Life and times of a hopeless technologist
I deal with a lot of different clients on a daily basis. It is a bit of a chore to figure out how to tie together their different messaging apps in order to interact with them and be alerted of any needs or emergencies. The Problem Most clients nowadays use either Slack, HipChat, Google Hangouts, […]
Capacity planning is not a black art. But when it comes to sites doing a scheduled flash sale or a person with a large number of social media followers (over 1mil) it can get ugly fast! I witnessed this today for a site that was opening up new memberships at a specific time. Their site […]
I have been somewhat of a terminal junkie for well over 20 years. Right now some of my favorite CLI applications are: Rainbowstream – Twitter on the command line IRSSI – IRC client (works with Slack too!) MUTT – email client MOC – music player htop – top but prettier finch – basic Pidgin for […]
I use many devices in many places and find simple set-it-and-forget-it services like Dropbox make my life much easier. I always need access to many different files on a daily basis. Yet I like many others are not comfortable with some of the privacy policies or terms of service most 3rd party services force you […]
I have been using an Ubuntu desktop for the last few years doing the version upgrades and having no issues to speak of with it. But I also started to notice that the system was being a bit slow with larger applications like Firefox and others. Recently I have been moving back to my roots […]