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- We’re pulling the plug on Newshutch
- Downtime
- Ruby on Rails Meetup at Microsoft in downtown L.A.
- Announcements
- Venture Capital
- User Revolt!
- Our friend’s book
- Belated StartupSchool report
- Palo Alto
- Registerfly hell
- DNS issues
- Migration Complete
- Scheduled Downtime
- Dead hard drives and downtime
- MacBookPro protection on the cheap
Wednesday October 31st, 2007
We’re pulling the plug on Newshutch
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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Sorry we’ve been so quiet lately. We didn’t know when we be able to diagnose let alone fix things, and then, when we started thinking about shutting down, we wanted to be sure before we said anything.
We lost the hunger
The main problem we’ve been facing is that none of us were passionate about Newshutch anymore. [...]
Sunday September 30th, 2007
Downtime
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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We had more downtime than expected yesterday and today as we moved to a new host. But we’re up now. We’ll post more about the move to Joyent after a few days of experience with it.
Monday June 18th, 2007
Ruby on Rails Meetup at Microsoft in downtown L.A.
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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Here are Micah (left) and Doug at the front desk of the belly of the beast. It was a treat to eat pizza on Bill Gates’ dime.
The event was 45 minutes of socializing, an hour of 4 presentations, then 45 minutes of socializing and shop talk.
Ron Evans talked about MERB, a way of speeding up [...]
Tuesday June 5th, 2007
Announcements
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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I’m happy to announce that our friend Micah is now a member of the Newshutch team. Some other things are in the works, but the main thing is that you can expect the pace of Newshutch development to pick up. Stay tuned for updates.
If you want to meet Doug, Micah, and me in person, we’ll [...]
Thursday May 31st, 2007
Venture Capital
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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A venture capital firm called today. It turns out that we’re not quite hot enough for VC investment yet.
VC: “So we typically invest in companies with at least $500,000 in quarterly revenues…”
Me: “HA!”
Though I won’t be buying a Porche and an eight ball tonight, the call was productive. The partner I talked to was friendly [...]
Monday May 7th, 2007
User Revolt!
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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9 out of 10 doctors agree, the Newshutch ad placement sucks.
Clearly the main problem is that it takes up a lot of real estate that can’t be reclaimed by scrolling. After using Newshutch today I started to feel the same pain as everyone else. Your eyes scan the bottom of what you’re scrolling, but [...]
Wednesday April 18th, 2007
Our friend’s book
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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Annie Choi, long time friend of Doug and Nathan, has written a hilarious memoir about growing up Korean in the San Fernando Valley. Annie and I grew up several blocks apart and now she’s a published author living in New York.
She’s got some readings coming up in Los Angeles (I’ll be at this one so [...]
Saturday April 7th, 2007
Belated StartupSchool report
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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Two weeks ago Micah and I went to Palo Alto for StartupSchool (Flickr photos). I’ll spare you a detailed recap of the event since you can get links to notes, transcripts, and audio at the StartupSchool Wiki, but here are some personal observations:
Mitch Kapor is the world’s coolest and perhaps most virtuous tech entrepreneur. He [...]
Saturday March 24th, 2007
Palo Alto
From Newshutch Blog, 1 year ago,
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I’m in Palo Alto with Micah for Startupschool this weekend. If you are in Startupschool or Palo Alto I’d love to meet a Newshutch user in person, so say hi or send me an email.
There are lots of developer gatherings this weekend. I’m really looking forward to meetings other tech heads. Being in the [...]
Wednesday January 10th, 2007
Registerfly hell
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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The warning:
I’m writing this post to warn everyone about the horrible experience I had with the domain name registrar Registerfly. If you have any domain names registered with them, stop reading this blog and transfer to a reputable registrar right now.
Top reasons Registerfly sucks:
Nonexistent and/or incompetent support
Unreliable DNS and MX administration
UNBEARABLY bad administrative interface (slow, [...]
Sunday January 7th, 2007
DNS issues
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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We’ve been having some trouble with our DNS provider this weekend. We’ll let you know when it’s resolved.
Sunday December 17th, 2006
Migration Complete
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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We should be back up. It may take a while for DNS to propagate, so until then we’re redirecting from our old host to the ip address of our new host.
Friday December 15th, 2006
Scheduled Downtime
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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Tomorrow, December 16th, we will be down while migrating to a new host. Hopefully you will be outside getting fresh air instead of checking news feeds
We’ll be back up ASAP.
Sunday November 19th, 2006
Dead hard drives and downtime
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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Sorry for the downtime today, the hard drive in our web server died. That server always was flaky, it would totally lock up every 2-3 weeks and require a hard reboot. An iffy hard drive could have been the reason for that flakiness, but it’s hard to say when you don’t physically have the machine [...]
Sunday November 12th, 2006
MacBookPro protection on the cheap
From Newshutch Blog, over 2 years ago,
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I wanted a sleeve for my new 15″ MacBookPro . Incase makes good neoprene sleeves, but I didn’t want to spend $30. Sam’s guide to making your own laptop sleeve out of corduroy looked promising, but I don’t have a sewing machine.
The super budget solution was to tap into that other Force that binds the [...]