Author Archives: andrew

Keystone, Horizon, and multi-factor auth (part 2/2: Horizon)

Posted on March 4, 2016 by andrew

Now that Keystone accepts and checks auth requests with user/password/otp, we have to get all three from the user and get them properly packed into Horizon’s login request. Taking advantage of Horizon being backwards-compatibility, I upgraded our Horizon install to … Continue reading →

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Keystone, Horizon, and multi-factor auth (part 1/2: Keystone)

Posted on March 4, 2016 by andrew

Fair warning: This post documents a recent work project — it contains neither lush landscape photos nor close-ups of underwater creatures. — For a couple of years now the Wikimedia Labs team has had ambitions to deprecate our homemade OpenStack … Continue reading →

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gone rogue

Posted on February 25, 2016 by andrew
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Why I am still here

Posted on February 24, 2016 by andrew

Practically everything we do, from eating an ice to crossing the Atlantic, and from baking a loaf to writing a novel, involves the use of coal, directly or indirectly. For all the arts of peace coal is needed; if war … Continue reading →

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California Carnivores

Posted on February 1, 2016 by andrew

We finally made it to California Carnovores in Sebastopol today, and it was much bigger and better than I expected. It also turns out that sundews are incredibly photogenic. The guys who run this place are very serious about their … Continue reading →

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Neutrality 2015

Posted on November 19, 2015 by andrew

(what follows is an email I just sent to my tenants. In theory I should send this every year; in practice I forget to email most years, but at least I typically remember to buy the offsets.) Hello! This is … Continue reading →

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Ghost

Posted on October 18, 2015 by andrew

Some days you just want to sit on a beach and shoot video of ghost crabs. For roughly my whole life I’ve wondered why white-sand beaches only have white crabs and black-sand beaches only have black crabs. I figured that … Continue reading →

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El Yunque

Posted on October 17, 2015 by andrew

At the tail-end of a series of meetings in Puerto Rico, my work department took a tour of El Yunque National Forest. I was extremely excited to find the shrimp along the edge of our swimming hole and spent a … Continue reading →

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Lysmata, 30 days

Posted on October 16, 2015 by andrew

A month later all 7 little Lysmata shrimp are doing fine. Three of them had a netbox to themselves, and two of them were paired up. I didn’t have any trouble with cannibalism, and the shrimp grow slowly but visibly. … Continue reading →

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Lysmata wurdemanni

Posted on August 29, 2015 by andrew

After several failed attempts, I’ve just now succeeded in raising my first peppermint shrimp from egg to post-larva. I took a bunch of photos and videos, and they’re all terrible. This species has a reputation for being fairly easy to … Continue reading →

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