After many years of friend’s suggesting I explore this software I have finally taken the plunge and installed Home Assistant. If you don’t know what this is it’s essentially open-source software that is designed to connect to any of the devices in your house such as IoT devices, smart-lights, routers, TVs, cameras, alarms and so […]
Streamlit – Rapid prototyping for python data apps
I needed to create a simple web interface for a project I was working on but I didn’t want to spend a lot of time setting up routes, MVC or some other pattern that was going to require a lot of setup. A friend suggested Streamlit. This python package allows you to insert a very […]
ChatGPT and Auto-GPT
Like everyone it seems I have been playing with ChatGPT and Auto-GPT trying to understand their capabilities, strengths and weaknesses and get a feel for where the technology is heading. Here are my observations thus far. GPT-3, GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4 and Bard I saw a big jump in response depth, comprehension and usability between GPT-3 […]
AWS CloudFormation: Internal Failure. Rollback requested by user
I ran into a problem where a stack would not build on AWS with the above error message. When you tried to create the stack it would simply hang and wait for 40 minutes or so, and then rollback. The problem turned out to be a parameter of type: And the IAM role building the […]
AWS: IAM: Role Chaining using Ruby SDK v3
Role Chaining is mentioned in the AWS Documentation but it is not clear exactly how you are meant to implement it in practice. It is used when you want to use one role to assume another role, which may be used to indicate the type of task you are performing as the app or may […]
What is DevOps?
Enterprise IT has been taken by storm by DevOps as both a buzzword and a movement. In this post I’m going to attempt the impossible – describe what DevOps is and isn’t, why it is so popular and what is the core value that is likely to remain once the hype train has left the […]
Bimodal IT – What is it, Does it work and What’s next
I’ve heard of this bimodal IT, what is it ? Bimodal IT is a concept introduced by Gartner that seeks to assist large organisations who want to adopt the new coolness – Agile, CI/CD, DevOps – but are stuck with a legacy fleet of brownfields apps. The basic idea is to divide your development into two streams, […]
Skype Spam – Spoofed Messages – Hi ! I advise to visit the link
On Sunday (05/07/2015 – Australian Date Format) my Skype sent out a series of links to people in the format of the title above. I was using the computer at the time but I wasn’t doing anything on Skype. My first thought was a virus, malware or trojan so I ran a full scan of […]
Site Upgraded to WordPress, New Cleaner Theme, Junk Removed
Hi Friends, This site has languished for quite a while for various reasons. The gap it filled in terms of sharing interesting things I found on the web was largely replaced by social media, and I went through a period of not knowing what to write about or how to go about it. I’ve recently […]
/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib line 51 segmentation fault
If you receive this error while trying to do an upgrade of your kernel on stable debian, it could be because your device.map is wrong. Try the following: mv /boot/grub/device.map /boot/grub/device.map.bak mkdevicemap