An early look at Sensu, Sonian's RabbitMQ based cloud monitoring framework, plus a Puppet module and Vagrant file for trying it
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Sensu Boundary A look at Boundary's network and flow monitoring tool and a Puppet module I wrote to deploy their probes
Weechat notifications for Android A small Weechat plug-in that pushes IRC highlights and private messages to an Android phone via the NotifyMyAndroid service
Why am I a tool maker? Why I keep publishing small open source tools and plug-ins on GitHub: ego, career value, learning, and paying back what other sysadmins gave me
Mafia Trying out Mafia, a Sinatra application generator, and contributing a binary plus a default action to scratch my own itch
Tally A small Sinatra and DataMapper scoreboard built for Puppet Labs ticket triage days, fed by a Redmine plugin that emits update events
What a great little book... Reading more Kindle titles, wading through self-published genre fiction, and thinking about what value print publishers still offer authors