Almost 2 months ago, AWS announced a serverless chatbot competition. As I happen to have one of those lying around I decided to enter this competition.

Homebrew released version 1, Allo is available, and CloudFormation got some much needed love for usability.

This past week mostly looked to me as a lot more talk about the iPhone 7 and iOS 10 reviews, but there were a couple of unrelated software releases that interest me.

With Apple's announcements last week, I doubt anyone will be surprised that's going to be my main topic. Additionally though, there was the announcement of the new PS4 Pro.

A quiet week for tech news, but there were various pieces of Android related bad news, and I'll want to mention Apple's tax issues.

When using Docker containers to trigger Ansible configuration, you can run into an issue regarding Docker's virtual filesystem and SSH sockets. This shows how I worked around that problem.

The latest and greatest version of Android was released, and it has some interesting features. In the meantime, Rackspace was acquired and several things that I use have shut down or will/might be.

While following my own steps for resizing an EBS volume, I discovered that Redhat-based systems require more.

Go 1.7 was released, Intel will be making ARM chips and announces VR gear, and Microsoft open sources Powershell for release on Linux and the Mac.

Because Redhat-based OSes are slightly different from Debian-based ones, I ran into some issues provisioning an AMI with Ansible and Packer. This article is to ensure I can find the solution quickly in the future.