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jacquesct

10 karma · joined July 31, 2013

Kaizen Gardener. ex-Lumenite. ex-Operations Engineer at NPM, Inc. ex-Joyeur. ex-TextDriver.
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jacquesct··on Kholsa ordered to open the gate to Martins beach
Can't he just get everyone to sign waivers to access his property to go to the beach? Or display a if you cross his property people do so entirely at their own risk?
jacquesct··on Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro
Any hints at what filesystem you are moving Strongspace over to? Assuming that you will be moving off SmartOS as well?
jacquesct··on Cloudflare is fighting one of the largest DDoS attacks in history
What would be interesting is for Cloudflare to mention how much traffic is hitting which of their locations and how isolated the traffic is.
jacquesct··on Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries
The link above (http://cl.ly/image/0O0N183x2F44) does not work FYI.
jacquesct··on Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
Need help with the VCL with Fastly? Drop me a line to my name minus ct @npmjs.com.
jacquesct··on TextDrive shuts down
What was an added bonus is in those days rails core members were providing rails support on TextDrive.
jacquesct··on TextDrive shuts down
As I recall your account was cancelled by Joyent for abusing the support staff and you were offered a refund at that time of your account.
jacquesct··on TextDrive shuts down
Both wikipedia records need some good rewriting.
jacquesct··on What's happened to TextDrive?
http://kaizengarden.co/lp/textugees is the ex-staff solution to TextDrive.
jacquesct··on What's happened to TextDrive?
Was told the other day that "Well, we’ll settle up as soon as I can". Not sure that day will ever arrive. :/
jacquesct··on What's happened to TextDrive?
Sad but true.
jacquesct··on What's happened to TextDrive?
Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(
jacquesct··on Ask HN: Investors asking us for another technical co-founder
Is the CTO the only developer which you have on board?
jacquesct··on Ask HN: Server Management Best Practices
Chef for configuration files. Customisations for Chef Attributes are in a json.php file on the chef host that merges various things like specific settings for a datacenter, host role, etc.

Google Docs for certain information as well as a wiki. There are Standard Operating Proceedures (SOP's) for numerous tasks also in the wiki which explains things in detail.

Munin for graphing along with some metrics being polulated into Zabbix.