Author Archives: mikegrb

Devops w/ Perl @ Linode PPW Talk Slides

Posted on October 27, 2011 by mikegrb

Earlier this month a gave a talk about Linode’s use of Perl for devopsy things at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Finally getting around to posting the slides online. I wanted to add some details so more of the slides made … Continue reading →

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Local Growl Notifications from Remote Irssi

Posted on June 12, 2011 by mikegrb

What I’ve tried, What I want Skip to the next section if you just care about the end result. In the past, I’ve had my remote Irssi client send UDP Growl packets to my static home IP that were then … Continue reading →

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Whole House Energy Monitoring

Posted on February 27, 2011 by mikegrb

I placed an order for a TED 5000 on February 10th. The TED 5000 is a whole house energy monitor — a kill-a-watt for the whole house. I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the products available in this … Continue reading →

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Bacon Salad & Zinik Owes Me

Posted on October 29, 2010 by mikegrb

First off, Zinik owes me bacon flavored donuts, the Internet says it, it must be true. I composed my first recipe the other night and figured I’d share it with you in the hopes that your doctor might hate me … Continue reading →

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Task Management with Hiveminder and Perl

Posted on March 13, 2010 by mikegrb

This is how I manage my tasks with Hiveminder on a weekly basis and the Perl script that helps me do it. I don’t really expect the Perl script to be useful to anyone as-is but portions of it may … Continue reading →

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Comic Genius

Posted on September 29, 2009 by mikegrb

This guy is a comic genius! Sheer hilarity.

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WebService::MobileMe uploaded to the CPAN

Posted on July 26, 2009 by mikegrb

Just a quick post to announce a new perl module I uploaded to the CPAN the other day. It’s still to be considered alpha quality as it is lacking error checking and other such necessary stuffs but is working for … Continue reading →

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YAPC|10

Posted on June 1, 2009 by mikegrb

I will be at YAPC|10 in Pittsburgh the end of June. Here’s a schedule of the talks I plan to attend. There are a few holes not because the talks at those time suck but because they rock so hard … Continue reading →

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Playing a Tone Through an Arduino Connected Piezo

Posted on March 23, 2009 by mikegrb

I’m working on a top secret project, all I’ll say is it involves the Arduino, Twitter, and the refrigerator, and needed to play a tone through a piezo connected to the Arduino. I looked around and the closest I could … Continue reading →

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