Week 40, 2016 - IoT Botnets; Docker on Windows; Organized AI

Botnets are making use of the Internet of Things, Windows runs on Docker running on Windows, and new attempts to make AI seem like a good thing.

Igor: Serverless Chatbot Competitor

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.

Week 39, 2016 - Homebrew; Allo; CloudFormation

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

Week 38, 2016 - iOS 10; Vim 8; GitHub; Angular 2

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.

Week 37, 2016 - PS4 Pro; iPhone 7; AirPods; Apple Watch

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.

Week 36, 2016 - Android woes; Apple taxes

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.

Baking AMIs from Docker using Ansible

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.

Week 35, 2016 - Android Nougat; Rackspace acquired; Services shutting down

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.

Increasing the size of a Redhat-based EBS volume

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

Week 34, 2016 - Go 1.7; Intel; Powershell open source

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.

Building Redhat AMIs with Packer and Ansible

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.