David Sloane and the Computery Blog

Earlier this year, I took advantage of one of the unique benefits at Harvard, and enrolled in "Introduction to Computer Science", ...

The guys who wrote The Visible Ops Handbook - an indispensable ops book - wrote a novel called The Phoenix Project , about DevOps. I have ...

My friend Lauren Shuffleton interviewed me for her project, The Somerville Connection, about why I live in Somerville, and how it's chan...

I was leaving one job and taking another, and thought I'd share some tool suggestions for my multi-platform-admin friends.  So I wrote t...

In responding to a question about planning your IT staff requirements in LinkedIn Answers today, I realized two things:  1. This could m...

After spending the past six months working in the Obama 2012 campaign's IT team, and returning to Boston, I've been thinking about t...

Facebook's photo-tagging has become a tool for unscrupulous advertisers to reach social media networks. Anecdotally, the biggest offe...