Matthew Broberg mbbroberg

A Gopher Rising

Inspired by Maya Angelou's Still I Rise

You may walk through my GitHub history,
With it’s non idiomatic and fragal lines,
You may value me less than dirt,
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

A guide about accepting contributions for Open source projects.

Ever since you could send patches by mail we'd interact over thousands of miles, exchanging code snipped between people we don't even know beforehand.

That and the transient nature of contributions might be the main the reasons it's very hard to find out why things go wrong.

The guide tries to pin down most common issues and bring to light some possible reasons.

I'm writing based on my experiences with some projects, the feedback I heard from frustrated users and overloaded devs. In case of Check_MK I've even seen all sides, but this writeup is based on a lot more projects / interactions. In most cases I'm just a mere user. At rare times I've been intrigued, but most often I've been driven mad.

Product managers

Seek out failure, it teaches us to think like a scientist. If you start with a hypothesis, then try to prove yourself wrong, you’re bound to make much better decisions. You have to be willing to fail, and that in itself is going to help you build confidence and be more convicted about what your strategy is in the end.
There are hundreds of methods for building products and running teams. As a quality PM, it's important to have an open mind about all of it, but finding your own process and philosophy can be grounding. It helps you find your pillars so that you don't smash into things while you're building. Remember, however, that you can always find a budget for remodeling. 😉
The beauty of a good process is when it just becomes how you do your work. When you forget you're following a process at all is when you know the process is working for you, your team, your company, and your customers.
The advice I give new Product Managers or PMs coming onto a team for the first

Working with ansible-vault

I've been using a lot of Ansible lately and while almost everything has been great, finding a clean way to implement ansible-vault wasn't immediately apparent.

What I decided on was the following: put your secret information into a vars file, reference that vars file from your task, and encrypt the whole vars file using ansible-vault encrypt.

Let's use an example: You're writing an Ansible role and want to encrypt the spoiler for the movie Aliens.

	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import requests

	url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism'
	# get contents from url
	content = requests.get(url).content
	# get soup
	soup = BeautifulSoup(content,'lxml') # choose lxml parser
	# find the tag : <img ... >
	image_tags = soup.findAll('img')

	This gist captures what needs to be done to add a new field to Riak's Yokozuna
	search index.

	Sources:
	- https://github.com/basho/yokozuna/issues/130
	- http://riak-users.197444.n3.nabble.com/How-to-update-existed-schema-td4032143.html

	The code below is for illustration purposes only. Use at your own risk.

	1. Create/Update new schema file

	Gartner:
	https://www.gartner.com/doc/2867017/-planning-guide-overview-architecting
	https://www.gartner.com/doc/2929317/framework-evaluating-big-data-initiatives
	https://www.gartner.com/doc/2773117/security-futures-plan-peak-threat
	https://www.gartner.com/doc/2691917/big-data-needs-datacentric-security
	https://www.gartner.com/doc/2621115/big-data-analytics-requires-ethical

	Books and Training:
	http://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Big-Analytics-Discovering/dp/111887613X
	http://www.kaggle.com/competitions#getting-started

	#!/bin/bash
	# Script to export Safari's reading list into a text file, then import this into Pocket or Evernote (or any service with a "email in content" feature).

	# First take all of Safari's Reading List items and place them in a text file.
	/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 -o - ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist \| grep -E -o '<string>http[s]{0,1}://.*</string>' \| grep -v icloud \| sed -E 's/<\/{0,1}string>//g' > readinglistlinksfromsafari.txt

	# Now loop over each of those URls within that text file and add them to pocket.
	while IFS= read -r line
	do
	echo $line

	from optparse import OptionParser, make_option
	from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect
	from pyVmomi import vim, vmodl
	import argparse
	import atexit
	import sys
	import urllib2, urlparse, base64

	vmxPath = []
	dsVM = {}