Damon Clinkscales' Stumblings: Archive

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Jun 15th

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Simple CouchDB multi-master clustering via Nginx

karmi: I have been playing with CouchDB for the last couple of days a lot. And I like what I see even more. Couch seems to be extracted from the web so much, that it reminds me of my joy when discovering Rails couple of years ago. One of those impossibly great things is that CouchDB is completely „raw HTTP“-based. So, for instance, clustering is one of those things achieved so trivially it...

Nov 20th

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Aug 21st

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Aug 20th

Restoring accidentally suspended accounts

twitterstatus: Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts. We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours. One additional note: some the accounts suspended were using the third-party site Tweetlater. However, Tweetlater is not to blame for these...

Jul 6th

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Follower/Following delays [Twitter]

twitterstatus: We’re working to reduce the amount of time it takes for new follower/followings to take effect. Right now, after you follow or unfollow someone it may take some time for that action to be properly recorded and propagated throughout the system. As a result, you may run into discrepancies such as: follower and following counts are off new followings not showing up in your...

Jun 24th

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gary: My spot with @jimmyfallon last night I really enjoyed the spot and would love to see what you guys think!

Jun 18th

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Nice Rack.

May 12th

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@subelsky’s “Things Are Not Always Sunny in the Cloud” at RailsConf 2009. Good talk.

May 7th

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The Twitter Book by Sarah Milstein and Tim O’Reilly (a Sneak Preview) DoesFollow is mentioned in here.

Apr 28th

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Apr 24th

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This bunny showed up on our doorstep just before Easter. Video was uploaded to Vimeo with ______________, a cool new app by ________________.

Apr 24th

Apr 16th

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The Facebook Software Stack →

Filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe. Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook.

Apr 11th

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Apr 2nd

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100interviews catches @garyvee after his Q&A Keynote at SXSW 2009 in the hallway and talks about social media for a few minutes.

Mar 31st

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“We’re updating the Replies feature and referring to it instead as...”

– @biz on the Twitter Blog It’s a nice feature and I will enjoy having it. However, this feature was dropped on the developer community like a giant sack of potatoes. No warning. Just a big spud bomb. There are actually quite a few implications of this in the API side if you’ve been...

Mar 31st

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Mar 31st

Dublin Dr. Pepper Sightings (Austin,TX)

dublindp: Central Market (6-pack) Cabo Bob’s (Fountain) Mangia Pizza (Can,Bottle) Tacodeli (Bottle) Rudy’s BBQ (Bottle) Might Fine Burgers & Shakes (Bottle)

Mar 31st

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Austin’s own Hayes Davis presents to Austin on Rails on Building TweetReach Using Sinatra, Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, and Grackle

Mar 27th

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Sketch notes by Dave Gray sketched at Gruber/Mann talk at SXSW (via @shadr)

Mar 27th

50+ jQuery Examples →

via Steve Odom

Mar 27th

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Instructions for Using TweepDiff →

TweepDiff is a nifty Twitter tool that not many people know about. Think of it like Venn Diagrams for friends and followers on Twitter. TweepDiff was created by Brian Deterling (@bdeter) in Austin, TX.

Mar 27th

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A boom in online dating →

What this means is that my friend Steve Odom here in Austin really needs to launch his new reality-based dating site called ge.la.to.

Mar 27th

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Grackle (a simple Ruby library for Twitter) →

Hayes Davis has gone and made a dead simple Ruby library for working with the Twitter API. It smartly uses method_missing to relay calls to Twitter (similar to the way flickr.rb does). What this means is that the Twitter API can change or have bugs fixed and the library doesn’t need to be re-released. It’s really generic and returns results as OpenStructs. Cool stuff. I might...

Mar 27th

“1. Give away more stuff than you think you should and make it easy for people to...”

– Merlin Mann (read by John Gruber during the John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW)

Mar 27th

OtherInbox shows up on Werner Vogel's Blog

niblets: Good video plug of @otherinbox on Amazon CTO and cloud computing god, Werner Vogel’s blog: http://bitly.com/FAQRr

Mar 26th

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Cloud-based, networked, full-resolution gaming on cheap hardware. Steve Perlman does it again with OnLive by Rearden Studios. (via garrytan)

Mar 26th

John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW... →

This was incredibly fun to listen to. Oh, and occasionally useful too. (via brettkelly)

Mar 26th

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MacHeist 3 Bundle (buy it now!) →

12 (and possibly more) Mac apps for $39. Quite a deal.

Mar 26th

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Hail storm here in North Austin goes off on our driveway like a pack of Black Cat firecrackers.

Mar 26th

Mar 24th

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Mar 18th

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A SXSW Public Service Announcement from @damon

Mar 12th

Handling Ideas and Tasks

I have a lot of ideas, as I’m sure many of you do too. The way I’ve generally been handling them is to make sure to capture them when I think of them (if I think they are any good). If I don’t do this, I will most likely forget them. When I sit down to work on a project, I scan through the ideas/tasks. Sometimes something needs to be broken down into a smaller piece and I...

Mar 9th

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This is awesome. gary: The value of each viewer/user/customer is NOT THE SAME! After meeting with more and more marketing agencies it has become clear to me that people don’t understand a internet user, one that uses tools to spread their passions and interests, they are VERY different the a TV watcher that takes in the content and goes to sleep! All consumers are not equal and the quicker...

Mar 9th

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