ansible
Lately, I've been running into an issue with Ansible. My playbook runs kept running into the following issue. [WARNING]: sftp transfer mechanism failed on [server-name]. Use ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information My research took me to the following Stack Overflow link where the synopsis is that
productivity
Productivity continues to be an unsolved need in my life. However, I have to say that the tools and methodology have come a very long way since this journey started for me many, many years ago. I have been very blessed in the sense that through my professional journey I&
I typically build and install my experimental applications to Heroku as it's a quick and easy way to deploy Ruby on Rails applications to production. This is especially useful when my apps are usually early prototypes of various ideas. However, for one of my side projects, I decided
I typically jump around my ChromeOS and MacOS machines on a daily basis while I code. Today, I got an error which I've never seen before and it looked like this: make: *** [Release/obj.target/binding/src/binding.o] Error 1 gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack
The decision to leave WE in the first quarter of 2020 was a tough one for a few reasons. It was a place that gave me a lot of life purpose, and it was an opportunity to work with some incredible people along the way. WE was a place that
retrospective
Reflections on 2020 Writing my yearly retrospective always starts me in the same place - the last 12 months have flown by quickly. It generally feels like it was too quick. 2020 was certainly different. 2020 was undoubtedly eventful both from a global and personal perspective. Globally, the pandemic was
Cucumber is one of my favourite testing tools and one of the nicer features that it has is the ability to re-run failed tests. To do so, you can run the following command: cucumber -f rerun -o rerun.txt The command will run all of the tests and output all
One of my favourite features on Windows 10 is the Hello sign-in feature. It's excellent if your Windows is your primary driver in a safe location. I primarily use it for my desktop at home as it's nice to sit down, instantly logged in to my
The standard instruction for installing the postgres gem on MacOS is to install the entire Postgres app by entering brew install postgres I wanted to do a leaner install and after digging through some StackOverflow articles, I found that you could just install the Postgres libraries by entering brew install
life
I initially wrote this blog entry as I was winding down my time at WE. At the time, I started to reflect on my four-year journey there. Overall, it's been an incredible part of my career, where I got to meet and work with some wonderful people along
ansible
I was getting a "Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) on [machine name]'s Python /usr/bin/python." Part of the issue is that I have Python 2 and Python 3 running on my Raspberry Pi. After digging through the web, I found this article
application
I've recently fallen in love with a new productivity app called Sunsama. I came across it quite by chance, but after using it for the past few months, it's working out to be the closest thing to the perfect productivity tool there is out there. I&