➠ October 4, 2009
You’re not going to care about any of this…
… but I’ve spent a Saturday night working on this stuff, so I’m going to share.
I’ve spent the evening getting groovymother.com up and running on a new VPS box from VPSLink.
Of potential interest to other nerds is the fact that the whole shebang is now running Apache-free. The Django app that powers the site runs under the coroutine-tastic Spawning. In front of that, and serving static files, is the still-sexy nginx.
The Spawning processes are started and managed by Supervisor, which also takes care of running and monitoring the jobs that pull in feeds and grab screenshots.
All in all, a tremendously productive, if really rather sad, Saturday night.
➠ August 24, 2009
The Snake Tweeting Its Own Tail
This evening, @cheever saw an automated retweet by @02138now of a tweet by @Sooz containing a picture of me wearing the Twitshirt of the tweet I posted last October which helped me leave Current.
He, of course, twittered about it. And I just bought his tweet as a t-shirt.
Congratulations, Twitter, for building one of the world’s leading “What t-shirt is Rod Begbie wearing right now?” systems.
➠ August 10, 2009
Another meta Flash game. Keep refreshing the page once you’ve “finished”.
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A worthy follow-up to “Achievement Unlocked”. One level Flash game, playable many MANY different ways.
➠ February 20, 2009
Probably of no interest to anybody but me, but the source code that powers groovymother.com is now publicly available on GitHub.
➠ December 20, 2008
The game where unlocking achievements is the only point of the game. Hint: Clicking the Hint link gets you a “Cheater” achievement.
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➠ October 6, 2008
➠ January 27, 2008
Michel Gondry’s next film involved Jack Black and Mos Def recreating movies amateurishly. Here, Michel Gondry recreates that film’s trailer amateurishly. Genius!
➠ October 15, 2007
groovymother.com response times
Looks like switching to a hosted server is already paying off -- Response times for groovymother.com are halved on the new host.
➠ October 12, 2007
If you can read this…
…then my DNS-fu has worked, and you’re now hitting groovymother.com on its new server, a virtual Linux box running via Xen, hosted by VPSLink.com
For the last 6 years, all my sites have been hosted from my home, at the mercy of my (usually exceptionally-reliable) Speakeasy DSL connection. However, when the whims of BitTorrent take me, it can cause slowdowns, and virtual-server technology now means I can get root on a hosted server for less than the price of a cup of gin a day, so I’m putting my trust in a hosting company’s arms, and seeing how it works out.
(After signing up with VPSLink, I received a recommendation for Slicehost who offer similarly-priced services, so it’s good to know that switching shouldn’t be a problem if VPSLink turns out to suck balls for some reason)
➠ April 24, 2007
Commentary
Since 99% of what I write here is now in the category of “links” rather than posts, and at the prodding of Mike, I’ve added the ability to comment on links on the site.
Turned out to be about 2 new lines of code and minor templatery tweaks (Thank you Django!)
Go crazy, gang. Feedback-me-do!
➠ April 19, 2007
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.
➠ January 22, 2007
My Name is Earl shouts-out to TWoP, including having their characters post to the TWoP forums. “No, I don’t think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I’m sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me.”
➠ November 26, 2004
Quite far, it would appear.
This is all Matt's fault.
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