Gavin Carr (gavincarr)

Gavin Carr

In Mumbai for a week of work and play. Pretty amazing place so far. Staying at the very gorgeous Taj Mahal Palace.

Gavin Carr Command Line Interface

#bash alias, print every Nth line: sample () { awk "NR % ${1:-1000} == 0" } e.g. cat foo | sample 10 !cli

Gavin Carr

Working: toy webhook to zeromq-pub-sub bridge, using sinatra #evilplans

Gavin Carr

Dang, github/heroku drinks in #syd tonight and I'm busy http://ur1.ca/81vfg :-( /cc @henaradegan @mattlandauer

Gavin Carr

Banking innovation in AU RT @UBank Thanks to your recent feedback when you call us on 13 30 80 you'll be updated on the current wait times

Gavin Carr

Hacking me some python. Trying to feel uptight and Type A to get in the right frame of mind.

Gavin Carr Brad Fitzpatrick

@bradfitz Excellent! Hope the weather improves for you - it's been cool and wet all summer so far. #syd

Gavin Carr Mark Pesce

@mpesce The US are apparently doing trials for the next Rugby World Cup

Gavin Carr

Complained to @lovelifeuke that non-US/UK peeps couldn't buy her music any longer except via iTunes, and she reinstated bandcamp. :-) #yay

Gavin Carr

Anyone know of a tool that will tell me which SSDs currently offer the best IOPs/sec/dollar? #qtcba

Gavin Carr

It's impressive that @nab's announcements page features 3 spellings of January, and 2 of "substantial" http://nab.co/yXexMN #pedantry

Gavin Carr Linux , Command Line Interface

Microbreaks via cron: 0 8-18 * * 1-5 DISPLAY=:0.0 notify-send -t 60000 'Stand up!' 'Time for a break ...' !linux !cli #geekery

Gavin Carr

Having fun messing around with #zeromq pub-sub patterns for throwing around metrics data. Multi-language consumers FTW.

Gavin Carr

@nab investor relations have just got back to me. They don't provide #feeds on their announcements "for security reasons". #seriously

Gavin Carr

Dear @nab, could we get an atom or rss feed on the announcements page please? http://nab.co/yXexMN And a spell checker ;-) #feedme

Gavin Carr

Ok, first-pass #collectd and #graphite setup and integration a success. Home-time! #metrics

Gavin Carr

#graphite url api docs http://ur1.ca/7kc8k

Gavin Carr

Wow the standard #nagios check_http plugin is stunningly fugly. Does --url take a url? Nope, it takes a path. #fail

Gavin Carr

Wow the standard #nagios check_http plugin is stunningly fugly. Does --url take a url? Nope, it takes a path. #fail

Gavin Carr

"Do not go gentle into that good night ... Rage, rage against the dying of the light." #SOPA