6twenty

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Tauranga (NZ) Startup Weekend & Drinkup
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Typecasting boolean values in Ruby(drawingablank.me)
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Font mime types in Nginx(drawingablank.me)
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by 6twenty 13y ago
I actually found that GitHub Pages didn't scale well at all -- during peak traffic, response times slowed to over 10 seconds. This was my main motivation for the switch. Nginx (even on a micro EC2) should be able to handle very high load wi
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by 6twenty 13y ago
It's not free, that's true. But it's very cheap, especially when paired with Amazon's 1-year free usage tier. But the main benefit is the added control over the web server.
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How to host your Jekyll blog on AWS EC2 [Part 1](drawingablank.me)
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by 6twenty 13y ago
Posted an update with the new bounce rate (~10%) thanks to a flood of hits from HN: http://drawingablank.me/blog/fix-your-bounce-rate.html
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Use Google Analytics on your blog? Check your bounce rate(drawingablank.me)
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by 6twenty 13y ago
Feel free
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by 6twenty 13y ago
Ha, so far I like it here! Nicer weather than my hometown (Dunedin) :)
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Ask HN: Who's in Tauranga, New Zealand?
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LocalStorage + in-memory store(drawingablank.me)
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Fixing a gripe: code blocks on mobile devices(drawingablank.me)
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by 6twenty 13y ago
No I haven't, but that brings me back to the first question - how do you research which companies to contact?
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by 6twenty 13y ago
Great article. One thing I'm struggling with as a freelancer is finding clients - I'm based in a small town in New Zealand, so I'm a long way from the opportunities in the UK and USA. How do you track down and approach new clients (who are