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Here’s my presentation from ApacheCon in Austin, TX. I’m happy that I was invited to speak at the conference as it was full of awesome and talented people.

I’ve been using Google Voice for a long time. In fact, I started using it back when it was called Grand Central (which was an acquisition). It’s a great product, and I really love it. Unfortunately it has more or less been left untouched for the last few years. If you’re in the U.S., Google Voice works great. You can just forward your Google Voice to your …

As I was working on my upcoming presentation at ApacheCon, I was playing a little bit with cgroups inside Docker. What I found was that there aren’t a whole lot of documentation on this, so I figured I put together a quick blog post about it. Enable the LXC driver Assuming you already have Docker installed on Ubuntu 14.04, you will still need to enable the …

When deling with website migrations, you sometimes need to map out the old content such that you can create your redirect to the new pages. While doing this, I ran across this little helpful snippet. Just modify the URL to the sitemap and the script will print out all the pages. You will need BeautifulSoup 4 and Requests.

On the Secure Messaging Community nadimkobeissi: This afternoon, WIRED published an article praising Telegram, a mobile messaging app, for its privacy features and “hardcore encryption”. Telegram is an open source messenger that provides some encryption features — but it has come under legitimate scrutiny due to the exotic and unstudied…

Just ran across this great slide deck today over at GrowthHackers. Growth Hacking for Lean Startups from StratAlignGroup

Are they using Google Apps? Google Hangouts is great tool for video conferences…if the other party is also on the Google stack (Gmail or Google Apps). If they’re not, it it’s a dead end. Often time when scheduling conference calls, I ended up manually looking at the MX records to determine if I should use Google Hangout or Uber Conference. Since this process …

For some time, I’ve worn both my Pebble and a Fitbit Flex. Since the Pebble comes with a built-in pedometer, this bothered me a lot. As a digital nomad, you’re always looking at ways to reduce the things you carry around and I’m now happy to report that I have retired my Fitbit. There has long been various pedometer watchfaces available for the Pebble. …

» CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma! I’m really excited to announce that CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma.

GetCanary.io - Intelligent notifications The other day I had a Eureka moment while archiving the daily batch of notifications from various server tasks. Instead of having to read over ‘success’ messages, why isn’t there a reliable way to instead get notified when things do not work as expected. This is what our latest project sets out to solve. The title of …