Picking a Cloud-like Dedicated Hosting Provider

The future is here for dedicated hosting! The landscape today looks a lot more like the cloud — APIs, fast provisioning, and no commitments. It is awesome. In this post I explore the new age of dedicated hosting and describe my thought process for picking a provider. My wish list of features grows over the […]

Hacker School Day 39 – pstree and Weird /proc Behavior

I made a pstree clone and found weird behavior in /proc

Automatic Rainbows and fuse-colors

I developed fuse-colors, a tool for wrapping most commands with arbitrary bash. These are notes from the dev experience.

Automatic Rainbows in your Terminal with fuse-colors

I used FUSE and perl to make fuse-colors, a script that allows you to automatically wrap commands in arbitrary bash

Forcing Rsync to Create a Remote Path Using –rsync-path

rsync has a –rsync-path parameter that allows you to cheat and specify commands to run before executing rsync.