Theresa May is a goddamn hero! She stood up for an impossible task: after David Cameron gambled and lost on a vote to leave the EU, none of the winners, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, that mole-looking weasel-guy whose name I forgot or anybody else […]
What’s Wrong with Service Desks these Days
It’s not a question, it’s a statement: I’ll describe exactly what’s wrong with them and my solution, nay, the solution to the problems. This is not some thinly veiled racist protectionistic “the problem is really outsourcing” manifesto, but rather a description of what is wrong with […]
Tableau is Pretty Neat
I often do analysis of logs. I have used many different tools, from a simple ad-hoc command-line analysis using sed and grep, over a more detailed analysis using Excel, and all the way to setting up dedicated reporting tools like Jasper Reports or Grafana. […]
Resetting amAdmin password in OpenAM
So, somebody1 forgot the administrator password to an OpenAM installation, and I needed to reset it. This is not a supported operation, and in the interest of being positive, let’s just say it was a journey with opportunities to make it work… First, this […]
Schrödinger’s Immigrant and Crushing Fascism
Here’s a juicy one in a totally non-controversial field: immigration. Today at work, the topic of Schrödinger’s immigrant came up, as it does. Schrödinger’s immigrant is the idea that immigrants simultaneously “take all our jobs” and “are unemployed and exploit the social system.” This […]
A Modern CI/CD Pipeline – Part 3: Development Street and DTAP
People are very into continuous integration/continuous delivery because they mistake continuous for smooth. I guess there’s a reason calculus jokes are not a big thing on the internet. I already wrote about a CI/CD pipeline I’ve developed using Gitlab, Maven, Fabric8 and Spring Boot. This […]