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I got a new job, I'm with the same girl, and I almost died
https://penguinsinabox.com/2014/01/28/new-happenings.html
Penguins in a Box. I got a new job, I'm with the same girl, and I almost died. It’s been in the back of my mind for quite some time now to get back on here the start writing some more. Sadly, I typically psych myself out instead and end up with nothing. Luckily, I guess you can call it luck, I’ve had quite a tumultuous past six months. Back in October of 2013, I joined Hortonworks. Looking back, it still feels surreal, dreamlike even. Since graduating from RPI. Up the road to the hospital I went. Aft...
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Indirect Verification
https://penguinsinabox.com/2013/04/15/indirect-verification.html
Penguins in a Box. Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years. Another day, another blog post linked by HackerNews. There are lots of interesting points raised that I think hold a lot of merit. Some, that I’ve trying to better myself about recently which is why this one hit home. When you push something to the limit all these technologies fail in their own special way. Architecture is doing the right thing when growth can be handled by adding more of the same stuff.
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Up and Running
https://penguinsinabox.com/projects/2011/03/09/up-and-running.html
Penguins in a Box. So, I FINALLY have something that resembles a working website. After moving my server from an old/crappy machine to a linode768 (shameless plug: if you are interested in getting a Linode. Of your own, please use my referral code. I decided I needed to do something more creative/fun/exciting than the Drupal instance I had running before. I decided to write my own mini-blog in Django. Posted: 09 Mar 2011. Tweets by @josh elser.
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SpamMap
https://penguinsinabox.com/projects/2011/09/03/Spammap.html
Penguins in a Box. The solution I have is to use Fail2ban. Which monitors the system log for failed SSH attempts and will automatically lock out these IP addresses (using iptables) for a configurable amount of time. After a host gets locked out, I get an email letting me know the IP and the result of a WHOIS lookup. So, I have all these fun IP addresses and registered addresses of "people" I don't like. So what did I do? I counted them all up, and threw their information on a map that I can look at!
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Ideas
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Penguins in a Box. Read as: things I want to use, build, integrate, create, etc. I'm bad at remembering things. I tend to come across blog posts, Github projects, presentations and the like which makes me think "damn, that'd be cool to play around with! Distributed Computing - Hadoop and Accumulo focused. Quantcast File System (QFS). A Hadoop-compatible file system written in C , touted at being more performant than HDFS. Install it locally, see how it performs/works. Github. Barebones QEMU Linux install.
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If Only I Knew This Shit In College
https://penguinsinabox.com/2013/03/29/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-college.html
Penguins in a Box. If Only I Knew This Shit In College. Tends to be a bit of a time-waster for me these days, but, every now and again, I come across something that’s a real gem. This time it happened to be a presentation from Zach Holman. If I only knew this shit in college. I won’t summarize it so as to not bias your opinion and take-away from the source. But, wow. I don’t think I’ve read something that has hit so close to home in a while. Posted: 29 Mar 2013. Tweets by @josh elser.
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About me
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Penguins in a Box. I'm Josh Elser, and I'm a software developer with experience in Java, C/C , Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP, and Perl. I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2010, receiving my B.S in Computer Science. With minors in Information Technology. While there, I worked for the Computer Science laboratory staff, participated in the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software. As a developer and mentor, was a member of the Rensselaer Union. In my free time, I enjoy writing software ...
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New Platform
https://penguinsinabox.com/projects/2013/02/09/new-platform.html
Penguins in a Box. Goodbye Django, Hello Jekyll. A little backstory, I first made this little site when I migrated off old physical hardware I had (at my parent’s house I believe it was? And instead bought a Linode. At the time, I had done more in Python than Ruby and was tired of PHP, so I figured I’d use Django to just roll my own little site. Partially from an engineering/learning standpoint, and the rest coming from a I don’t to deal with Wordpress’ issues standpoint. Posted: 09 Feb 2013.
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Penguins in a Box
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Penguins in a Box. Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years. Another day, another blog post linked by HackerNews. There are lots of interesting points raised that I think hold a lot of merit. Some, that I’ve trying to better myself about recently which is why this one hit home. When you push something to the limit all these technologies fail in their own special way. Architecture is doing the right thing when growth can be handled by adding more of the same stuff.
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