stevekemp

Your volume is off a fair bit for us. Assuming you don't reuse them my wife and I will make 8-12 cups a day, which means 350 will last for around 35 days. Or basically a month. Additionally the…

Yeah I reverted from an Android to a Nokia 301. A week of batter life in my usage, although the specs claim a month or something silly like that. But these days it probably doesn't matter what p…

The aoropress is great, but I do find the price of the paper pretty annoying. I've now switched to one of the many metal-filters, which makes me happier.

I read a hell of a lot, and I really enjoy walking around charity shops to buy "random" paperbacks (about 50p each, or 15 for £5) I didn't want a kindle for the longest time, because th…

I get how this could be useful for things, like checking the inside of a steak. But my only concern is that I've cooked my whole life without worrying about temperature. I have now learned how s…

I store my music beneath a common prefix, and try to file it neatly: /srv/music/ /srv/music/$Artist/$album1/ /srv/music/$Artist…

You seem to have an issue with javascript. If somebody enters a string value with "<script>alert(3)</script>" that breaks it. For example: http://jsonblob.com&#x…

I think you echo my thoughts pretty well. I'm a photographer who probably has about £10,000 worth of equipment, and while I get paid every two-three weeks (Anywhere from £10-£150) it's some…

Personally I found it beneficial to have a "work computer", a "work phone", and keep things entirely separate from my home setup. That meant if I were working I'd use the ded…

Agreed. ucarp is almost trivial to deploy: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/678/Virtual_IP_... …

> You know, I always bowled better drunk. Me too. Snooker/Pool is also better. At the start of the night I'm sober and play a fair game, but at the end of the night after two/three …

The biggest problem is you cannot use `proxy_cache_purge` unless you pay for the commercial version/fork of nginx. That means you can't expire the cached content by URL.

mysql-proxy allows that, right?

I've been thinking along these lines recently, specifically service discovery for front-end load-balancers. Most (all?) of the available reverse proxies will stop sending traffic to a server that…

I wrote an application for sharing markdown text, which you can view only at http://markdownshare.com/ If you wanted to install it you'd need to fetch all the dependencies, confi…

The site I keep using is http://invoiceto.me/ which is nice and minimal.

Just simple things so far; desks, tables, and book-cases. One of the more enjoyable jobs was fitting some bookshelves beneath a recessed window, complete with a secret compartment!

Growing plants, building furniture, and photography are all minor hobbies. Over previous years I used to tinker with repairing, building, and modifying small steam-engines, but I seem to have lost int…

* Being unemployed isn't so bad. * Working in an open-plan office is hard, but not impossible. * Markdown is even better than I thought it was.

I use (my own tool) Slaughter for configuring about fifteen servers. The vast majority of configuration changes are: * Upload/update a configuration file, and if it resulted in a change then res…

You definitely win points for working over pure SSH, I love tools that do that. (Which include 'fabric', 'ansible', and similar.) Me? I like perl and I decided I'd write som…

I seems like you're restricting yourself to graphical clients, ruling out the (minor) changes introduced by things such as notmuch, etc. At the end of the day what people do with email is very mu…

Bytemark are a well-known UK hosting company, and they have their own cloudy/scalable setup at http://bigv.io/ Their legacy virtual machines, dedicated hosts, and the new cloud s…

Sounds like the host machine paniced/crashed/died, and your guest was killed rather than being cleanly shutdown. Once it came up the file-system check was executed where it either repaired o…

No, though I have had contract/job offers via github, and even once via Hacker News. (Both of which ironically I couldn't accept because they wanted onsite workers in London and New-York res…

Server optimization recipes: http://tweaked.io/ + https://github.com/skx/tweaked.io/ I've started this and done a reasonably good job, but it would ben…

I see from your site you're hiring for various positions, but currently all of those are listed as NY only. I spent seven happy years working remotely as a system administrator, for a company lis…

BigV is awesome, even if I might be slightly biased ;) That said there is the same problem there, if you specifically want access to more cores you pay for RAM you don't need - since the two are …

For a hosting company, offering virtual machines, the two most contended resources are CPU & RAM. Disk is practically free, even with SSDs these days. So it makes sense that they'd want you …