Evaluating Cloud Providers
Some quick notes after evaluating Vultr, Linode, and DigitalOcean.
Go Module Versions From Git Log
A Git configuration for logging Go Module compatibility versions.
Software disenchantment
A link to a post by Nikita Prokopov about being disenchanted with software development.
How I compute 2017
In 2013 I wrote How I Compute. I reread it recently and was surprised by how much had changed in the last four years, so I’ve decided to update it with a few of my new favorite things.
How I compute
How I do just about everything I do in more detail than you could possibly want.
Don't be evil
Wherein I move many of my internet services away from Google Apps.
Security on the internet
Basic security concerns for servers and email including encryption and password security.
World IPv6 Day: Intent to participate
Intent to participate in IPv6 Day 2011
Mass hardware failure
A few days ago I experienced something which I’m still scratching my head over… massive hardware failure across several independent systems. It started when my external hard drive which houses my backups died. The next day, my laptop died, and the day after that, my netbook started running extremely slowly, failed to boot once or twice, blue screened once, and has been showing all sorts of other symptoms (sporadically though, it works fine at other times).
Effecting Change Using Internet Media
This post was written for Blog Action Day 2009.
The internet shrank the world more than any other innovation of the twentieth century: tightening social and economic ties between businesses, cultures, and nations more thoroughly than the genesis of commercial flight, or the threat of atomic war.
Map of the internet dated Jan 15, 2005 courtesy of the Opte ProjectToday the internet is a staple of modern life. Broadband connections–once reserved for large corporations, research centers, and institutes of higher education–are now common place, and the fastest transcontinental networks can transmit tens of gigabits per second; a speed which will most likely become outdated within the next decade. It has opened new, and often exclusive, windows for business ventures of all sizes and has (in short) become an integral part of the functional corpus of our society.
Creating a Twitter widget with Feedburner
In a previous post I discussed using Twitter and FeedBurner to create collaborative podcasts. This post will also detail a way you can expand the reach of your tweets using FeedBurner: we’ll be creating a custom Twitter “widget” for your blog or website using FeedBurner’s “BuzzBoost” feature.
The first thing we need to do is get our tweets into FeedBurner. This can be accomplished by simply burning a feed of the following format:
Collaborative podcasting with Twitter
After reading about Rick Klau’s implementation of a collaborative podcast using del.icio.us I decided to do the same thing using Twitter. A quick read over the Twitter API and I had it set up and running. For those of you who don’t want to read Rick’s post, I’ll start from scratch and describe the idea and how I set it up.
The idea is simple, anytime someone mentions me (@SamWhited) on Twitter and includes a link to a media file (an MP3 for instance) the media file is automatically downloaded and synced to my Zune in the form of a podcast. Twitter makes it easy to re-tweet songs as well which is an added bonus.