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Node.js for Web Apps? Not so much.

I'm sure I'll catch some flak for this from the Node.js community (which does seem to be thriving) but I'm just not seeing Node.js as a viable platform for building web applications. When I say web application, I specifically mean [...]

How a kindergarten teacher impacted my life

If I were writing this at the time, it probably would have been more of a diatribe than an insightful look at how someone shaped my life. The year was 1986 and I had just finished up a short stint [...]

Lessons learned about directory based sharding

"Too many files?" is what I said in disbelief when I was having issues restoring a Linode backup a while back. I was sitting on over 10 million files after I had moved a metric shit ton of data from [...]

Getting real IP addresses using NodeBalancer and Nginx

This one's pretty simple, but it's not documented by Linode and most of the sites I found on Google were people ranting about a lack of documentation but failing to provide their solution. The situation is this, I'm running sites [...]

CSS ALL THE THINGS!

Just realized that I've been spending quite a bit of time in the trenches with some CSS: My Projects LESS Grid Grid is a mixin for LESS, the CSS pre-processor (http://lesscss.org) for generating custom grid systems. The goal of the [...]

Linode vs. DigitalOcean

I've been seeing a lot of these posts popping up recently and figured I'd weigh in on the matter. Since everyone seems to be including benchmarks of disk I/O and such I'll not only omit those, but I'd like to [...]

My departure from CrowdSavings

Figured my birthday was a good day to talk about this in a public forum. Back in October I resigned my post as CTO at CrowdSavings.com in one of the most outlandish [even for me] exits I've been privy to [...]

Moving from Tumblr to Jekyll (and GitHub!)

As you may remember, I moved my blog (and my wife's blog and every other site blog I have) to Tumblr. At the time, it made perfect sense. Tumblr's platform is quite robust and they have a dedicated staff that [...]

Review: Anatomy Framework

From the developer, Nick Justice: Anatomy is a light-weight and responsive front end framework that invokes rapid development. I don't usually review anything on here, let alone a framework, but it's also not often that I get to use something [...]

Command line website uptime checker using the OS X Notification Center

Honestly, the title of this post covers all the bases of my pre-Turkey consumption proof of concept turned full on project. Just a simple Ruby script that parses a configuration file and checks to see if the site is up [...]