I moved back to Colorado in June of 2011 for a job at a great company with a bit of a shift in my engineering career. The main reason for moving back to Colorado was for this very reason. However, sometimes I like to tell folks that one reason for my move back was for [...]
I found the following Ops/DevOps/NoOps articles very good and interesting reads to get an idea of how different folks in the Web industry view and implement the traditional ‘Systems Operations’ role.
Adrian Cockcroft (NoOps)
John Allspaw (Ops/DevOps)
Mike Loukides (DevOps)
I’ve been familiar w/ IRC for ages now but I haven’t been on IRC consistently for some time until recently and because of this – mainly due to my current job role – I’ve been wanting to connect to my preferred IRC network – FreeNode – behind a TOR proxy. I simply want to be [...]
Like my electronic mail, I like to keep my analog (snail) mail down to a minimum – as streamlined as possible. Thus, this means receiving mail that I actually expect and want; and mail that I actually spend more than 3 seconds perusing. So, whenever I get mail that I don’t want – e.g. catalogs/credit card [...]
Spent 5 minutes today to check out Google’s new Android app. They call it ‘Androidify‘ and it allows the user to create an Android character-based avatar of themselves. You pretty much get a blank Android avatar and go through a wardrobe of options to skin the avatar to your personal tastes and liking. [...]
I wanted to describe a small hack (or loophole) that I’ve been exploting in Twitter’s new user registration service to register multiple Twitter accounts with a single GMail email address.
With Twitter (as with most web services) you can only attach one email address to a Twitter username – e.g. @CNN might use the email [...]
I think someone needs to push more for underwear with pockets so I don’t have to do the following anymore:
I see there is a company selling such underwear for men. If you search ‘underwear with pockets’ on Google they are the first search result (won’t link to them here). Now the only [...]
I was at a wedding dinner a few weeks ago. It was a Pakistani wedding ceremony. One day of many, in a nonstop month long confusing celebration of joy and ass-kissing.
I was seated at a round table with about 7 others around me. As usual, I was the odd-looking man out, since it was [...]
Twitter
- Had a great time at #gluecon. A great gathering of smart minds and ideas. about 9 hours ago
- RT @neha: I am starting a distributed systems reading group at MIT. Suggestions on papers to read? Current list here: https://t.co/X6zObjse… about 10 hours ago
- Evernote finally becomes a proper to-do app with new Reminders feature http://t.co/04Y8b2ErjS about 10 hours ago
- @rdio not a fan of this new gradient color scheme on mobile app. about 17 hours ago in reply to Rdio
- RT @launchany: Amazing first day at #gluecon. In case you missed it, here is the hub page for my notes so far: http://t.co/YgahUeUjXf 08:23:42 PM May 22, 2013
