Category: Blog
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Startup 4: CronPUT
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is product number three: CronPUT! CronPUT is a fairly self-explanatory name. Users log in with Google to sign up for an account and enter a list of webhook URLs, specifying an interval for each. At the specified time, a PUT request is…
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Startup 3: Draupnr
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is product number three: Draupnr! Serving a folder full of html files will always be orders of magnitude faster than any dynamic, scripted site. It also requires orders of magnitude less in resources and thereby cost. Also, this paradigm allows better…
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How To Migrate Production MySQL Database Servers
Migrating database servers in production, whether they are large or small, is a surprisingly simple process but a delicate one. There are fewer methods available as the size goes up. This is something I have been asked about by several colleagues so I decided to document my processes and best practices. The File Method (BEST) This…
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Startup 2: RSI Alert
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is product number two: RSIAlert.com! What Inspired This Project? I follow a few dozen stocks and do some day trading in my spare time. Working on a previous project Securities.Science, I did some research into strategies using RSI to decide when to buy…
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Setting Up PHP Apache2 MySQL MSSQL Server on Azure
First, update the packages; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Set up initial applications; sudo apt-get -y install unzip fail2ban apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-curl php-pear php5-mysql php5-mcrypt screenfetch htop nload curl git ntp freetds-common freetds-bin unixodbc php5-sybase && sudo php5enmod mcrypt && sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart && sudo mysql_secure_installation Set Up SMTP…
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Goals: Time for a Change
I Haven’t Been Able To Write It has been almost two months since my last goal update. My life has been very tumultuous as I have struggled with an awkward transition. I spent the last few years working on a domain-expertise partnership in order to facilitate the development of my long-term project, which we will…
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❤️[Podcast] Tim Ferriss Interviews Esther Perel on Maintaining Desire and Rethinking Infidelity
Tim Ferriss is in Kevin Rose’s words, “very private,” despite his very public personality and lifestyle business. We, the audience, see a very detailed and in-depth view of some parts of his life, but with things like love and relationships, he is more reserved. I have often felt curious about that side of him, and…
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Startup 1: Securities Science
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is number one: Securities.Science! What Inspired This Project? My first startup in the series is Securities.Science. It lets users run queries against historic stock trading data in order to test theories and strategies. All data is public and everyone can see…
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Essay: Populism
CJ Trowbridge Carrigan 2017-05-08 English 1A Tue/Thu What do Donald Trump, Theresa May, Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and Adolph Hitler all have in common? There are lots of easy answers, but a harder one might explain the easy ones and more; populism. What is populism and what causes it? According to The Economist,…
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💩 Chris Guillebeau – The $100 Startup
This book is a great primer on bootstrapping what it calls a “micro-business,” or a one-person business. There are lots of great tips about how to build the first relationships and focus on creating value for your product or service. There is also some focus on how to identify the business that will fit well with your…