Reification

"Beautiful as poetry; ludicrous as science."

Month: October, 2010

Suppress iTunes invocation on Pause/Play key

On my Macbook I have the F1-12 keys accessible under the Fn key, and instead by default they have various actions such as changing the volume or brightness, activating exposé, or other various functions. F7-F9 are shortcut keys for Next Track, Play/Pause, and Previous Track for music or other media. When I got my mac […]

Dynamic Git-branch Puppet Environments

When working with puppet, eventually you’ll arrive at any one of several conclusions; you have a mass of code and want to refactor it, you have a cool idea that you want to prototype, or you want to add some code but don’t want to push it to production until it’s done. Puppet’s answer to […]

Joining the Tautology Club

Hunter Haugen is a sys-admin/hacker of 10 years turned DevOps in an attempt to understand, play, and ultimately win The Game. Sorry, I mean The Game. My current battleground is a little open source company called Puppet Labs in the home of open source, Portland Oregon. My theatre is the world (it’s in my job description) — […]