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I was asked about getting some "monitoring" going the other day, and decided to ask someone with expertise. I told Wei that we had just had an issue with our logs filling up the /var/ partition, and wanted to make sure it didn't happen in the future. His answer was pretty enlightening; he said: "Don't do that. Fix the problem."

My aunt Gloria passed away this past Saturday from pancreatic cancer. Her long battle lasted four times the median survival rate, and took her into her octogenarian years.

Totto Ramen. It's finally here.

After some false starts, I've finally got a new design to a point where I think it's probably fit for the public. I've been very, very busy on a bunch of projects recently, but have a few technical blog posts and a python library release hopefully coming up soon.

Upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 did not go quite as planned tonight; software all downloaded, installed, and checked out, and when it came time to reboot, the rebooting failed.

I've tried writing this 5 different times and each time I've gotten caught up in the Unix philosophy, command line interfaces, Janis Joplin, and linguistics. Clearly, I should have let this one sit.

About a week ago, I released Johnny-Cache v0.2, which includes a few important bugfixes over 0.1 and adds a blacklist option called MAN_IN_BLACKLIST, which is a tuple of table names that you don't want Johnny to touch. Note that any query that references that table will also not be touched, so don't use it on tables that you might want to join against.

Spent a little time with "Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets" tonight (sass). I wrote up a preliminary new design for this blog, and used all of the features in the sass tutorial. My impressions as I went through this process:

I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of interest in johnny-cache since Jeremy and I released it this past weekend. A lot of the comments revealed that perhaps the documentation is missing an important discussion on the repercussions of using Johnny. They are also pretty positive about the name :)

I've been waiting a long time to write about this. Johnny Cache is now released upon the world. It's a drop-in caching library/framework for Django that will cache all of your querysets forever in a consistent and safe manner. You can install it via pip install johnny-cache.