I've been working a bit with Terraform recently to support managing some of our infrastructure at the Mozilla Foundation. In doing so I came across a problem I couldn't find a documented solution for, so today I'm going to publish a bit of a how-to in the hopes that folks…
TLDR; you can download TabSweeper here [https://github.com/cadecairos/TabSweeper/releases] What is TabSweeper I can't stand it when I've got more tabs open than I can see. Firefox (and basically all browsers for that matter) just doesn't have a useful way to manage tabs that is also compatible…
I've just made my latest project public: Autoku [https://github.com/cadecairos/autoku] (Watch closely above, you might notice a little guest!) Autoku is a command line tool for creating and configuring Heroku applications using configuration files i.e. "Infrastructure as Code". It allows you to specify exactly how your…
At Mozilla, we've been using Mattermost [https://mattermost.com] to facilitate communication between employees and contributors for the better part of this year. Mattermost is an open source (more like open core - but the team edition is still awesome), self hosted Slack alternative. It's been really great so far,…
Five or so years ago, I began an incredible journey [https://chrisdecairos.ca/greetings-open-source-community/]. My professor at the time, David Humphrey [http://blog.humphd.org/], introduced me to the concept of open source software and the Mozilla Project, and I dove right in. Thanks to my explorations in open source…
Configuring and running services for Webmaker is a real pain in the ass. (Webmaker services = Webmaker API, Webmaker ID, and Webmaker LoginAPI) There's database and caching services to install and configure, npm dependencies to install, native NodeJS bindings to compile (sorry, Windows), and database scripts/migrations to run. This makes…