PaperMC on Raspberry Pi My son is deeply invested in Minecraft and has been asking for a Minecraft server for a while. I’ve been looking for a Raspberry Pi project to do with him and this seemed like a good fit. Previously, we’ve hosted our Minecraft server on GCP as well as locally using Docker (combined with docker-compose). Adapted from Raspberry Pi 4 PaperMC Minecraft Server (RpiOS Lite) ...
A New Beginning A couple of years ago - in 2016, I think - I stopped writing for various reasons. A significant one being I became a parent and found that I enjoyed devoting all of my free time to endless child-driven adventures. I also worked in Open Source, actively contributing to projects, and engaged with a globally distributed community. All of my itches were being scratched. A few years ago I wanted to start writing again but discovered a problem. The version my static site generator (Pelican) was pinned to was vastly outdated. I also had enough custom code that porting it to a more recent release felt overwhelming. ...
Monitoring The fourth quarter of 2015 for our team at Mozilla was a really great one. Across the group we had a well rounded list of goals supporting project initiatives as well as ones that were forward facing. Among the forward facing goals, a few of the areas included improving our code quality and the exploration of new techniques and technologies for assessing project health. I personally gravitated towards the latter when I was considering a deliverable. Over the past several years I’ve been keen on understanding the various roles that monitoring and logging tools play when accessing the health of complex software systems. I also want to see a checklist of practices emerge that our team can use when assessing a new or existing project. ...
oneanddone.mozilla.org is an application that is a vital ingredient to Mozilla QA’s community strategy. At it’s start, the project was originally initiated and designed by the community to address the problem of discovering meaningful ways to contribute to Mozilla QA. In its simplest form, oneanddone.mozilla.org allows community members to browse project tasks and upon finding one that resonates with them, begin working on it. The development of the project as well as continued shaping of its features are handled both by the community as well as by the QA team itself. Project ideation and community engagement is handled by Rebecca Billings, Karl Thiessen, and Bob Silverberg. Code management is accomplished on get github.com/mozilla/oneanddone. The deployment pipeline (stage, production, etc) and hosting are handled by heroku.com. Feature triage and ideation, in bugzilla. ...
Boulder QA Meetup - Discussion on CD I recently visited with a group of software testers up in Boulder, Colorado to discuss peoples thought’s and feeling’s about Continuous Delivery. The trip highlighted that this conversation still covers unfamiliar ground among software developers and testers alike. As a few of you are likely to acknowledge I have strong opinions on this subject. I purposely left my opinions at home, I wanted to observe the natural progression of the conversation among the group. ...