template.txt contains:

Hello ${NAME}

Then you could run:

export NAME=Dan
envsubst < template.txt

And the result would be “Hello Dan”

After reading Atlassian worflow comparison and Vincent Driessen original post about GitFlow I have come to realise a couple of worrying things:

• I incorrectly assumed GitFlow was the same thing as GitHub flow (fork project, do work then pull request)

• This model appears to be popular but it seems totally archaic to me

  • Requires lots of merging especially if you refactor at lot.
  • Doesn’t do CD
  • Requires lots of manual work
  • Master and develop seem the wrong way around to me
  • How many branches?

• I use pull requests but don’t use feature branches which the Atlassian article implies requires feature branches

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alias json='xclip -o | jq -C "." | less -r'

By default Ubuntu does not install the EWS (Exchange Web Service) plugin for Evolution

sudo apt-get install evolution-ews

Then go into Evolution and choose the following settings:

• Server Type: Exchange Web Service
• Username: WINDOWS-DOMAIN\username
• Host URL: https://webmail.company.com/owa/

Now click “Fetch URL” and it should ask you for a password and populate the Host and OAB Url correctly.

It will then try and launch Evolution but for me I had to restart for it to correctly work and then it asked me a couple of times for my windows password.

Related to my QCon talk and original blog post, I’m soft launching my 10second.build project.

I had to switch to using proprietor AMD drivers as the open source ones don’t support audio via display port, but after switching, Chrome was tearing and just going completely black.

The chrome GPU page reported no hardware acceleration enabled.

So I went to Chrome Flags page and forced GPU acceleration and rasterisation

Override software rendering list -> Disabled
Enable GPU rasterization -> Force enabled on all layers
Smooth Scrolling Linux -> Enable

Failures are opportunities in disguise - Johan Ernst Nilson

The Art of being Kind - Stefan Einhorn

Designing For Generosity - Nipun Mehta

What is Happiness? The Story of Bhutan - Dr Julia Kim

GDProblem - Lorenzo Fioramonti

The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.

EdX
EdX offers free online courses and classes. Find the latest MOOC from the world’s best universities including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, UT and others.

Impact Hub
Part innovation lab, part business incubator, and part community center, It offers a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities to grow impact.

The Spirit Level (Book)
Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality.

Kennedy on GDP
Great speech by Kennedy on what’s wrong with GDP as a measurement

The Lost Generation
Another moving video

Growing unequal - OECD report

Divided we stand - OECD report

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Have bought the book, looks very applicable to me at the moment.

War Games - Simulate worse case scenario
Haven’t found a good link for this with regards to IT

Service recovery paradox

Logging Stuff

FluentD
Loggly
LogEntries
PaperTrail

Monitoring
DataDog
Ruxit

Evans Phoenix - Structured Logging

Operational Features

More Unikernel
Haskell Unikernel
Rump Kernel

Security
Bug Crowd
Hacker One

Notary
Sign those curl | sh installs

GRSecurity patches to Linux