July 2010
3 posts
run-it
I deployed a NodeJS Express app behind an nginx reverse proxy and wanted to have the node process supervised so it would automatically be restarted after crashes. I learned about a nifty service supervision suite called runit (inspired by D.J. Bernstein’s daemontools) from working at Cloudkick that would be perfect for the job. runit has a prgram called runsvdir that monitors a particular...
Jul 21st
Slow sudoing
I’ve been noticing that using sudo was taking an unusually long time to execute on my prgmr server—commands like sudo vim /tmp/foo would hang for 3-5 seconds before finally opening vim for editing. I assumed it was due to poor I/O in a shared environment, but it persisted for a while so I finally decided to investigate. It turns out every time you use sudo, PAM tries to resolve your IP....
Jul 21st
1 tag
“To make it hard to quit they got a dog together. It’s supposed to be the...”
– pg on the founders of WePay.
Jul 9th
February 2010
1 post
Feb 3rd
November 2009
1 post
Nov 20th
August 2008
1 post
delicious Bookmarklet for Opera
Compatible with the recent delicious update: “post to delicious” bookmarklet
Aug 6th
May 2008
1 post
Hung Up on SSH?
”~.” to disconnect.
May 27th
1 note
July 2007
1 post
Guilty Pleasures
I sometimes edit my .emacs file in vim.
Jul 25th
2 notes
June 2007
2 posts
Oy! Traffic Cops
I just discovered a show called Traffic Cops that airs on BBC One/UKTV People. It’s essentially the British version of “Cops” with less trash. The British police look pretty spiffy in their uniforms and Volvos.
Jun 18th
Slim-Vim
Larry Clapp announced that he is abandoning development on Slim-Vim. :(
Jun 2nd
May 2007
3 posts
Spork Ion3
Tuomo Valkonen on Ion3: “I’m not going to make it easy for all the forkers…” What a prick. I’m going to give xmonad a shot.
May 27th
HTTP Referer
I was writing a WordPress plugin earlier today and noticed an inconsistency in spelling while referencing other plugins.. Wikipedia on Referrer: “Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, in fact, that it made it into the official specification of HTTP – the communication protocol of the World Wide Web – and has therefore become the standard industry spelling...
May 26th
1 note
Ellipses
Ellipses are too long. I prefer to use “..” as a fair middleground between a period and full-blown ellipsis.
May 26th