This is hopefully not important for anyone. It is simply a public record of what happened in case it is useful because of a problem.

In Berkeley, CA in October we rented a Budget rental car numbered 47088182, a gray Hyundai Elantra with Washington plates BAZ7021. While driving on the …

At work I’ve been instructed to get MySQL working in the cloud. I scoffed, whined and asked “Do we really need SQL?”. The Peanuts Gang teacher explained why and I didn’t really follow but I think I heard the words “business needs” and “blah blah blah”. If I …

Alternate working title: Awaiting for g’Doh!

TL;DR

• an async function is actually returning a promise behind the scenes

Details

See if you can figure out the output from this example:

import _Isofetch from 'isomorphic-fetch';

async function …

I’ve been using async/await, with help from babel, for the past several months at work and I figured I’d share some patterns I’ve found beneficial. I don’t have a background with async/await in other languages so I am coming at this problem without previous …

If you’re trying to RMA a Crucial SSD with model number CT960M500SSD1 (M500 2.5” 960GB SSD), then the material number is 225109.

The first step to starting the RMA with Crucial is to give them the “Material Number” for the SSD or memory. However my SSD had no …

When you outsource a component of your architecture to a cloud company you are consciously making a trade-off: You often get a cheap(er) (hopefully better, faster) service but you yield control to the service provider. This trade-off just became personal with Google Pub/Sub.

We’ve been using Google …

Update 2015-11-10: In the docker registry v2 API (now supported by Google Container Registry) an image digest is checked for each layer. So in theory this problem should no longer be possible.

Attempting a docker deployment, the deploy failed on the target system when docker pull resulted in one layer …

Western Digital HDD Inadequately Writes or Interprets SMART Data. Just a specific case in point to further validate the 2007 Google study that SMART data is unreliable. At work we have a Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA drive that had obviously, at some point, gone bad. If you tried to …

Updated: 2013-06-29

Leah Libresco is a fairly well-known blogger and self-identified geek, and the reason I’m paying attention is because she was an outspoken Atheist discussing religion, and now she’s an outspoken Catholic discussing religion.

Why do I care about what a complete stranger does? I identify with …