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Notes on shipping, infra, and small newsrooms — by Patrick Schless.

DevOps / SRE / infrastructureLinux / UnixSoftware / engineering practiceElectronics

’10’15’20’25
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56 from 3 Mar 2009 to 3 Jun 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. Tools That Pause the Loop
  2. AI As Externalized Context

2014 9

  1. TorVM for QubesOS
  2. Creating a VM using KVM & Proxmox
  3. XenServer Recap
  4. Xen Workflow - Migrating a VM
  5. Xen Workflow - Creating a Pool
  6. Xen Workflow - Copy VMs
  7. XenServer - Create a VM from an ISO
  8. Xencap - Xen Management Library for Capistrano
  9. Virtualization Options

2013 6

  1. Concept to Finished Piece - Generations of an Electronics Project
  2. Raspberry Pi Serial Console
  3. Architectural Primitives: Inter-Datacenter Tunnels
  4. XCP (Xen) on a Mac Mini
  5. SSH Honeypots & DataViz
  6. Bulk Loading Time-Series Data @ TempoDB

2012 8

  1. How Not To Get Sales On Etsy
  2. Timewise
  3. Hot Or Not: Back Up, Kind Of
  4. Cutting Pageload Time by 50%
  5. Weekend Project: Generate an (HTML + JS) eCommerce Site
  6. Etsy - The Importance of Sales Goals
  7. Opening an Etsy Store: Two Weeks In
  8. Laser Cutting for Fun & Profit

2011 15

  1. Snake Attack!
  2. Arduino From Vim
  3. Addressable LED Grid
  4. Communique From 1863
  5. LED Strips, Cheaper vs. Cooler
  6. Testing Singletons in Ruby
  7. Braintree 10% Time: LED Strip
  8. Coffeescript, VowsJS, & Asynchronous Testing
  9. Building A Thermostat Using Arduino
  10. Fork & Extend vs. Build Your Own, a NodeJS Example
  11. Fighting Back After Hacker News Took Down My Site
  12. Beyond NoSQL: Using RRD to store temporal data
  13. Announcing Hot Or Not
  14. Power Hungry
  15. Poor Man's LCD Touchscreen Breakout Board

2010 3

  1. Drop-Dead Simple Authentication for Microapps
  2. Announcing Inspectinator
  3. Drop-Dead Simple Token Generation -- Fixnum#to_s

2009 13

  1. Ruby Hoedown '09
  2. Erlang & Ruby
  3. Erlang & Ruby -- Ring Network
  4. ActiveRecord Callbacks Trigger on Clean Objects
  5. Ruby on Android -- Part 2
  6. Ruby on Android -- Part I
  7. Vim
  8. Vim Statusline
  9. Firebug's Console Pitfall
  10. Rails Association Caching Pitfalls
  11. Watching Your Logs From The Console
  12. When Your Data Leaves Home Without You
  13. New Blog