Content here is by Michael Still, mikal@stillhq.com.
I’m torn about this book — the premise is interesting, the world is novel, and the book is well written. The book has a strong environmental theme, with a focus on the environmental impact of Chinese economic development during Mao’s cultural revolution. However, despite all that the book didn’t “grab” me. I think perhaps its…
So last night Shaken Fist CI jobs started failing with errors like this (editted lightly for clarity): Building wheels for collected packages: shakenfist-ci Building wheel for shakenfist-ci (setup.py): started Building wheel for shakenfist-ci (setup.py): finished with status 'error' error: subprocess-exited-with-error × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [86 lines…
So, as of today by Shaken Fist CI jobs for Debian 10 are failing to install bcrypt, with an error that looks like this: Running setup.py install for bcrypt: started Running setup.py install for bcrypt: finished with status 'error' [ … snip … ] running build_rust =============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE============================= If you are seeing a compilation error…
I’m new to pulp and am installing based on the Ansible roles as documented at Getting started – Pulp Installer. During the install, I get this error: TASK [geerlingguy.postgresql : Define postgresql_log_dir.] ************ fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘dict object’ has no attribute…
I’ve been playing again with Docker images and their internal layers a little more over the last week — you can see some of my previous adventures at Manipulating Docker images without Docker installed. The general thrust of these adventures is understanding the format and how to manipulate it by building a tool called Occy Strap…
I discovered last night that network bridges on linux have their Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) overwritten by whatever is the MTU value of the most recent interface added to the bridge. This is bad. Very bad. Specifically this is bad because MTU matters for accurately describing the capabilities of the network path the packets will…
Recently I’ve been playing a bit more with Docker images and Docker image repositories. I had in the past written a quick hack to let me extract files from a Docker image, but I wanted to do something a little more mature than that. For example, sometimes you want to download an image from a…
This is the second business paper I’ve read this week while reading along with my son’s university studies. The first is discussed here if you’re interested. This paper is better written, but more academic in its style. This ironically makes it harder to read, because its grammar style is more complicated and harder to parse….
So, one of my kids is studying some business units at university and was assigned this paper to read. I thought it looked interesting, so I gave it a read as well. While not being particularly well written in terms of style, this is an approachable introduction to the culture and values of Google and…
Shaken Fist v0.4.2 snuck out yesterday as part of shooting this tutorial video. That’s because I really wanted to demonstrate floating IPs, which I only recently got working nicely. Overall in v0.4.2 we: Improved CI for image API calls. Improved upgrade CI testing. Improved network state tracking. Floating IPs now work, and have covering CI. shakenfist#257…