so-you-wanna-see-an-image
We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering…
Linux
Useful bash oneliner: List Server IP Addresses
for i in $(/sbin/ifconfig | grep addr: | cut -d’:’ -f2 | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | grep -Ev ‘^$’);…
I have to say
this is amazing: http://jan.kneschke.de/2007/10/7/wormhole-index-reads and I cant wait to try it somewhere!
Autumn Leaves Leaf #3: Commander
This leaf is capable of running a script on the local server in response to the !deploy channel command. For…
Autumn Leaves Leaf #2: Feeder
This handy little bot keeps track of RSS feeds, and announces in the channel when one is updated. (note: be…
Autumn Leaves Leaf #1: Announcer
This bot is perfect for anything where you need to easily build IRC channel notifications into an existing process. It’s…
Autumn Leaves (a ruby framework for IRC bots)
What an awesome awesome thing for people who use IRC in their day to day lives! I’ll post a couple…
Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”
root@server:/dir/ # ls | wc -l 1060731 root@server:/dir/ # for i in *; do rm -v $i done; done me@home:~/…
Scripting without killing system load
Let us pretend for a moment that you have a critical system which can *just* handle the strain that it’s…
All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.
Occam’s razor strikes again! Tonight we ran into an interesting problem. A web service – with a very simple time-elapsed…