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BookClubPod is a new podcast featuring 4 Nottingham tech community people from operations, development, design & management backgrounds to talk about books.
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Running docker login as another user in Chef (2 mins read).
Hitting the error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket when trying to run docker login as a non-root user in Chef.
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:37 — 30.0MB) A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the …
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My First Week Back to Working (Remotely) After Three Months (6 mins read).
How I've found the first week back to work after almost three months, and the productivity gains of working reduced hours.
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To kick off the Remote Work Podcast, Carla joins me to discuss what remote work is, and especially answer why remote working is something to discuss at all. It's terrifying to publish a first of something. There are a million things I want to have done differently or better, but a first s
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Learning a new skill can be a daunting task, with programming being especially tricky. But what can you do when most learning materials and tools aren't accessible to you? Blind backend developer Parham Doustdar joins us to talk about how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced and his advice for other visually impaired developers. We also look at the ways educational resources and programming as a whole can be made more accessible, opening up technology to eager new learners and makers.
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 56:19 — 38.7MB) It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming …
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:09:21 — 47.7MB) We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and …
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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc Rubocop Updates (1 mins read).
Disabling the Missing space after # and Do not use block comments errors for your knife-cookbook-doc formatted comments.
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#blogumentation
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#chef
#knife-cookbook-doc
#chef-13
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Scott teams up with Pursuit Podcast's Jessica Rose for a collaboration. Jessica asked her audience "What's the worst advice you've ever received?" We took their audio clips and turned it into a two-part discussion! You can check out Part 2 at The Pursuit Podcast https://twitter.com/pursuitpod http://hyperurl.co/zukdmh
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Today we're learning about Netlify and joining us is the incredible Phil Hawksworth to share his tips and tricks around it all. Datadog Datadog is a…
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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc gem upgrade (1 mins read).
Fixing odd Logger entries in autogenerated knife-cookbook-doc README.mds for Chef 13.
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#blogumentation
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Chef 13 Upgrade: Deprecation of Namespace Collisions in Custom Resources (1 mins read).
Preparing for breaking changes in Chef 14 by renaming property_name to new_resource.property_name in Custom Resources.
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Verify a Ruby Class Method is Called with Arguments in Rspec, Without Doubles or Mocks (1 mins read).
Rspec code to verify that a Ruby Class Method is called from another method, without needing to mock anything.
Testing Chef's ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (3 mins read).
Testing implementation of a ruby_block in ChefSpec, to ensure that the code executes as expected.
Chef 13 Upgrade: Lessons Learnt and Documented for Posterity (1 mins read).
Notes on the main problems encountered when upgrading from Chef 12 to Chef 13, both with ChefSpec and Rubocop.
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#blogumentation
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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for lazy Parameters (1 mins read).
How to resolve the Parenthesize the param lazy Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.
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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Testing render_file with ChefSpec and a with_content Block (1 mins read).
How to resolve the Parenthesize the param render_file Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.
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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Word Array Literals (%w) (1 mins read).
A one-liner shell command to fix Rubocop errors %w-literals should be delimited by [ and ].
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Chef 13 Upgrade: Testing ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (1 mins read).
Replace your block.old_run_action with block.block.call to trigger ruby_blocks within ChefSpec 7 and Chef 13.
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After two weeks of episodes about Kubernetes, our in-depth coverage of container orchestration is drawing to a close. We have a few more shows on the topic before we move on to cover other aspects of the software. If you have feedback on this thematic format (whether you like it or not), send me an
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Emoji Support in Dunst (2 mins read).
How to see Emoji when using the Dunst notification system.
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Joe drinks too much coffee, Allen spits his coffee out, and Michael feels vindicated as the discussions about Robert C. Martin's latest book, Clean Architecture, continues.
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SSLError When Running Berkshelf Behind a Proxy (2 mins read).
Getting around the pesky OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError SSLv2/v3 read server hello A error when running Berkshelf behind a proxy.
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#chef
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2017 in Review (68 mins read).
A look back over the awesome (and not so awesome) things that happened in 2017, and a look forward to what 2018 holds.
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Hackference 2017 (8 mins read).
My summary of the Hackference 2017 conference and hackathon.
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:05:42 — 45.2MB) KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, …
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Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and outs of Dan’s role to the foundation, how they make money to sustain things, membership, the support they give to open source projects, the home they’ve given to Kubernetes,...
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Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform as a service for deploying and managing web applications. Cloud Foundry is widely used by enterprises who are running applications that are built using Spring, a popular web framework for Java applications, but developers also use Cloud Foundry to manage apps built in Ruby, Node and any other programming
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:06:43 — 45.9MB) A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. News …
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Scott talks to Docker Captain and Open Source programmer Alex Ellis about the rise of Kubernetes, Serverless, and his project "OpenFaas." Alex also shares details on the obsession (and usefulness) of Raspberry Pi clusters for learning large systems development.
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We talk with Alan Duric, Co-founder and CEO of Wire, an open source end-to-end encrypted instant messaging app for voice and video calls. In 2005 Alan co-founded Camino Networks which was later acquired by Skype, and his involvement with internet based voice communications goes back 20 years. We talk about the early da...
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Cloud computing changed the economics of running a software company. A cloud is a network of data centers that offers compute resources to developers. In the 1990s, software companies purchased servers–an upfront capital expense that required tens of thousands of dollars. In the early 2000s, cloud computing started, and turned that capital expense into an
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2017's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2017?
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:05:20 — 44.9MB) It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. January No New …
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 51:23 — 35.3MB) Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is …
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Public key encryption allows for encrypted, private messages. A message sent from Bob to Alice gets encrypted using Alice’s public key. Public key encryption also allows for signed messages–so that when Alice signs a message, Alice uses her private key and Bob can verify it if Bob has her public key. In both cases, Bob
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