Category Archives: Daily Links

Playing with the Fitbit API

Posted on March 17, 2011 by ajohnson

A little over a week ago I had major back surgery (spinal fusion of L4-L5 and a laminectomy on both L1 and L2) and as part of my recovery plan I bought a Fitbit so that I could game myself, … Continue reading →

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Links: 3-16-2011

Posted on March 16, 2011 by ajohnson

A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections | Poynter. Some great tips for people managing a community or building software for communities. (categories: comments moderation socialsoftware metafilter community )

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Links: 2-20-2011

Posted on February 20, 2011 by ajohnson

Measure Anything, Measure Everything « Code as Craft Quote: "If Engineering at Etsy has a religion, it’s the Church of Graphs. If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph of something that isn’t moving yet, just in … Continue reading →

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Links: 2-6-2011

Posted on February 6, 2011 by ajohnson

How does Etsy manage development and operations? « Code as Craft More great stuff from Etsy on how to run an operation. (categories: business engineering operations culture ) Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture In-Depth Analysis Good take … Continue reading →

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Links: 1-24-2011

Posted on January 24, 2011 by ajohnson

paperplanes. The Virtues of Monitoring Great list of monitoring, logging, error, paging tools. (categories: deployment infrastructure monitoring sysadmin )

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Links: 1-15-2011

Posted on January 15, 2011 by ajohnson

Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 – search.cpan.org AWESOME article on localization. (categories: i18n linguistics localization )

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Links: 1-10-2011

Posted on January 10, 2011 by ajohnson

37signals Product Blog: New in Backpack: SMS events to your calendar (experimental) Backpack, SMS, Twilio: add events to your calendar using SMS. Clever little hack. (categories: twilio sms txt ) Marco.org – Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search Find that … Continue reading →

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Links: 1-6-2011

Posted on January 6, 2011 by ajohnson

Griffin Technology: CarTrip – OBD-II Hardware Interface Very cool little device for getting car data. (categories: mobile car iphone garmin )

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Links: 12-31-2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by ajohnson

Chaos Monkey: How Netflix Uses Random Failure to Ensure Success – ReadWriteCloud Chaos Monkey randomly kills instances and services within Netflix’s AWS infrastructure to help developers to make sure each individual component returns something even when system dependencies aren’t responding. … Continue reading →

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Links: 12-20-2010

Posted on December 20, 2010 by ajohnson

Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% spam. – A Computer Scientist in a Business School Turk being used a ton to game social media / status / reputation sites. (categories: amazon socialsoftware spam )

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