13 4 / 2012
Engineering at Kiip: A Year with MongoDB
This week marks the one year anniversary of Kiip running MongoDB in production. As of this week, we’ve also moved over 95% of our data off of MongoDB onto systems such as Riak and PostgreSQL, depending which solution made sense for the way we use our data. This post highlights our experience with…
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18 3 / 2012
I spent today mostly stag.
I went to Jessica’s for brunch, and hung out with a bunch of people from Code for America. I was a bit of a wallflower, but did some pan cleaning, ate some awesome food and chatted briefly with Jessica about how awesome Portland is.
I went walking and then took a train down to Fisherman’s Wharf.
There was an adorable kid on the train, shouting and laughing and then smoothing down my dress telling me that I was a mannequin. His dad was embarrassed and told him to apologize, but I wasn’t offended. The kid and I started talking and he told me his name was buzz lightyear, and I asked if he could fly. He could. And then he started chewing on his jacket and making high pitched noises, until I pointed out there was a giant boat, with boats inside it. and WTF is up with boats in boats? Then I said goodbye!
I walked around a bit, but was freeeeezing cold, so I went into the aquarium and looked for giant octopuses. I found two of them, but really couldn’t get a great look at either. The white/translucent one was wedged in some rocks, and you could see a tentacle or two and an eye. The other darker one was behind the rocks, and you could barely see it’s outline behind a curve, before the angle of the glass made things too distorted to really see.
And there were jellyfish.
I went shopping for a while, and made a pretty girl in line laugh when I said I was planning to elbow her out of the way.
Now back, a little tired. Looking forward to getting back to the cats, and Portland.
17 3 / 2012
Enjoyment, appreciation, love
I had the best talk with a friend of a friend who challenged my assumptions about electronic music, by pointing out the performance aspect was probably the least important and least enjoyable thing. And i have been reading a process improvement book that is blowing my mind. Quality research is my favorite fucking thing ever! I can’t believe i hadn’t figured this out until now! What I am liking about the book is its “maybe you are just not mature enough” or “ready now” or “need to focus on other things” approach. No blame, and a lot of business sympathy/empathy for the real shit stopping people from figuring out improvement. The tool we are building is essentially a luxury. Its the kind of thing that if in place could save an established business during hard times, but if they are trying to change the culture of a place, its a real barrier. And not something just one person can change in isolation.
12 3 / 2012
This week, The Oregonian will not be running a series of Doonesbury strips about the national political controversy over abortion and ultrasounds. I made this flowchart for the editors, I hope they find it useful.
(Source: sexfromscratch)
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07 3 / 2012
Insecurity
Yesterday is the day where I realized how concerned I am about failing. I mean, I am terrified I am going to fail.
I wrote an email and sent it out to a list, and I got four unsubscribes. FOUR. PEOPLE.
I mean, it’s not the end of the world, right? Right?
But it kind of feels like it.
So I turned off the alarm for new mail, and I walked outside.
05 3 / 2012
Waking up and not running.
The weather is terrible. I’m going to just love myself anyway and take it easy today. I managed to get up early, make a vac pot of coffee and figure out some stupid django site errors all on my own.
Brunch is my favorite meal. Going to do it again next weekend.
Still have lots of soup from making cauliflower soup. Lunch, yum.
