2012

• Firing right

  Why firing well matters, the three broad reasons it happens, and guidelines for handling it with honesty, transparency, and minimal damage

  October 20, 2012 | 4 min read |

  # HR
• Twinger

  A tiny Ruby gem that provides finger-style command line output for any Twitter user, built mostly to entertain myself for ten minutes

  October 6, 2012 | 1 min read |

  # ruby # finger # twitter
• Is DevOps the new silo?

  Worrying that naming a team DevOps just relocates the silo problem instead of changing the culture, process, and tooling underneath

  September 29, 2012 | 1 min read |

  # devops
• Visiting New Mexico

  Notes from a trip to Socorro for a job fair, green chili season, and a detour out to see the Very Large Array radio telescope

  September 22, 2012 | 4 min read |

  # science # america
• Puppet and Kestrel

  Sharing a report processor that pushes each Puppet log entry onto a Kestrel distributed message queue via the kestrel-client gem

  September 21, 2012 | 1 min read |

  # Puppet # kestrel # reports
• CopperEgg

  A look at CopperEgg's SAAS monitoring and updates to their Puppet module adding a type and provider for their uptime monitoring API

  September 2, 2012 | 1 min read |

  # Puppet
• Why I don't care where you went to school

  Younger candidates lean too hard on their schooling, so here is what to lead with instead: cover letters, published code, and clubs or collaboration

  August 28, 2012 | 2 min read |

  # hiring