April 22, 2008
Rands, suffering from “The Groovymother Effect”
April 21, 2008
NGINX requests - by day
A blog post I wrote last night ended up on the front page of Reddit this morning. As of 2pm, I have had more unique visitors today than I had in January-March of this year combined!
My stack of nginx, Apache, Django and memcache all kicked in exactly as designed, and handled the flood of visitors without breaking (much) of a sweat, on a $25-a-month virtual server.
(Hat tip to Simon Willison for blogging about using this architecture. and inspiring me to preemptively deploy it on my own blog)
June 1, 2007
April 19, 2007
“groovy mother” :: First Post!
Lummy! It’s been five years since I started writing on groovymother.com. Gonna have to spend some time this weekend doing visualizations of my post history.
December 31, 2006
“Project threequarters” is live
Just launched my rebuilt and redesigned blog. It's still a bit on the brittle side, but I'm really happy with it as a first step.
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