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jamtur01 / block_personal_appts
Created October 10, 2019 05:46 — forked from ttrahan/block_personal_appts
Google Apps Script to automatically create, edit and delete events on work calendar for personal calendar events. Instructions on how to set up can be found at https://medium.com/@willroman/auto-block-time-on-your-work-google-calendar-for-your-personal-events-2a752ae91dab
function sync() {
var id="XXXXXXXXXX"; // CHANGE - id of the secondary calendar to pull events from
var today=new Date();
var enddate=new Date();
enddate.setDate(today.getDate()+7); // how many days in advance to monitor and block off time
var secondaryCal=CalendarApp.getCalendarById(id);
var secondaryEvents=secondaryCal.getEvents(today,enddate);
version: 2 # use CircleCI 2.0
shared: &shared
working_directory: /go/src/github.com/riemann/riemann-go-client
environment: # environment variables for the build itself
TEST_RESULTS: /tmp/test-results # path to where test results will be saved
GO111MODULES: on
GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION: 1.15.0
steps: # steps that comprise the `build` job
- checkout # check out source code to working directory

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A sense of urgency

As a newcomer to the company, and indeed a returnee to larger companies after ten years in startups, I've been finding my feet and getting a sense of the culture of the organization. I'm really impressed by the principles of the organization. I'm especially taken with One Microsoft and the Growth Mindset constructs. Using these it has been easy to orient myself towards mission.

What was less appealing, and slightly disturbing, is a lack of a sense of urgency and ownership in the org. In a startup it is all about execution, you're a lean, capital constrained organization with limited human resources. You have to get the right stuff done in the finite window available to you. The tempo is fast, your goals are challenging, sometimes even seemingly unrealistic. But in the best organizations, individuals and teams move with a clear sense of mission and with urgency. They feel ownership and are deeply invested in their customer's success.

At Microsoft I'm struggling to see that sense of urgenc

#!/bin/bash
git clone https://github.com/riemann/riemann.git
cd riemann
lein deps
cat << EOF > ./riemann.config
; -*- mode: clojure; -*-
; vim: filetype=clojure
[ 25.975058] traps: gnome-shell[3218] general protection ip:7f767ebebd12 sp:7fff707077e0 error:0 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5600.1[7f767ebb6000+52000]
[ 26.821634] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating [\_GPE.XTBT.SPRT], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20180105/dswload2-350)
[ 26.821651] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [XTBT]
[ 26.821653] Initialized Arguments for Method [XTBT]: (2 arguments defined for method invocation)
[ 26.821654] Arg0: 00000000f46ed3a8 <Obj> Integer 0000000000000005
[ 26.821662] Arg1: 000000002ad9e656 <Obj> Integer 0000000002060002
[ 26.821668] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20180105/psobject-252)
[ 26.821674] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_GPE.XTBT, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20180105/psparse-550)
[ 26.821683] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_GPE.XTBT, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20180105/psparse-550)
[ 26.821693] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_GPE._E42, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20180105/psparse-55
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jamtur01 / Prometheus commands
Last active February 7, 2018 19:10
Prometheus on Kubernetes
kubectl create namespace monitoring
kubectl create -f ./prom-config-map-v1.yml -n monitoring
kubectl create -f ./prom-config-rules-map-v1.yml -n monitoring
kubectl create -f ./prom-deployment.yml -n monitoring
kubectl create -f ./prom-service.yml --namespace monitoring
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jamtur01 / prometheus.yml
Last active April 1, 2018 14:06
Example Prometheus configuration
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
evaluation_interval: 15s
rule_files:
# - "first.rules"
# - "second.rules"
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'prometheus'