From time to time a client on WebFaction will experience a hiccup in their memcache process. It’s not obvious at first unless the site is under heavy load (New Relic is a huge help in diagnosing the problem); this post is just a central …
read more“I’ve put relatives in the ground with fewer tears.” — my mom
Last Sunday night we had to say goodbye to the gentlest soul I will probably ever meet. I’ve tried to figure out how to write this since then but it all comes out as a jumble …
read moreNew Relic’s basic agent (and the free 30 days of Pro we got up front) have been a huge help on one of my largest ongoing projects. Wanting more insight into our server after a mystery incident yesterday morning, I’ve …
read moreBecause I always forget and because I am getting into the good habit of connecting via SSH for everything, here’s a note to myself on how to get SSH deployment keys running in my typical process:
As befits what was an all-male school, the highlight of my 20th high school reunion occurred in the men’s room near the end of the night (with a conversation at the urinals).
Him: “What brings you here?”
Me [assuming he meant something other than the …
read moreEXT - DAY: An outdoor concert/ festival between acts. Our hero, TOM, just growing into his impossibly handsome looks in his late 30s strides purposefully toward Port-a-Potty Row. His path is interrupted by THE STRANGER, a younger man. Before TOM knows what is …
read moreWashing my high-horsepower, low-milage car as a break from my computer-based job while wearing Local Sports Team’s baseball hat and streaming music made by white males (see below) from my Apple phone to a Bluetooth speaker, I thought to myself, “Boy, you need to step …
read moreIf it’s of use to anyone, I wrote this fairly thick-headed script to look for the most recent versions of files matching one or more patterns in a directory, zip them up and back them up to Amazon’s …
read moreBecause I rarely use MySQL nowadays and because how often do you set up a new machine, this is a reminder to myself on how to get mysql-python installed in a virtualenv
Having recently had shoulder surgery, some advice: