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This blog post was originally posted on the Voom Flights blog, here.

This blog post was originally posted on the Voom Flights blog, here.

We needed to figure out a way to download our private gems from github securely. Here's how we did it. Continue reading →

Side loading 3D SBS videos into Littlstar media player on the PS4 can be a bit tricky. Get help here. Continue reading →

Ticketmaster is a horrible company, and I won't give them my business anymore. Continue reading →

We were getting a lot of core dumps and segfaults in our CI builds. We’ve been getting them for a while, now, but they were so infrequent we just let them slide by the wayside.

When trying to understand how to alleviate pressure from our PostgreSQL instances, we were using a query like this:

When attempting to upgrade from Postgres 9.2.8 to 9.4.5 I encountered a bizarre error that was difficult to troubleshoot:

Amazon marketplace vendors have been requesting me to give them feedback a lot lately. No. Here's how to stop it. Continue reading →

Shell prompts can be useful if they are configured properly (and let's have some fun while we're at it). Continue reading →

Without a good backup strategy, spilling water on your Macbook can be devastating. Let's try to recover that laptop, or at least your data. Continue reading →

Herein lies some debugging with some issues using HALog, where no lines were being parsed. Continue reading →

Compiling PHP on SmartOS is a pain in the neck. Here's how I did it. Continue reading →

Sprout-wrap has been a moving target lately, and has undergone some recent growing pains. Continue reading →

Rolling back to a specific commit using the Git Push feature for WPEngine Continue reading →

Where we explore using the sprout-wrap tool to set up and converge a cluster of developer workstations Continue reading →

An update of the Wes Anderson Recycling program, three years later. Continue reading →

Create timelapses with open source software Continue reading →

We take a list of actors, a list of Wes Anderson films, and plot them two-dimensionally. Continue reading →

Unboxing Stuff from Seattle Continue reading →

The official move date has been set, the rental truck reservations have been made, the lease has been signed. Continue reading →