

Week Notes #25 — March 9, 2021
Making Drafts' Action Bar fit my workflow — March 8, 2021
Building a Brew Fridge — February 24, 2021
Week Notes #24 — January 25, 2021
A weekend with a Flir ONE — January 15, 2021
Week Notes #23 — January 13, 2021

2020

Week Notes #22 — November 2, 2020
Week Notes #21 — October 26, 2020
Week Notes #20 — October 18, 2020
Week Notes #19 — October 11, 2020
Week Notes #18 — September 15, 2020
Week Notes #17 — September 8, 2020
Week Notes #16 — August 17, 2020
Week Notes #15 — July 29, 2020
Week Notes #14 — May 26, 2020
Setting Jenkins Credentials with Groovy — May 8, 2020
Week Notes #13 — May 5, 2020
Week Notes #12 — April 28, 2020
Automating Ubuntu 20.04 installs with Packer — April 26, 2020
Week Notes #11 — April 20, 2020
Configuring the Jenkins email-ext plugin with Groovy — April 20, 2020
Week Notes #10 — April 6, 2020
Week Notes #9 — March 23, 2020
Week Notes #8 — March 15, 2020
Week Notes #7 — March 2, 2020
Week Notes #6 — February 16, 2020
Week Notes #5 — February 9, 2020
Week Notes #4 — February 2, 2020
Week Notes #3 — January 19, 2020
Week Notes #2 — January 12, 2020
Week Notes #1 — January 5, 2020

2019

Tailwind CSS with Rails 6 and Webpacker — November 10, 2019
Some resources for learning Go — October 20, 2019

2018

Structuring Terraform with Remote State — May 11, 2018
Kubernetes with Terraform on Google Cloud — May 7, 2018
Book Review: How To Have Your Cake And Eat It Too: An Introduction to Service Design — March 3, 2018
2017 — January 2, 2018

2017

On Giant Robots for WWDC — June 7, 2017
Co-hosting Build Phase — June 7, 2017

2016

Automating macOS using Ansible — December 6, 2016
Building Virtual Machines with Packer on ESXi 6 — December 3, 2016
Persistent SSH Keys with ESXi 6 — November 30, 2016
Configuring VMware ESXi 6 on Hetzner — November 28, 2016
Resize all Safari windows with AppleScript — May 30, 2016
Rails: Importing Local Data Dumps — April 11, 2016
Docker via Homebrew — January 17, 2016

2015

Mirroring Bazaar Repositories with Git — July 21, 2015
Terraform: AWS VPC with Private and Public Subnets — July 8, 2015
Installing Jenkins on OS X Yosemite — July 7, 2015
Providing Internal DNS with OS X Server — July 6, 2015
Fixing Problems with OS X Yosemite Server — July 6, 2015
Static Sites with Rack and Sass — April 14, 2015
Setting up Transparent Proxying VMs for mitmproxy — March 28, 2015
Conditionally Chaining ActiveRecord Queries — March 11, 2015

2014

Using Postmark with Sinatra — December 15, 2014
Structuring Sinatra Applications — November 29, 2014
Reserve: Caching with Expiring Keys and Redis — October 12, 2014
Site v4 — August 20, 2014
Custom Pandoc Options with Hakyll 4 — August 20, 2014
Debugging SenTestingKit to XCTest Linker Errors in Upgraded Xcode Projects — August 18, 2014
Ruby Subprocesses with stdout and stderr Streams — January 8, 2014
Annual Review 2013 — January 7, 2014

