Interview with me at On Ruby

Pay Eyler has posted his interview with me at On Ruby:

What are your future plans for Puppet?

I'm pushing toward a 1.0 this year, hopefully, as soon as I can get the critical APIs stable. I'm also hoping to add a lot of interesting functionality around making each host's resource catalog more useful outside of Puppet'e.g., you could have all of your resource relationships set up in it, modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and then tell Puppet to figure out what services need to restart because of that change.

As we move toward a more database-backed catalog, vs. the current YAML-dumped version, we'll get a lot more functionality out of it yet, and I can't really even see most of that functionality right now.

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 | Tags: me, interview, onruby, ruby

Bike Snob NYC

So, Joi Ito posted about his new bike from Mission Bicycles this morning, which led me to Bike Snob NYC, which is just hilarious. You can start with his interview_ of the Mission guys, or his post of fixie fashion, but so far (in the very few articles I've read) my favorite is his post on journalism about fixies, in which he provides an article template for those wanting to write about the fixie phenomenon:

Okay, but what about the part about not having brakes? While some fixed-gear riders do use brakes, others eschew them and instead slow their bikes by locking their legs and skidding. _____, a bartender, filmmaker, musician, and fixed-gear aficionado explained, It forces you to pay more attention and to stay a step ahead while youre riding. Instead of playing my iPod at full blast and only looking a car or two ahead, I keep the volume lower and look all the way to the next intersection. I feel much more like an integral part of whats going on around me. Its like a zen thing. You feel totally connected to the bike.

I'm a fixie rider myself, and I always make a point to take snaps of fixies I see while traveling, but the whole trend does seem to have gotten out of hand, especially with the focus on riding brakeless. Fixie is great, but stopping is better.

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 | Tags: me, cycling, fixies, fixed-gear