Matt Williams

Author's details

Name: Matt Williams
Date registered: August 9, 2008
URL: http://matt@matthewkwilliams.com

Biography

Matt Williams lives in Columbus, OH, in a house filled with computers, cats, books and fiber. Pursuing the goal of being a modern Renaissance person, he plays with his daughter, cooks, roasts coffee, reads, weaves, studies, and hacks, including crazy ideas like a Cloud in a Box. Docker has been an especial passion since June of 2013.

Latest posts

  1. Weaving with Light Pt. 1 — August 31, 2016
  2. Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards — June 24, 2016
  3. Rules for Operations — April 25, 2016
  4. DevOps Creed (Work in Progress) — April 24, 2016
  5. I am not a Mindreader: a mini-saga — April 11, 2016

Most commented posts

  1. Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1 — 13 comments
  2. Docker, Cgroups, Memory Constraints, and Java: A Cautionary Tale, or Here be Reapers (sometimes) — 9 comments
  3. Shrinking Docker Images — 7 comments
  4. Rails & JRuby in a Jar — 7 comments
  5. rspec, restful_authentication, and login_required — 6 comments

Author's posts listings

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Sketchnote: The Nationwide DevOps Journey

The Nationwide DevOps Journey

Nov 16

Igniting Talks: a Learning Experience

I’ve been a bit quiet of late; been busy, to say the least. Work has been crazy (and will be for the foreseeable future), but among other things, I have been working on an Ignite style talk for DevOps Days Ohio. Why so busy? Well…. in part because it’s a more difficult type of speech …

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Nov 07

DevOps Days Ohio

I’m speaking at DevOps Days Ohio on the “3 R’s of DevOps”

Oct 09

Mounting Partitions from Image Files on Linux

I’ve been working with disk images from the excellent crew from Hypriot and there are times when I wish to mount the filesystems within to inspect and or make alterations to them. Since there are multiple filesystems, it’s not like mounting an ISO image — there’s more work which needs to be done. Being a …

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Oct 08

Solving File Filtering Problems with this One Weird Trick

One Weird Trick

I was asked an interesting question — how to create a regular expression which would allow a user to specify an arbitrary case insensitive series of strings, all of which must be on a line, as well as a series of strings which must not be on a line in order to filter logs. In …

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Oct 07

Hypriot Does it Again

Many thanks and kudos to the most excellent people at Hypriot on their latest release! Hypriot has made Docker on the Pi easy — prior to their distribution it took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to compile and get Docker working on the Pi. (Trust me!!! Been there, done that, have the t-shirt). …

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Oct 06

Ruby Enumerables ‘with_index’

Ruby’s Enumerable module provides a couple of methods for stepping through an enumerable with the index of the element as well. However, a couple are missing — there is no inject_with_index or map_with_index. There are a couple of ways of remedying this.

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Oct 06

Just because I Koan

"Rubin, biotyt, Ihosy, Madagaskar". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you. If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you. It is an ice cream koan. Ruby Metakoans In software, koans are a form of kata, or practice. There are a number of these; one of the first I’d encountered …

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Oct 05

Speaking at DevOps Days Ohio

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DevOps Days Ohio is taking place in 18-19 November 2015. I’m going to present an Ignite format talk on the Three ‘R’s of Devops. There’s going to a lot of great people that are going to be there. I am really looking forward to it!

Oct 03

Ally Skills Workshop

Today at Ohio Linux Fest I attended the Ada Initiative’s Ally Skills Workshop. The Ally Skills Workshop teaches men simple, everyday ways to support women in their workplaces and communities. Participants learn techniques that work at the office, at conferences, and online. The skills we teach are relevant everywhere, including skills particularly relevant to open …

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