Brands I don’t like. I don’t have to explain why, but the answer is almost always some combination of bad quality, bad privacy, and spam. Hmmmm Avoid Dead to me Bonus brand rankings US IP camera brands: Reolink > AMCrest > Foscam
Read More My shitlistFor years, my tool for simple load tests of HTTP sites has been ApacheBench. For years, my reference for how to visualize ApacheBench results has been Gnuplot For years, my reference for how to use Gnuplot has been http://www.bradlanders.com/2013/04/15/apache-bench-and-gnuplot-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/ But do you really want to be writing Gnuplot syntax? It turns out that Pandas will…
Read More Apache BenchAfter becoming smitten with Graphite last year, I’m sorry to say I’ve become entranced by the new hotness: Prometheus. For a rundown between the two, Prometheus’s docs do a good job. The docs aren’t bad, but there are a lot of gaps I had to fill. So I present my hello world guide for using…
Read More Prometheus ContainedI’ve been learning Ansible off and on and off for the past year. I have so many complaints, but I still think it’s the least worst provisioning system out there. It’s online at crccheck.github.io/fuckingansible/, but I’ve also embedded it below: I’d go more into Ansible, just just thinking about it make me so angry. So…
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Tips n’ tricks I’ve picked up over the years for managing technical debt, specifically for large Django projects.
Read More Managing Technical Debt in Django ProjectsBurgers near me roughly in order of best to worst. Factors include price, convenience to me, and quality of the bun, patty, and flavors. Steakhouse burgers The distinguishing factor for steakhouse burger is the looser grind. Steakhouse patties are never pressed. Second Bar + Kitchen $$$ Patty – A, Bun – A, Atmosphere – Restaurant…
Read More Austin BurgersThere are lots of websites and youtube videos all trying to tell you how to mod GTA IV. Unfortunately, they’re almost all out of date, or youtube videos. I’m using steam installed Grand Theft Auto IV 1.0.7 A decent guide: http://www.gta-modding.com/iv/tutorials Prepping the Game Install This: Xliveless (v0.999b7 md5: F7FD7512F6AC8959CDDA6A2B2E014C68) http://www.gtaforums.com/?showtopic=388658 SparkIV (v0.7.0b1) The original…
Read More GTA IV 1.0.7 bootstrap guideI just got back from my first PyCon! There were a lot of familiar faces. Which is quite an achievement for an introvert like myself. I finally got to meet people in the Python community as far away as Austin, TX. While finding people was easy in a crowd of 2,500, finding food was not.…
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