New homepage, new URL for Bitsynchub

I give up. I’ve used home-grown, half-baked, and ’standard’ static homepage/blog generators, but in the end, I don’t have the time to spend on updating packages in third party solutions, and I don’t have the time – and no longer...

Provisioning Elasticsearch and Kibana with Terraform

Fair warning up front: this is not a Terraform, AWS, or Elasticsearch tutorial. You’ll need to know a bit or read the docs to apply the examples. When I wanted to add the AWS version of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) which is Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch and...

What I wish recruiters would do

I spend a lot of time dealing with recruiters – responding to queries, and accepting or rejecting endless amount of LinkedIn contact requests. I mostly agree to those requests, unless it’s obviously a spam account, since you never know what a new contact...

Sending non-valid names as arguments

I got a feature request on hgapi the other day, pointing out that it was not possible to filter the Mercurial log using the API, since there is no dedicated way to do it and the fallback method – sending keyword arguments that will be passed to the command line...