Recently, I’ve really gotten into tmux for managing all my terminal sessions/windows. Not so much for the panes, but more for keeping a highly contextual environment per project or task. As the number of sessions grew, they became difficult to tell apart. For a few days now, I’ve had the idea of hashing the name of the session into a unique color, so that every session had its own status-bg color.

Most modern web stacks allow the “filtering” of requests via stackable/composable middleware, allowing you to cleanly separate cross-cutting concerns from your web application. This weekend I needed to hook into go’s http.FileServer and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do.

This week, @bradfitz (of memcached fame) released groupcache at OSCON 2013. I’m already a big fan of memcached and camlistore, so I couldn’t wait to download it and kick the tires.

Recently, I invested some time into automating some of the work that goes into a Finatra release.

After months of work Finatra 1.0.0 is finally available! Finatra is a scala web framework inspired by Sinatra built on top of Finagle.

Finally got tired of copy pasting other projects and gutting them to make new ones, so I created base, a shell command that creates new scala projects.

A few months ago, I gave a presentation on how Posterous uses Riak for it’s post cache; At #ricon2012 I ended up retelling this story to numerous people, so I thought I’d post the slides and video here.

UPDATE: this is now available as a sub command, here: kiev

Cooked this up last night when I needed a simple key/value store for use in a shell script:

I’ve been fascinated by the concepts in finagle for some time, but being a scala noob, I never knew how to bootstrap a finagle project. Turns out twitter has a gem, scala-bootstrapper, that generates a simple thirft based key/value store for you. There’s even atutorial on how to extend the example project into a distributed search service. This is a guide on setting it all up locally, it assumes you have Git, Homebrew, and OS X.