Introduction Note There’s a better way of doing this with multibranch pipelines, which I recommend over this method. You may need to build jenkins jobs when branches/PRs are made from within the repository – say, to run tests. You may also want to report on the test status when finished. continue reading…
These are just 5 helpful Linux tricks I’ve picked up in my career and thought would be nice to share, in case there are others that don’t know about them! Did you know that you can use cd without any arguments to go back to your home directory? You can continue reading…
The perl depenendency management tool Carton allows not only easily separating dependencies for different applications or parts of the system, but also easily deploying an application and handling its dependencies. Using Carton is extremely straight-forward for anybody who’s used cpanm to manage dependencies before. Installing and using your application The continue reading…
As I hope you know, Mozfest 2015 took place from November 6 to November 8 2015 at Ravensbourne UK. Mozfest is organised by Mozilla, but it is not entirely about Mozilla products. Instead, it aims to get people together talking about policies Mozilla cares about as an organisation – such continue reading…
Chromebooks are fun, light, and have a long battery life, which is why I use one. It’s an awesome companion for travelling, studies, and other cases that require long battery life and mobility more than they do computing power. ChromeOS lacks some of the capabilities you find on Windows OS’s continue reading…
I had the pleasure to spend the week of the 22nd – 27th of June in Whistler, BC for Mozilla’s all-hands conference, called Mozilla Work Week. The invitation came out of the blue, and I am extremely grateful to have received it! I could say that it was some of continue reading…
I recently wanted to back up my LUKS-encrypted disk. However, clonezilla only offered the ability to clone with dd, rather than the faster partclone tool, which is understandable. It is, however, possible to clone the (decrypted) underlying extfs filesystem. Note: if you make a backup of your decrypted data, it continue reading…
If you're not aware, Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox, has their own smartphone and mobile Operating System, FirefoxOS. I got one of the phones at Mozfest, and ever since, I've been wanting to hack it to make it work exactly the way I want it. It's open source, and all continue reading…
About a week ago, I heard that the socialcoding4good community manager Emma Irwin was running an OpenHatch session at the University of Victoria (in Canada!) OpenHatch sessions are meant to help students get started in contributing to Open Source software. Emma was also going to show them how to contribute continue reading…
I’m a generally quiet person, but if you ask me about open source projects, I’ll go on about them forever (I even had someone interview me about it). So, I thought I should finally get all of my honest thoughts down on my own blog as well! freenode (or the continue reading…