Making a Demogorgon

This halloween we decided to stick with pop culture and try a Stranger things costume.

Auto mounting EBS Volumes to an EC2 Instance

Yesterday I was looking through an EC2 setup that I had made a while ago. I needed to automatically mount an EBS volume at boot, so that the services running on the box could talk to a partition without mounting it, regardless of if I rebooted the…

Setting up heroku-like git push deployment

I often find myself spinning up projects that I want to continuously deploy to a production-like environment. One of the easier ways to deploy code is to add an origin and push to it to deploy. It’s already in your workflow, so a setup like heroku makes a…

GitHub for beginners

Using git and GitHub can be intimidating for people who don’t spend most of their time in the command line, or who haven’t…

Clean(ish) mobile web deep linking for iOS and Android

Recently I needed to redirect a mobile web version of an app to an installed app.

This proved somewhat challenging, as there’s no standard for checking if a user has an app installed. You can of course just…

Primavera 2013

This year I headed to Primavera festival in Barcelona. I managed to snap (bad) pictures of nearly all the bands I saw, I decided I’d put up my bad photos and some thoughts about the bands I saw. I doubt this will be entertaining for anyone but myself, but as I have a bad memory, it’ll be good to have…

Albums I’m Excited About, April 4th