hyperbo.la :: lifestream
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Most interesting learning from 2013: when it is appropriate to resist my engineer's temptation to build the perfect thing. #lean #failfast #box #metadata

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I'm getting ad targeted for foundationDB on YouTube during my vacation ... are we using it yet? #box #metadata #database

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Needed: #mobile optimized #django admin skin. Posting from my iPhone is less than ideal

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https://howfuckedismydatabase.com/ hehe database problems. #fail #scale

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wow link tags and auto RSS/Atom feed discovery ... welcome to the internet Ryan ... #fail ... I feel like #django is missing a template tag here.

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#nginx reverse proxying to django with HTTP/1.1 ... wish this config option would be the default.

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#PHP is just netcat ... the language of the web does not have a good HTTP abstraction. I'm envious of golang's HTTP package

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woo! #hyperbola is now #pep8 and #flake8 compliant! Woooo linting! #python

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And with about 30 minutes of downtime I've now got 2x the ram #devops

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running alter tables in production is terrifying #mysql ... just converted from MyISAM to InnoDB and added a bunch of #indexes

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#django 1.6 upgrade was a breeze. Just a single deprecation warning. #win ... took the opportunity to refactor some old code too :)