stevekemp

Sure; drop me a mail and I can test from the UK if that's useful. (Miredo tunnel here at home, or native IPv6 connectivity on my vps provider - Bytemark, in Manchester, UK.) Though I'm just …

I'm not a company, but that said I'm using node.js in a few toy applications. For example I have a HTTP-server in node that accepts POST requests and sends their bodies over to an XMPP serve…

Both have good features, both will be useful and interesting in a few years. Right now I'd not trust either of them, in production use. Even if you never spent 60 minutes restoring backups both …

I worked from home for seven years, and am doing so again as a contractor after a brief stint in an office that didn't work out (less than a month). Having two machines made sense for me, along w…

My biggest tip was to have a "work computer" and a "personal computer". Resist the temptation to switch the work computer on when you're not working. Otherwise you want to ge…

Interesting timing, as I came up with my own implementation last week: Code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Demo: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/e…

Here in the UK there are ISPs that will give out IPv6 allocations, but most people use `miredo`, or similar, to proved an IPv6 connection to the outside world. I host a fairly large number of domains,…

I'm a system administrator, and I've generally found that local people seem to remember me fondly and offer me work - whether it is tuning nginx, setting up a small cluster, or similar. Actu…

The other important piece of missing information is anything from the tail of the server's error-log.

I use bluetile, as it is a middle-ground between the default GNOME window-manager and a full tiling experience. As things stand I'm not likely to change any-time soon, because it does work the wa…

Reminds me of something I wrote to import Apache logfiles into a temporary SQLite database: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/asql/ …

A self-hosted alternative to disqus: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Its cool because communication is fun. (I will continue to plug my console email client to http:…

Although I stalled recently I had a great time using Leaflet.js on my Edinburgh pub-exterior site: http://edinburgh.io/pubs/ …

Thanks, I found that previously along with these two: https://github.com/phusion/juvia https://github.com/talkatv/talkatv Mine is obviously less mature, and…

If you're aware that it will be unlikely to take the world by storm, then complete it regardless. You'll probably learn interesting things, and have something you can use either for real, or…

I host SMTP for about 20 domains, and I think if your starting point is zero then you've just been lucky. Even for non-popular domains I get relay attempts, and spam deliveries, every few seconds…

I've always been of the opinion that I would eventually have children. I've also always believed, since age 25 or so, that raising children to be bilingual would be beneficial, pretty much …

> Yes, you have to set up nginx once ... This is the kind of thing that I've just started documenting at http://tweaked.io/

I've worked in this space, and sadly I suspect most people would struggle with it. Any newly-launched dating/hookup site suffers from the same problem: lack of users. You promote it, you se…

That sounds pretty cool actually. Assuming two servers had equal weight in MX records, such that mail had a 50/50 chance of going to either, you could unify it via fetchmail, or similar, if you …

Today I wrote about something similar: http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_is_unfortunate_that_many_compani... If you did (re)find the site please do post it as a comment. I like the idea of…

I started down the route of phone-interviews (two) before being told that I'd need to relocate to either Ireland or Switzerland, and that I'd need several in-person interviews to proceed fur…

I've been approached by different people at Google several times over the years, and I've always passed for two reasons: * You require relocation, with no remote options for working that I w…

I suspect one of us is misunderstanding the project, and I'm unsure which it is. There is already a curses interface, as per the (outdated) screenshots page: http://lumail.org/scr…

A console-based mail-client, with integrated Lua scripting: https://github.com/skx/lumail/ http://lumail.org/ …