3 by 5

This tumblog is a place for the 3x5 cards that I find in my pockets, little networks of ideas in 4 or five pages.

I hope you will endure the pocket-smudged and bus-jostled script and critique the ideas presented, helping them to grow and change.
Ask me anything

recognizing photo ops

riding past Colonel Sumners park this morning, i passed a crow in anguish on the sidewalk
it was trying to reach a donut inside a disposable lunch box
it was so frustrated.
i meant to snap a picture but i was moving too fast and missed the op.

Mozilla Persona

Nov 2012 Riak Group Notes

MySQL

  • Rails, etc

PostGreSQL

Mongo

  • no schema nice?
  • somewhat expressive queries
  • sharding can lead to heavy, light nodes?

Cassandra

  • lots of layers
  • not a “dynamo database”
  • -

Riak

  • i am the query analyzer

    to_i vs riak search (indexing) scalable vs high cardinality terms

can’t update instead, record “i wanted to make this change”

Beware of the clouds

cloud providers: went with profit bricks

riak not cpu bound, but with highly-concurrent clients, it’s useful to have lots of cpus general lesson: look for latency wins all over the place

http://riakon.com/ “redis to go”

yokozuna

Amanda Palmer studio sessions at Secret Society on OPB Music 

Great energy on the first track

drawnblog:

More from illustrator Jason Levesque, as he shares a time lapse colouring of one of his pieces in Photoshop. Here’s the finished version below: 

robots! dubstep! delightful.

pigfarts-pigfarts:


THEY WERE FIGHTING AND WERE ALL LIKE ARRRR IMMA GET YOU BITCH BUT THEN, WHAT, WHY IS THE FLOOR SO SPRINGY. BETTER TEST IT OUT.

pigfarts-pigfarts:

THEY WERE FIGHTING AND WERE ALL LIKE ARRRR IMMA GET YOU BITCH BUT THEN, WHAT, WHY IS THE FLOOR SO SPRINGY. BETTER TEST IT OUT.

(Source: 4gifs)

megsfireball:

goobererer:

omeganhipster:

angrynerdyblogger:

knifegoesin-gutscomeout:

Welp, I’m not going sleep again tonight.

IT’S BACK

Oh god not again

It’s actually really cool tho

what the actual fuck is that

(Source: tacocat-gifs)

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Alessandro Bosetti – Zwölfzungen (Sedimental) Laida and Mikel looking for rhymes. (Basque)

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