"It's Not Right but It's Okay" -- A poem by Whitney Houston about continually evolving software projects.

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Today I learned more about sockets and ephemeral port exhaustion than I ever wanted to know. I normally take TCP as a given. #webscale #box #metadata #fail

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Next #devops steps for hyperbola: Rebuild machine from scratch on 64-bit kernel; use #docker and dockerize all services: nginx, staging django, prod django, MySQL; real deploy step; #git tag releases

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#django sure as hell doesn't make it easy to get at the database backend ... but the fact that I can is still awesome. Enabled post count badges on lifestream.

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Hyperbola, now with retina graphics! The logo and feed icons will come through as retina.

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Lack of agency is the thing I fear most as an engineer. It's something I need to get better at dealing with.

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Ways you can tell we have a major release coming up: Being in the office until 10:30 and 9:30 on consecutive nights.

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