xiljin

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by xiljin 3y ago
There are several options but Puma seems to be the most popular at the moment. A derivative of Unicorn named Pitchfork is also in the works from Shopify - https://github.com/Shopify/pitchfork
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by xiljin 3y ago
Megadosing B6 can lead to B6 toxicity/syndrome as a result of its longer half life and ability to accumulate in the system. Between multivitamins, energy drinks, preworkouts and food, it's very easy to go well above the recommend
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PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 Released(postgresql.org)
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by xiljin 5y ago
I've been using Sidekiq for years, rock solid and no complaints. However, this recent addition to the space seems to be gaining traction and appears to have an excellent feature set - https://github.com/bensheldon&#x2F
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by xiljin 5y ago
Back around 2000, I was writing software patches for a large telecom company. These patches had to be applied to live, inservice telephone switches and equipment that were powering public phone services - restarts and downtimes were not an
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by xiljin 6y ago
I discovered PostgreSQL in a similar happenstance sort of way - working at a large telecom directly out of college in the late 90s, tasked with setting up a MySQL backed webapp to manage some internal processes. Fortunately, I was unable t
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by xiljin 7y ago
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology for HDDs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T .
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by xiljin 8y ago
Don't forget that he was also quite a wordsmith (NSFW) - http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0050.txt
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by xiljin 8y ago
We're currently using Crystal 0.25.1 with the Kemal web framework to provide an online paycheck calculator for US based employees (it's basically a demo/tool for our SaaS based accounting, payroll and fund raising app). Reall
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by xiljin 9y ago
We use FreeBSD in production (SaaS accounting/payroll app) as a load balancing proxy/web server (Nginx) and outgoing mail server (OpenSMTPD) because it's a stable, proven OS with sane defaults. Thanks to OpenBSD, we get an a
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by xiljin 9y ago
For me, also a VIM kind of guy, Atom lets me use VIM movement keys in the file/project pane which grants me total mouse freedom. Another Atom bonus is that file additions, deletions and changes are flagged in the file/project pane
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by xiljin 10y ago
I use Linux and a window manager with 10 virtual desktops/workspaces, keyboard shortcuts let me instantly jump to or scroll through them. That said, I've never understood the need for multiple physical monitors. Maybe someone can
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by xiljin 12y ago
Our rails app generates dozens of accounting related reports on the fly in HTML and we use Flying Saucer to generate a PDF version - https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer To help minimize request time, we
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by xiljin 12y ago
Can you provide any more details on your stack and what you're seeing that blows away alternatives? I'm running a staging version of our Rails 3.8 app with MRI 2.1 and Puma in clustered/threaded mode and everything looks pret
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by xiljin 13y ago
I like to test drive new fonts whenever they pop up, but I always come back to Ubuntu Mono! For anyone wanting to see/try it - http://font.ubuntu.com/
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by xiljin 13y ago
Many people use something like denyhosts or fail2ban to help with brute force attacks. PF has built-in support for building rules with options which will throw potential attackers into a 'penalty box' based on certain factors lik
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by xiljin 13y ago
Same here. Ironically, a new travel planning site announcement just popped up on HN today in case you missed it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572902 CEO touts it as "World’s Best Travel Planner", we&#x2
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by xiljin 13y ago
royce, if you're ever interested in connecting your data to an online accounting app for nonprofits (with integrated fundraising CRM and payroll), I'd be happy to chat!
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by xiljin 14y ago
One of the issues I ran into when looking to migrate a multi-tenant Rails app to Torquebox was lack of schema support (eg. schema_search_path). I was able to workaround those issues using raw sql though.