The Technical Blog of James on purpleidea.com

Better git status

Running etcd over SSH

Working around an iPXE issue

Modules and imports in mgmt

Mgmt Configuration Language: Functions

Better dmesg in five minutes

A new provisioning tool built with mgmt

Bash $PATH filtering

Upcoming Speaking and Events

Git branch filtering

Five minute hacks: Swapping left and right headphone audio in wireplumber

One minute hacks: Saving time inserting images in Libreoffice

UEFI booting, and with a new kernel module

Improving git diff output in 5 min

Blocked select logging (deadlock finding) in golang

Deadline context test cancellation in golang

Magic typing with shortcuts on Linux

USB Audio on a Boombox

Working at Amazon

James is available for hire!

Inexpensive Dynamic DNS over IRC

USB Car Audio in a Civic

Mgmt Configuration Language: Class and Include

Upcoming Speaking and Events

A guide to fighting with a Cisco access point

The End of a Red Giant

Hyperlinks in GNOME terminal

Breaking out of the Slack walled garden

A new sync primitive in golang

Leaving Red Hat

Running `make` from anywhere

Mgmt Configuration Language

Hello World!

Copyleft is Dead. Long live Copyleft!

Extracting movies from libreoffice

Declarative vs. Imperative paradigms

Osmocom femtocell un-boxing

Metaparameters in mgmt

Faster golang builds

Ten minute hacks: Process pause & resume

Send/Recv in mgmt

A revisionist history of configuration management

Remote execution in mgmt

mgmt has a logo

Live dmesg following

Seen in downtown Montreal...

Ten minute hacks: Hacking airplane headphones

Automatic clustering in mgmt

Upcoming speaking In Hong Kong and South Africa

One hour hacks: Remote LUKS over SSH

Automatic grouping in mgmt

Automatic edges in mgmt

Introducing: git tpush

Debugging golang programs

Next generation configuration mgmt

Upcoming speaking

Trying out Ceph with Oh-My-Vagrant

Matching arbitrary URL's to custom Firefox profiles

Thanking Oh-My-Vagrant contributors for version 1.0.0

Vagrant and Oh-My-Vagrant on RHEL7

Making an empty RPM

Golang parallelism issues causing “too many open files” error

Git archive with submodules and tar magic

Oh-My-Vagrant “Mainstream” mode and COPR RPM's

A super privileged Puppet container

Kubernetes clusters with Oh-My-Vagrant

Docker containers in Oh-My-Vagrant

Sharing dev environments with Oh-My-Vagrant

Fancy git aliases and git cherryfetch

Building RHEL Vagrant Boxes with Vagrant-Builder

Introducing: Silent counter

Replying to mailing lists with Evolution

Captive web portals are considered harmful

The switch as an ordinary GNU/Linux server

Testing Evolution's git master and GNOME continuous

Hacking out an Openshift app

Continuous integration for Puppet modules

Fixing dropbox “conflicted copy” problems

Introducing: Oh My Vagrant!

Rough data density calculations

Hybrid management of FreeIPA types with Puppet

One minute hacks: the nautilus scripts folder

Securely managing secrets for FreeIPA with Puppet

Hiera data in modules and OS independent puppet

Restarting GNOME shell via SSH

Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt (reprise)

Keeping git submodules in sync with your branches

Working at RedHat

Puppet-Gluster now available as RPM

Introducing Puppet Exec['again']

Preserving your working directory in gnome-terminal

Speaking at SCALE today!

Building a snow shelter

Scathing review of the Lenovo X240

Show the exit status in your $PS1

Screencasts of Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant

Building base images for Vagrant with a Makefile

Testing GlusterFS during “Glusterfest”

Automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant!

Vagrant clustered SSH and ‘screen’

Vagrant vsftp and other tricks

Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt

Now syndicated on “Planet Fedora”

Advanced recursion and memoization in Puppet

Documentation for Puppet-Gluster

Iteration in Puppet

Pushing Puppet at Puppet Camp DC, LISA 2013

Gluster Community Day, LISA 2013, Monday

Speaking at LISA 2013 about Puppet and GlusterFS

Easier strace of scripts with pidof -x

first release of puppet-shorewall

Desktop Notifications for Irssi in Screen through SSH in Gnome Terminal

GNOME Montreal Summit

Show current git branch in PS1 when branch is not master

Finite state machines in puppet

No Ads!

Installing missing GNOME games

Bittorent sync for repository mirroring

Gluster Community Day, Thursday

Linuxcon day three, Wednesday

Linuxcon day two, Tuesday

Linuxcon day one, Monday

New puppet-gluster features before Linuxcon

Puppet-Gluster and me at Linuxcon

Finding YAML errors in puppet

Upgrading from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19

a puppet-ipa user type and a new difference engine

Fresh releases! puppet-ipa, puppet-nfs, puppet-gluster

Playing with FreeIPA and puppet

puppet lsi hardware raid module

Collecting duplicate resources in puppet

puppet matlab module

puppet rsnapshot module

Forcing firefox to remember passwords

Overriding attributes of collected exported resources

Mothers day hacks

Upgrading to centos 6.4 with shorewall onboard

Fixing jerky scrolling in Firefox

Knowing when to release and deploy your code (...and a mini script)

running your file manager from a terminal

adding range support to python's http server to kickstart with anaconda

learn how to do one minute hacks, in three minutes

A quick anaconda trick

Automatic hiera lookups in puppet 3.x

Picking up the pieces after a Fedora 18 install

How to send and receive files like a professional

Renaming a GNOME keyring (for seahorse, the passwords and keyrings application)

SElinux causes pain when using puppet 2.x with hiera

Dynamically including classes in puppet

Clustering virtual machines with rgmanager and clusvcadm

How I broke (and fixed) my rgmanager service

visible close buttons on every firefox tab (including the last one)

more rows and columns on firefox new tab page

hello planet puppet

recursion in puppet (for no particular reason)

continuous display of log files (better tail -f)

setting timed events in puppet

preventing duplicate parameter values in puppet types

changing *that* keyboard shortcut right there (in gnome)

Multifile mode for text editors

Our fusion future

including a recursive tree of files with distutils

finding your software install $prefix from inside python

How to avoid cluster race conditions or: How to implement a distributed lock manager in puppet

puppet gluster module now in git

a puppet module for gluster

now syndicated on “planet gluster”

building intel nic driver (igb) for gluster on centos

my gluster setup, described

gnome3+others glipper/klipper replacement

fedora 14 to 17 upgrade

IPMI for linux professionals

how to use ssh escape characters

Dear internets

sparse rsync magic

git, gitosis, gitweb and friends...

gnome-do trick

lecturing and git-bisect

scary cool bash scripting inside a Makefile

getting gedit to work like magic

n900 features that should be added

a custom epiphany location bar

reading obscure documentation

getopt vs. optparse vs. argparse

sorting out the confusion

piping data through ssh

really well written article

IPVS + shorewall

scary man pages

multi monitors and how it should all work (long babble)

tech support for a keyboard

vanilla: my favourite flavour of gnome

why linux is powerful or: how to erase half your system and then fix it

the python subprocess module

the power to yield a better console interface

ssh hanging

cheetah == fortran

[py]inotify, polling, gtk and gio

evanescent 0.3

logging out of $SESSION

convert .ai to .svg using uniconverter

brilliant: get rid of mono

coloured tab completion

grep, shopt:dotglob and (hidden) dot files

Server Fault

community

first babble