According to GoodReads I read 17 books this year. Here are some I really liked.

Vagrant is a fantastic tool for defining how virtual instances are to be run and provisioned. I’ve used Vagrant with Chef-Solo and Ansible provisioners and it’s helped me understand those tools and iterate quickly. There are some gotchas however and in this post I will explore a particular flaw in the way Vagrant and Ansible cooperate.

Logic programming is an odd beast. As I lounged around over the holidays I tried to work out how to write a Secret Santa algorithm using core.logic. It seemed like the obvious choice but I quickly realised I’d bitten off more than I could chew.