2013

Switching Season Report, 2013 Edition — August 28, 2013
Alfred Workflow: Paste Cleanly — August 27, 2013
Mocking Web Requests with VCR and MiniTest — August 15, 2013
Young Rewired State 2013 — August 13, 2013
Tweetbot Mute Filters — August 13, 2013
The Market for Used Mac minis — August 12, 2013
iOS 7: Watershed Moment — August 12, 2013
moviesapi: A Simple API for UK Cinema Listings — August 8, 2013
Automated Backups with backup and Rsync.net — August 2, 2013
Debian/Ubuntu: Dynamic MOTD — August 1, 2013
7 Agile Best Practices that You Don't Need to Follow — July 7, 2013
Multiple Displays (and OpenGL) — July 6, 2013
What's the mobile app market up to, then? — July 6, 2013
How Stripe Buids Software: Interview with Greg Brockman — July 6, 2013
The Makers of Things — July 5, 2013
Experiments with Android, a IOIO board and Heart Rate Monitoring — June 6, 2013
Side Projects — June 4, 2013
Wired writes something sensible about the Internet of Things — May 21, 2013
You should write about yourself more — May 21, 2013
George Zarkadakis: Love and artificial intelligence — May 21, 2013
The downsides of live music — May 21, 2013
The Default Narative — May 21, 2013
SparkFun: How to Build a Building — May 7, 2013
The Way of the Megapode — May 6, 2013
Space Apps Challenge 2013 — May 6, 2013
Maker Faire 2013 — May 6, 2013
Building the Bomber Cam with 3D Printing and Scraps — May 6, 2013
Paul Miller on his return to the Internet — May 2, 2013
Final Year Project is Over — April 30, 2013
Are we approaching a new AI winter? — April 8, 2013
Expectations — April 5, 2013
Test Environments with Vagrant and Chef — April 4, 2013
On the Long Journey to Production — April 2, 2013
On the Future of Humanity — April 2, 2013
Updates of March — March 31, 2013
Beer Selection — March 30, 2013
Outputting Matplotlib Plots for the Web — March 28, 2013
Drawing and Animating Shapes with Matplotlib — March 27, 2013
Digpen VI — March 24, 2013

2012

Blog Updates — October 17, 2012
NSConf Mini: Developers vs. Designers — September 20, 2012
dConstruct 2012 — September 8, 2012
Young Rewired State 2012 — August 13, 2012
Finishing at Rokk Media — August 4, 2012
Stuff I'm Working On & Learning — June 24, 2012
Bats, Hacks & Fieldwork — May 29, 2012
NASA Space Apps Challenge & Predict the Sky — May 6, 2012
ORGCon 2012 — March 29, 2012
Git Workshop — March 12, 2012
Review: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications by Jonathan Zdziarski — February 26, 2012
Mobile Security: I Don't Even Know Where to Begin — February 13, 2012
Brussels & FOSDEM 2012 — February 12, 2012
PAM for OmniAuth: omniauth-pam — January 15, 2012
Configuring Apache & PHP on Lion — January 10, 2012
Christmas Books — January 6, 2012

2011

Postgres on Lion — November 28, 2011
Drawing Primitives with Quartz — November 26, 2011
The Social Graph & Thoughts on Identity — November 9, 2011
Introducing UrbanScraper, and an Alfred Extension — October 28, 2011
Jacks: A place to start web projects — October 22, 2011
Configuring Gitosis on Debian — September 21, 2011
I forked QuickDialog — September 19, 2011
Where's Next? 1.0.1 Release — August 18, 2011
Where's Next? Now In the App Store. — August 12, 2011
Starting at Rokk Media — July 26, 2011
Thoughts on the UoP Intellectual Property Agreement — June 13, 2011
Digital Peninsula Unconference III, Falmouth — June 12, 2011
Digital Peninsula Unconference II, Exeter — May 15, 2011
Building Custom Android ListViews — May 11, 2011
Review: Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis — March 22, 2011
The Digital Peninsula's First Web Unconference — March 7, 2011
Using ruby-oci8 on Ubuntu/Debian — March 2, 2011
TermiSoc Hack Weekend 2011 — February 8, 2011
An Ultra-simple Guide to Reading XML in Java, using SAX — February 6, 2011

2010

ProgComp: A Programming Competitions Blog — December 26, 2010
BCS Lecture Series: Physical Security in IT — November 10, 2010
BCS Lecture Series: Apple (The Birth of a Third Platform) — September 29, 2010
On Long Way Down — September 17, 2010
CSS3 Bundle — July 10, 2010
New Project — May 30, 2010
SQLite, ADO.NET & CSharp — April 14, 2010
Fixing Missing Gem Problems on OS X — February 26, 2010
Thoughts on the iPad — January 27, 2010

2009

Ideas and University — November 3, 2009
Jekyll and GitHub — October 5, 2009
SSH Public Key Screencast Notes — September 18, 2009
New MacBook Pro — September 12, 2009
Public Key Auth Screencast — September 11, 2009
Configuring Sudo on Debian — June 26, 2009
Configuring an SSH banner on Debian — June 24, 2009
Introduction to SQLite 2 with PHP 5 — May 18, 2009
Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on an SD card — May 8, 2009
Using 'ab', ApacheBench to test Web Server Performance — April 5, 2009
DNS Testing Tools — February 25, 2009

2008

Converting a sparseimage to a dmg — November 1, 2008
Setting Up lm-sensors on Debian Etch — June 24, 2008