uggedal

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   by uggedal 17y ago

   First of all I don't think this will become a Pingdom clone/killer. Ease of use, simple, and unobtrusive are values that I will continue to value when deciding on where to take the project. If I do decide to take money for premium features
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   Yep, email address is a unique key, so you can sign up from the home page with the same email address. As you've probably seen the link from the settings page actually takes you to the home page (with your email address as a query parameter
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   Sounds like a premium feature to me ;-)
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   The contains/doesn't contain feature was inspired by all the badly implemented sites I've seen which does not care to return proper HTTP status codes. I actually meant to implement regex matching as well, but sadly such a feature would be h
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   I've been thinking of implementing webhooks as an additional form of notification, but not as a a presence mechanism. I like the idea, but given the simple nature of the service I'd have to give it some thought before implementing something
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   I'll give the "last checked" idea some thought. I'd need to store some additional data as I'm currently storing only abnormal behavior. Regarding the weekly/monthly update: this is something I'm averse to. Other services do this and it kind
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   Implemented both. Appreciate the suggestions. Gotta love one command deployment with fabric;-)
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   I close the socket of the connection after 5 seconds. That should identify problems with slow responses. In the notifications that are sent I differentiate between responses that are not 200 OK or matches your criteria, problems with gettin
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   by uggedal 17y ago

   That could be a possible feature for paying customers. I'm not shelling out lots of money for a good international SMS broker before I know that it can break even. For now you can use your mobile provider's Email-to-SMS gateway (if such are
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Actually, as of now the site itself (HTTP) is not redundant. It could be by using DNS for failover to a slave host or some kind of heartbeat setup. The data is replicated, so the problem is just sending you to the right host when you type i
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I just pushed a change which ups the limit to 10 monitorings per email address. I'm a bit hesitant to having no limit at all due to the ease of abuse. After all, I do have to pay for the BW out of my own pocket.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    On gmail you can also use a plus sign after your username: yourname+spamsignup1@gmail.com
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Good idea. I'll be sure to change the wording to something a bit more fitting for the purpose of the settings page.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    If you register a site you'll get an email with a link to a settings page which lists all your subscriptions and offer one-click unsubscribe. For now I only allow one site per email though. The plan is to offer several sites per email and l
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    I agree that it's not optimal to cover the logo. The problem with moving the error messages to the left would be the increased total horizontal with of the page. I don't think I'd go wider than 1024px as I'm mainly using a low resolution ne
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    I created this service mainly as an exercise to help me learn more about distributed applications. Behind the simple interface sits a multi-node setup with multi-master replicated Tokyo Tyrant instances for persistence. I'd appreciate any s
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    Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring(wasitup.com)

    46 points by uggedal 17y ago|71 comments
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    Jakob Nielsen on Streams, Walls, and Feeds(useit.com)

    4 points by uggedal 17y ago|0 comments
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Peter Seibel ask this question in all his interviews in Coders at Work: http://www.codersatwork.com It seemed like most were concurrency related.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    I think Clojure will be my next major language. Been going back and forth between Haskell, Erlang, and Clojure. (Never liked Scala, lacks focus.)
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Amen. Especially 3D pie charts.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    "Web 2.0" was coined when it was given as a name to a conference.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    It was coined by a dude trying to sell more conference tickets.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Tokyo Cabinet and Tyrant have B-tree support.
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Use the source Luke: http://code.reddit.com/
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    My most useful zsh functions: # a visual recursive list of all files and directories function tree() { find . | sed -e 's/[^\/]*\//|--/g' -e 's/-- |/ |/g' | $PAGER } # recursive text search (ack is also nifty) function
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Map <up> and <down> to do the same in .zsh: # search history on <up> key instead of paging previous commands: bindkey "\e[A" history-search-backward bindkey "\e[B" history-search-forward
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Norwegian
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    Reminds me of _why's Hoodwink.d
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    by uggedal 17y ago

    What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?