Avoiding Ansible apt_key on Debian
The apt_key Ansible module has been deprecated and there isn’t a drop-in replacement. There is a workaround available which achieves the same result but req...
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Avoiding Ansible
The Enterprise amusement park ride
As part of tutoring physics and maths to high school students, I sometimes write up deep-dive explanations of questions arising during lessons. Below I disc...
Book review: Practical Object-Oriented Design
Practical Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz: A well-paced, well-structured, and well-written introduction to the concepts of object-oriented design.
Using a Garmin Edge 530 head unit with Linux
As a Linux user, getting commodity devices like GPS head units to play nicely can be hard. This is why I was particularly happy to find out that Garmin devi...
Fixing a fifteen-year-old curve fit bug
The backwards compatibility of Perl software is wonderful. That’s why it’s all the more jarring when you find a package that doesn’t work. This is the stor...