I've long been a fan of bash pipes and the unix philosophy of composability. The text stream interface is so simple to extend and build upon that once you create a simple command line tool that works over stdin and stdout you suddenly have interoperability with a tremendous number of …

Code walk through of predictive monitoring features of the CheckMK monitoring toolset.

Application architecture

The purpose of the project was to build an application that would watch a directory for changes and respond to directory events with a flexible set of actions.

I broke the problem into a few parts, which mapped well into separate processes.

1. Directory watcher. Responsible for responding to …

Python's multiprocessing library is pretty awesome, and it can make it much easier to build programs that exersize multiple cores in python. However, some libraries are known not to behave well with multiprocessing. You may be running into this problem if you see output like this from your program, in …

As with any data scraping tool, verifying correctness in BibleScholar's verse scraping utilities was pretty important. After my first run through verses, here is what I was seeing between versions. Note that this is before I added the ESV translation, which as you'll see below is the version with the …