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Re: DevOps 100: Top leaders, practitioners, experts to follow

mattstratton — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:47:20 -0000

FYI, Jason Hand is at Microsoft, not VictorOps :)

Re: How I keep my mom updated on my travel schedule with Python, Twilio, and Google Calendar

mattstratton — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:02:00 -0000

This is super awesome. I want to do it myself right now.

Re: Let’s do the devops again with Nicole Forsgren & Tim Gross

mattstratton — Thu, 18 May 2017 22:39:47 -0000

http://nicolefv.com/resources has a white paper on measuring effectiveness and efficiency in DevOps. That paper has the questions.

Re: Use TDD to create a web server cookbook - Test driven development with InSpec on CentOS with VirtualBox and Vagrant - Test driven development with InSpec on CentOS - Test driven development with In...

mattstratton — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:34:15 -0000

To follow the instructions, it is specified to run "chef generate cookbook cookbooks/webserver_test". However, this will fail if the "cookbooks" directory does not already exist.

Chef Development Kit Version: 1.3.43

Re: Don’t Miss These DevOps Events in 2017

mattstratton — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 04:04:44 -0000

Don't forget all of the awesome devopsdays all over the world. Really a great opportunity, especially with the focus on Open Spaces. https://www.devopsdays.org has all the scoop.

Re: US hbo-go

mattstratton — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:06:59 -0000

Yep. Down down for us too. #hugops to the folks trying to get it back online.

Re: Chocolatey Gallery | hugo 0.19.0

mattstratton — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:32:21 -0000

The 0.18.1 package is missing some stuff from the powershell script.

Previously, it contained these lines:

```
# Rename the downloaded hugo file name to a sane filename
Get-ChildItem -Path "$($destinationPath)\*.exe" | Rename-Item -NewName "hugo.exe"
```

This is important for our build system, because we need to call hugo by name, and not the long name that is installed.

Re: How to build a mobile friendly website Part 2 - Ok to Go

mattstratton — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:28:48 -0000

I wonder if this would work:

1 - keep the general hugo setup the same (so people still work with the content directory and static directory, etc)
2 - local dev works totally fine because watch works just fine
3 - then, in the CI pipeline, have the following steps:
4a - build the static files to /public as usual using the hugo command
4b - run gulp tasks against all the static files in the /public directory but with an output of /deploy
5 - have the CI pipeline publish the contents of the /deploy directory to the web server/whatever

Am I crazy? Am I missing something?

Re: How to build a mobile friendly website Part 2 - Ok to Go

mattstratton — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:18:51 -0000

Thanks for the clarification! That's a big bummer for this project, because one of the reasons we got away from the ancient Ruby-based SSG we were using was people having to install stuff. I know that installing npm and gulp shouldn't be considered that big of a barrier to entry (especially since these are supposedly technical folks), but I can't use it now. Hmm. But this still is pointing me towards a direction that might work. And it will definitely work on my other Hugo sites! Thanks!

Re: How to build a mobile friendly website Part 2 - Ok to Go

mattstratton — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 09:38:43 -0000

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but when you're running local testing of your site, are you still running the gulp pipeline, or is this only on deploy?

Here's our scenario - we have a pretty expansive Hugo site, which has dozens of contributors to the content files (basically files that would exist in the content, static, or data directories in a standard install). I cannot assume/require them to have gulp locally. What I was hoping to do was have a set-up where everything would work fine using "hugo --watch" (pointing to existing, non-optimized files, etc) but then as part of our build pipeline in Netlify (substitute your favorite CI/CD pipeline there) it would run gulp to minimize HTML/CSS, optimize/fingerprint images, etc.

The SCSS --> CSS part is no big deal; that all happens in the theme, and happens offline (so the copy of the code that the contributors have has compiled CSS that works for them).

So, do all the files needed to "run" via "hugo --watch" exist inside the hugo/static directory? Seems like some kind of duplication between that and the src directory.

EDIT - looking at the README on hugulp, it says to copy everything from static to src, so it would see that static is not used directly. My guess is this solution doesn't work well with "hugo --watch". I'm curious what your local development setup is like?

