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s3cmd with Multiple Accounts
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work involving Amazon Simple Storage Service (aka Amazon S3). And while tools like Panic’s Transmit, the Firefox S3Fox extension, or even Amazon’s own S3 Management...
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Dispatches from Joplin, Part 1
On May 22, 2011 an EF5 tornado struck my hometown of Joplin, Missouri. At the time I was working at a startup in Bend, OR but my folks (and a lot of friends) were – and are – still in Joplin. My folks...
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Dispatches from Joplin, Part 2
Subject: Where’s Mike this week? From: Mike Sisk Date: May 30, 2011 To: engineering I’m still in Joplin this week. And my folks still don’t have power. The problem now is that my parent’s house is old...
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Dispatches from Joplin, Part 3
Subject: Where’s Mike, still-in-Joplin edition. From: Mike Sisk Date: June 3, 2011 To: engineering Well, I finally got an electrician out to my folks place. Then the job turned out to be too big for...
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Joplin Tornado Pictures
Some pictures from my recent trip back to my hometown of Joplin, Missouri.
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Some vi editor tips
Awhile back at a previous company I got hit with a last-minute request to update our Nginx redirect map with data provided in a Google docs spreadsheet. Normally I only have to do one or two redirect...
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Cron and sewing needles
Sometimes, even after decades of experience, you still screw up. Consider this cron entry I put in last night: # Backup MongoDB every 6 hours, zip it up, and rsync it. * */6 * * *...
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Setting up PTR records though the Rackspace Cloud DNS API with cURL
For this example I’m going to show you how to setup a PTR record in Rackspace Cloud DNS for a Cloud Load Balancer using the command-line utility cURL. I’m using a Rackspace Cloud production account...
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Today is my birthday and I’m 30.
In hexadecimal, that is. Hexadecimal – or base-16 – turns out to be surprisingly useful in dealing with computers. Modern computers work on boolean algebra. No matter how complex your software gets,...
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Information Retrieval
There’s a quote alleged to Einstein: “Never memorize what you can look up in books.” He would have loved the World Wide Web. In any give day I need to deal with hundreds of servers running widely...
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