Aaron Halford

Cloud developer and administrator. Android, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux user. Reader of books. Also happily married.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Rackspace was one of my 1st dedicated hosts. A+ services & support. Hoping that quality can persist after being bought out by Apollo Global.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Installed Visual Studio Code for a rest run. Microsoft makes software mistakes but this editor is not one of them. It's better than atom.io

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Updating 288 applications on a system that hasn't been booted in months is easy. The rebooting process afterwards is the nerve wrecking part

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Trying out spacemacs editor. As a vim user I've never used emacs before so my initial impressions are mixed. Pro: well designed defaults.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Wants to acquire a Google I/O 2016 Android Andy figure for my collection. But not at the current asking prices... yikes.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Currently getting things done by reading Amazon Web Services devops exam material while finishing updates on an Arch Linux install.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

After 4 months of forgoing Twitter usage, I can honestly say the digital distractions are not missed.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Ubuntu Linux version 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released. Download
https://t.co/vdnhYzZxbk Happy upgrades :)

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Android Marshmallow = So far so good...

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Blessed is the developer that uses two factor authentication. Cursed is the user that clings to one universal password. #webdev #devops

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

CEO on a podcast claiming 11 million plus in revenue. The next day the CEO fires 400 employees and implodes the startup. Can't make this up.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Attempted a retail Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 upgrade. This was the result and why my dev laptops run Ubuntu.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Android tablet + git clone + text editor = productivity while traveling on a boat. #gtd #currently

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

... actually, scratch that. I'm thankful open-source devs got some recognition for their code commits. That's a trend that should continue.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Envious of dev's @AtomEditor gifts for pre-1.0 pull requests. Mine was eradicated (a small README edit for Ubuntu troubleshooting). Oh well.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Some developers don't appreciate authority and terms of service like they should.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

To be honest, @github has come a long way from the debacle of last year's PR nightmare. Progression, not regression, is key moving forward.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

I can't believe devs that use @github are complaining about pull requests that ask for gender neutral language and removal of profanity.

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

#NeoVim + #Vim splits + :term mode = functional for simple command line multiplexing but it's not a #tmux replacement. #devops #webdev

[Aaron Halford @aaronhalford]

Oh wow. Hulk Hogan joins Dog the Bounty Hunter and dozens of other folks in the "made an extremely racist tirade and got caught" club.