Category Archives: News for the blog

News from the blog 2020-08-10

  • Atlassian tells employees they can work from home indefinitely. Which is nice and follow the steps of other giants before.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html

This new scenario challenges the old companies and is driving to some internal tensions in the companies that resist to allow employees to freely Remote Work.

  • I published this script to read the combined bandwidth, and peak max, from all drives.

https://blog.carlesmateo.com/2020/08/06/iostat_bandwitdth-sh-utility-to-calculate-the-bandwidth-used-by-all-your-drives/

  • I got new sales of my book in LeanPub and I’ve to say that this really makes me happy

I’ve been working in adding new information and I released a new update this week, the version 0.77. Talking about mutable and immutable objects when passing to a function, and references.

  • Bought new books and resumed my routines to study daily in the Coffee Shop (recently open)
  • I bought some new hardware
    • An Arm to support the laptop and a Vesa Monitor. That’s my Desk, actually

It is exactly this model:

  • I bought also an HDMI switch with 3 inputs and PinP
The most cool feature is the PinP. Is a simple model with reduced but does what I wanted perfectly and cheap. Worth the price.
  • I bought also this Mic/headphone USB dondle with a single jack. Very cool
Does exactly what I wanted, adding a new device. I’m using on a Windows 10 Enterprise box.
  • I’ve bought a static bicycle for the WFH / lockdown covid-19.

News from the Blog 2020-07-19

I start this section to mention things that are worth.

  1. I read this article from Slack outage in May. It is really nice:

https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82

2. I read this interesting article about Netflix and Hexagonal Architecture:

https://netflixtechblog.com/ready-for-changes-with-hexagonal-architecture-b315ec967749

3. This new from Amazon is interesting for everybody in the sector:

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazon-extends-work-from-home-policy-for-corporate-employees-until-2021-11594874878195.html

4. I updated CTOP.py to v.0.7.6 adding some command line switches to:

  • Limit the number of loops (like just getting the info and exiting, for scripting)
  • Work mode in black and white
  • Sleep time between retraces, to avoid flickering over SSH, and reduce bandwidth

5. I’ve been asked by an editorial to print my books in paper, for all the world. I’m thinking about it.

6. I’ve been asked to talk in a DevOps event.

7. I’ve created a new section in the blog, for adding the score of the videogames I played.

Python Combat Guide published

After some work reviewing it and ensuring it has the expected quality, I finally published my book Python Combat Guide.

Is an atypical creation. Is more a Master Class to my best friend, it could be a SDM, TL leading a small Software Development department, a Coder or a Scientist wanting to join IT as programmer and to learn a lot of stuff very quickly, than rather a formal Python Book for learning. Absolutely is not for beginners.

If you want to buy it, to explore the TOC, extended description…

https://leanpub.com/pythoncombatguide

News for the blog, upwards and onwards

2020-03-06 Heya, I’m doing a set of improvements to the blog.

One, you can already see. I added a new section to the CSS @media, so now screens bigger than 1,800 px in width, will use that width for rendering the page. The original WordPress theme at 960x was too small for our current screens. I will add a new CSS @media for 4K screens promptly.

Other is about the organization of the content. I want to separate a bit the contents, now articles are sequential and is difficult to discover nice contents if they have 2 or more articles more recent, so I will group articles by content and provide a small index on the top page. Also I will provide more areas for Operations, SRE, where it will be easy to locate code, scripts, tricks… things that are useful to our day to day. I also want to make visible the articles about living in different cities, for IT Engineers, with useful tricks and tips. And keep the more complex and more interesting Engineering matters in the main page.

Updates

2020-03-13 15:49 Added SSL to the blog

With more delay I wanted, I bought a SSL certificate, configured Apache, and after few changes to the blog has been set. One very annoying is that WordPress linked the images statically pointing to http://blog.carlesmateo.com so I changed the latest article’s images to point to relative path so they will work nice with http or https.

My reflection is that everything negative can have its positive output. With this coronavirus thing, I decided to focus into improving things. And so I’m doing. :)