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Category: What I’m Thinking About
Big and small things I’m working on.
Shared Services and Exit Strategies
A brief review of exit strategies and shared services. With Wallace Shawn.
Shame, Irony, and the Littoral Combat Ship.
A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, the lead vessel in the $37 billion Littoral Combat Ship program, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. – Reuters I have no particular love for the LCS program, but this … Continue reading Shame, Irony, and the Littoral Combat Ship.
“Patches Welcome”: Quicksilver edition
If you want something done, don't tell me it's important to you. Show me. I will spend hours and hours answering your programming questions on the mailing list, or looking over your code, but I'm not going to spend 20 minutes on a feature or plugin if I don't need it. – Rob McBroom, Quicksilver … Continue reading “Patches Welcome”: Quicksilver edition
Air Force Software Licensing Bible
If I ever had any questions about how the government can use or demand software with open source licenses, the answer is in this surprisingly readable, unimaginably well-documented manual: Acquiring and Enforcing the Government's Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software Under Department of Defense Contracts: A Practical Handbook for Acquisition Professionals
Panopticon for dog poop.
Using DNA to punish the lazy.
Huginn on OpenShift
Huginn is like IFTTT for nerds. I think the project is really interesting, but couldn't get it running on my own server, so OpenShift to the rescue. I have an "openshift" branch which seem to work pretty great. I just submitted instructions which should show up on the upstream wiki: Deploying on OpenShift.
Cloud, Portability, and FUD
Chris Uttenweiler over at DLT doesn't care for all this talk of cloud lock-in. He thinks it's an inflated problem, blown out of proportion by "third-tier" providers and "self-titled" consultants. He's wrong.
RSS to email to Pocket
Since the Google Reader Apocalypse, I've been sending rss feeds to my email. This is mostly great, but I've been missing the ability to save items I want to read later. I use Pocket for this kind of thing, and just discovered that you can send URLs to Pocket via email. Perfect! If I find … Continue reading RSS to email to Pocket
Adding RSS feeds to Tiny Tiny RSS with Chrome
Get a Chrome extension like the now-defunct RSS Subscription Extension. TechCrunch helpfully provides a list of alternatives. On the Extensions page, choose the RSS Subscription Extension's Options link. Click Add... Enter whatever you like for the description, and the following URL: https://$SERVER/public.php?op=subscribe&feed_url=%s Where $SERVER is obviously wherever you've installed tt-rss. You probably have to have … Continue reading Adding RSS feeds to Tiny Tiny RSS with Chrome
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