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Day job. The eternal safety net. The side projects can wait -- nay, must wait -- when day job comes calling.

Day job. The infernal contraption taking inputs of time and effort resulting in output of electronic signals which trigger my bank account balance to rise ever so slightly twice monthly.

Day job. Disruptor of sleep. Left to my own devices, I fall into 26 hour days. 17 wakeful, alert, upbeat hours followed by the inevitable sleep of what dreams may come. Day job forces a wake-up time. Day job doesn't care if you can't...

update
Hot on the heels of hivemind devops alert: nginx sucks at ssl, I issue another hivemind devops alert: nginx does not suck at ssl!

aftermath
After circulating my previous alert through the 'tubes, it became abundantly clear: nobody has any idea how SSL performance works. A few people suggested I was running out of entropy (nice guess, but wrong), many people mentioned ssl session caching (nice try, but not relevant when testing all new connections), and a few people chimed in about keepalive (nice try, but then results get skewed depending o...

Straight from the Colin's mouth, we have the Phase One tour schedule!

Our friends will play The Hazards of Love in its entirety at each venue followed by a short selection of the reasons we fell in love with them.

The tour starts May 19 and concludes at Bonnaroo on June 14. You can grab presale tickets now at the Decemberists presale ticket site. Your best prices for tickets will be through the presale site. Grab 'em while you can!

Tickets officially go on sale Feb 13 through normal outlets.

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tell people why test exists here.

Simple node client to import the public twitter timeline into couchdb running at http://127.0.0.1:5984/ (create the database at /twitter/ first).

Everybody can run 150 public API requests per hour which nets you around 3000 tweets per hour. The client polls the public API every 0.5 seconds.

Runs against 2010.07.16 node-v0.1.101.

#!/usr/bin/env node

var http = require('http');
var couch = http.createClient(5984, '127.0.0.1');
var twitter = http.createClient(80, 'api.twitter.com');

function p...