Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
From programming to everything else
In case you didn’t know, I started a podcast this year: No Manifestos. One of the interesting things about podcasting is that it’s difficult to know who’s listening. This has even been suggested as the reason for the genre’s success, as it prevents the aggressive tracking and reductionist analytics that have made such a cesspool…
I just did my first test-run of a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2. It’s not as tricky as it appears, although I ran into some snags, which I’ll document here. I also found these pages helpful: EC2 on Hadoop Wiki and manAmplified. First, make sure the EC2 API tools are installed and on your path.…
Well, it happened. I ran out of space on the 250 GB drive I use to develop AltLaw. Not all that surprising, although it did happen sooner than I expected. I’m deleting gigabytes of cached data — file conversions, mostly — just so I can get enough space to work again. But this makes me…