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I woke up to discover that I’d unintentionally sent Direct Messages to all of the followers on my personal Twitter account.

Specifically, I wanted to tack some Twitter search features onto it, and I was very impressed with how this library has been built.

Ruby provides some nice features for when you’re building hand-rolled health checking tools. And there are some sshd tricks to be played, too.

I really don’t feel like setting up a full-fledged MTA to just do basic forwarding. Perhaps this is a job for an SMTP relay.

nginx has been pleasantly stable – the only time it has gone down is when I misconfigured it into infinte HTTP 302 redirects, and even then it took several hours of user activity to knock it over.

I spent three weeks (please don’t laugh) worth of my daily commute writing assertions for the core language, the standard packages, plus ActiveRecord and other common gems.

Because Tomcat keeps dying after about 36 hours. So, I’m gonna enable debugging and JMX remoting so that I can put JConsole to work.

Because the logs don’t clean themselves up. So of course I went looking for cron, and in the process, an OS X lesson was learned.

I was sitting at Cafe International and setting up RadRails when the HD on my two-week-old MacBook Pro 2008 went into beachball-of-death mode.