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jonmccartie··on Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup
Yup. UTC dates are stored system wide. This post is just about determine the user's time zone. This has been helpful for various situations for us: for example, knowing the best time to send out a daily email to a user based on their TZ.
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Great idea, thanks!
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
That's the best compliment I've gotten all day. Thanks! :)
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
It didn't take long ... and I wanted to take a break from staring at my non-performant Facebook ads and making cold calls.
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
LOL! It was intentional. :)
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
The .php block gave me a good laugh. Great idea. Just rejecting /wp-admin.php should reduce load significantly. :)
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Good point. I didn't mention it in this post, but DO has a great article on getting started with firewalls: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Ack! Good catch! Fixed!
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Agreed. This is just a temporary solution for a small-ish app. Looking forward to solving those problems...
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Thanks, David. We use Heroku a TON at work and I absolutely love them. For my small-ish app, I just couldn't afford the extra cash to pay Heroku to manage my app. Thanks for reading!
jonmccartie··on Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
Good call. Thanks, man.
jonmccartie··on Show HN: SproutMark – Team Feedback System
thanks for the feedback, maxwin. I added some screenshots to the Features page. Thoughts? https://sproutmark.com/features