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Recently someone brought to my attention this issue on Github. https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-scripts/issues/3 It’s a common problem. Awesome-looking project, how exactly do I install it to play with it? This is a perfect use case for ShutIt. I built it by setting up a skeleton directory, which creates a standalone ShutIt module: ./shutit skeleton /path/to/shutit/library/taigaio taigaio shutit.tk … Read more

Using ShutIt and Docker to play with AWS (Part Two) Previously I showed a very basic way of using ShutIt to connect to AWS. I’ve taken this one step further so now there is a template for automating: killing any AWS instance you have running provisioning a new instance logging onto the new instance installing … Read more

An edited talk I gave a while back on Docker and ShutIt:  

I’m using ShutIt to play with AWS at the moment. I can leverage the core libraries to easily build on top with my secret data and store in my source control system, and I’ll show how you can do this here. Firstly, there’s a core aws library that takes care of installing the aws command … Read more

I’ve posted previously on phoenix deployment, and thought I’d share an incident that happened that was resolved more easily because it was caught early. Got a ping that the site was down, so looked into it. Tried rebuilding the site using ShutIt and discovered quickly that apt-gets were failing. So what changed? I checked the network … Read more

I wrote a website in my spare time (themortgagemeter.com) a few years ago for a family member’s business tracking mortgage rates over time in real time. As an experiment I wrote it in such a way that the entire database would be backed up to BitBucket daily (as well as the running code on the … Read more

Docker, ShutIt and the Perfect 2048 Game (4 – Halfway There) Anyone care to guess the score at this point?  

Docker, ShutIt and the Perfect 2048 Game (3 – Brute Force Escapes)   Now that I’m getting near the end of the highest tile on 2048, the air is getting thin. I often get into a state like this: where I need a four – not a two – to drop in on the top. … Read more