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There are several options but Puma seems to be the most popular at the moment. A derivative of Unicorn named Pitchfork is also in the works from Shopify - https://github.com/Shopif…

Megadosing B6 can lead to B6 toxicity/syndrome as a result of its longer half life and ability to accumulate in the system. Between multivitamins, energy drinks, preworkouts and fo…

I've been using Sidekiq for years, rock solid and no complaints. However, this recent addition to the space seems to be gaining traction and appears to have an excellent feature se…

Back around 2000, I was writing software patches for a large telecom company. These patches had to be applied to live, inservice telephone switches and equipment that were powering…

I discovered PostgreSQL in a similar happenstance sort of way - working at a large telecom directly out of college in the late 90s, tasked with setting up a MySQL backed webapp to …

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology for HDDs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T .

Don't forget that he was also quite a wordsmith (NSFW) - http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0050.txt

We're currently using Crystal 0.25.1 with the Kemal web framework to provide an online paycheck calculator for US based employees (it's basically a demo/tool for our SaaS based acc…

We use FreeBSD in production (SaaS accounting/payroll app) as a load balancing proxy/web server (Nginx) and outgoing mail server (OpenSMTPD) because it's a stable, proven OS with s…

For me, also a VIM kind of guy, Atom lets me use VIM movement keys in the file/project pane which grants me total mouse freedom. Another Atom bonus is that file additions, deletion…

I use Linux and a window manager with 10 virtual desktops/workspaces, keyboard shortcuts let me instantly jump to or scroll through them. That said, I've never understood the need …

Our rails app generates dozens of accounting related reports on the fly in HTML and we use Flying Saucer to generate a PDF version - https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsa…

Can you provide any more details on your stack and what you're seeing that blows away alternatives? I'm running a staging version of our Rails 3.8 app with MRI 2.1 and Puma in clus…

I like to test drive new fonts whenever they pop up, but I always come back to Ubuntu Mono! For anyone wanting to see/try it - http://font.ubuntu.com/

Many people use something like denyhosts or fail2ban to help with brute force attacks. PF has built-in support for building rules with options which will throw potential attackers …

Same here. Ironically, a new travel planning site announcement just popped up on HN today in case you missed it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572902 CEO touts it as "Worl…

royce, if you're ever interested in connecting your data to an online accounting app for nonprofits (with integrated fundraising CRM and payroll), I'd be happy to chat!

One of the issues I ran into when looking to migrate a multi-tenant Rails app to Torquebox was lack of schema support (eg. schema_search_path). I was able to workaround those issue…