After 2.5 years at Forward I am moving on. The time there has been great, I worked with some of the smartest people I know on some interesting projects. Things that are now core to me I used for the first time there - Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Node.js, Puppet »
Some of you will remember my last 101 Goals In 1001 Days, it led to quite a lot of fun, gave me something to aim at over an extended period and completely transformed my fitness. People laughed when I said I would do a marathon and now I’ve done 2, I »
My last post about automata was light on code, mostly because I got tired and lost some time doing the simulations inside the post in a way that worked in Firefox and Chrome. This was as a warmup exercise for Lisp In Summer Projects, if you like Lisp »
This post is about evolving Cellular Automata to perform computation. The example I use is from the book Complexity - A Guided Tour The most famous cellular automata is Conway’s Game of Life, a 2D automaton with simple rules to determine whether each »
A while ago I saw the Backblaze storage pod and was impressed, super cheap and space for 45 drives in 4U. I found a place to have them made in the UK (in matt black, not the Backblaze red) and though I sold most of them I have still got a few left »
Had to move a few domains and knocked up this script. It mostly just glosses over some differences in the formatting of the records, A and CNAME records translate pretty well but TXT and MX are combined in R53 and have separate attributes in Rackspace »