Jamie Thingelstad

What did I do on the flight?

Wrote a Backus-Naur form grammar for Planet Kubb Kubb notation.

I finally have TSA Pre✔️ and that is awesome. 🙌

Had no idea Raiden was available for iPad! Favorite arcade game ever!

I’ve been running a MediaWiki farm at thingelstad.com for a couple of years now hosting about a dozen wikis ranging from small to very large. Running a MediaWiki farm is a bit complicated and you can approach it a number of different ways. I recently pushed the settings that I use to run my farm into GitHub so others can see how I do it. The next step will be to also move the scripts that I use up, but those will be kept in another repository.

Hopefully this proves useful to others. It’s useful for me to finally have these very complicated settings (really code!) under version control.

I’ve been planning to start working on using a configuration management solution for my hobby servers. Chef was too heavy for my purposes, and confused me a lot. I got really enamored with SaltStack, but never really caught onto it. I decided to give Ansible a go and actually have a couple of hosts in Vagrant and am managing some limited packages with Ansible. My work is in GitHub.

In theory, it should be straightforward to take my build notes and turn them into Ansible playbooks. We’ll see.

Starting to watch True Detective and excited to hear The Handsome Family doing the intro music.

Music at Lake Harriet Bandshell tonight.

Summer dinner of watermelon. 🍉

Had some progress with Vagrant and Ansible today.

“Here is a massive pull request with tons of changes.”
“Have you tested it?”
“No.”

😭

Great interview with Rajiv Pant, CTO of NYTimes. I have a ton of respect for Rajiv. Good read!

My Ukraine phone for easy messaging with team while here.

Feeling surprisingly well adjusted to an 8 hour timezone change for day 1.

Amsterdam Schiphol, does it still qualify as “Free WiFi” when packet loss > 50% ?