Re: A step-by-step guide: Hugo on Netlify

mattstratton — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:16:39 -0000

I take it back. It doesn't work. The first site that I tried, I thought we were having issues because I wasn't setting --baseURL, but then it turns out that we don't actually use it. Then when I tried this on a site where we DO use it...it doesn't work. How do I access environment variables in the build command?

Re: Introducing Deploy Previews in Netlify

mattstratton — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:08:12 -0000

I presume that different previews are generated and kept for different branches? So if there are multiple PR's in flight (from different submitters/different branches) they won't stomp on each other?

Re: A step-by-step guide: Hugo on Netlify

mattstratton — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:57:34 -0000

Turns out, it worked just fine! I just added --baseURL URL to the command, and voila!

Re: A step-by-step guide: Hugo on Netlify

mattstratton — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:50:37 -0000

This is super rad. We are definitely interesting in moving at least the build portion of our site(s) (I manage two Hugo sites) over here, and possibly eventually the hosting.

The problem we have right now is with previews. We make heavy use of the baseURL variable in Hugo, the all the links in the preview site render with our production URL. There is a flag to hugo where you can pass the value of "baseURL", which I assume I can get from the URL environment variable...but I'm not sure if that is available to me in the build command?

Re: Open Your Stack with JJ Asghar

mattstratton — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:49:32 -0000

We definitely were aware there were challenges in the audio with this one, and Joe (our valient editor) did what he could to pull it off. We have control over the sound environment for the hosts (mic quality, bandwidth, background noises) - there was some last minute issue where JJ couldn't banish his kid (hehe), but we thought the content was worth keeping the episode. Thanks for the feedback, though - I personally put a high bar on audio quality for the show, and this was a challenging one. We chose to keep it for the content.

Re: LINE Disney Tsum Tsum Tips and Tricks to get Tsum more

mattstratton — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:43:32 -0000

Please feel free to add me to LINE for this fun game! I'm mugsymalone.

Re: A Participant's Conference - DevOpsDays Chicago 2015

mattstratton — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:37:50 -0000

Dang. The link to Carolyn's post is no longer valid :(

Re: Technology < Partnership

mattstratton — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:52:48 -0000

Thanks, Michael! I definitely have enjoyed partnering with you and your organization through this journey! Hope to see you at ChefConf this summer!

Re: Switching Teams: From Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

mattstratton — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:59:35 -0000

Thanks for the clarifications! This is a super useful addition of resources and I'll add the links to the show notes soon (or make Trevor do it!)

Re: Switching Teams: From Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

mattstratton — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:58:32 -0000

Ha! Trevor just told me in Slack that he was going to invite you to a future episode. That would be super fun!

Re: DevOps and ITIL: It’s Not Your Mother’s ITSM!

mattstratton — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:45:54 -0000

Coincidentally, we just talked about this on Arrested DevOps with Steven Boyd, a certified ITIL Master. It must be the time of year for talking bout ITIL and DevOps! https://arresteddevops.com/...

Re: DevOps Days Chicago 2015 - Carolyn Van Slyck

mattstratton — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:19:03 -0000

Thanks for the great feedback, Carolyn! We had a great time putting on the event, and the participants are what made it amazing.

Re: I'm so excited. I'm about to join Chef and I think I like it! /August 29, 2015 by Matt Wrock

mattstratton — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:25:29 -0000

Another Matt at Chef! I think we have three now. WE ARE TAKING OVER.

Re: Your Blog Post Title Here...

mattstratton — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:56:48 -0000

"Push capabilities are now available in Chef, albeit only in enterprise versions."

This has not been the case for almost a year. Push jobs are OSS and freely available.

Re: OftenType for iOS lets you use shortcut buttons for commonly used phrases while typing

mattstratton — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:13:10 -0000

You've been able to do the same in iOS for a while. Keyboard shortcuts are nothing new on either platform. I guess the appeal of this approach is you don't need to remember them? :)