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• Setting up Logstash with Docker Revisited

  Feb 1, 2017 • 0 Comments

  This is an updated version of this post. This is a quick and easy way to get Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana up and running in Docker.

• Why is my node.js SSL connection failing to connect?

  Sep 27, 2016 • 0 Comments

  When an SSL connection fails in node.js, node.js usually gives you a helpful error message like “ECONNRESET” or “unable to verify the first certificate”. These errors don’t always tell you what is going wrong. Worse, if you go looking on stack overflow, you’ll usually get helpful advice like setting rejectUnauthorized: false or set the NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED environment variable to 0; these are terrible suggestions because the take away almost all of the security that you’re hoping to gain by using SSL in the first place.

  Here is a list of interesting reasons why node.js fails to connect to an SSL server, and how to fix them. If you have any situations you’ve run into that are missing here, feel free to chime-in in the comments below.

• Changing a Philips Hue Lightbulb when your Travis Build Fails

  Jul 13, 2016 • 0 Comments

  I recently set up a Hue lightbulb in our office to show red when our Travis-CI builds are failing, and green when they pass. This was done with a mix of AWS Lambda and IFTTT.

• Converting from coffee-script to ES2015

  Nov 18, 2015 • 0 Comments

  At my office, we’re a coffee-script shop. Of late, though, more and more of the cool features of coffee-script seem to be getting ported to Ecmascript 2015, and with node.js now supporting many of these features, I decided it was time to try out a small project in ES2015. The TL;DR here is that Babel is a nice way to access fancy ES2015 features, even ones that aren’t in the latest node.js, but Babel comes with a significant compile-time overhead.

• Windows 10 Upgrade

  Jul 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

  Upgraded to Windows 10 today. The Windows 10 upgrade should show up in your Windows Update, but if you’re impatient to can go to this link to download an app that will upgrade right now. Overall the upgrade was pretty painless, but here’s a few problems I ran into:

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