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colbyaley | 3 years ago | on: How to monitor cloud dependencies so you don’t have to check status pages

Been using Metrist for a few months now. So nice to get status updates delivered straight to Slack as opposed to trusting vendor status pages and eventually having to just defer to Twitter.

colbyaley | 7 years ago | on: An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s

The change in color likely has to do with the lighting. When it's removed from the wall you can see the square of light placed on the frame. https://youtu.be/5-RFj1Slcws?t=22

colbyaley | 7 years ago | on: Boosted Boards founders launch heavy-duty scooter renter Skip

This post on Bird's unit economics is pretty good. https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/how-to-understand-the-fina...

colbyaley | 9 years ago | on: Go Patterns: A curated collection of idiomatic design patterns

Got excited, went to try and click on them, but most of them 404. A for effort?

colbyaley | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)

Reflect | Senior Software Engineers | Portland, OR | ONSITE

We’re looking to add experienced software engineers to our team to help build, scale, and manage our hosted and on-prem platforms. Engineers in these roles will help define much of the technical direction of Reflect. You’ll get to work with everyone on our small team and wear lots of different hats, both technical and non-technical. Reflect is considered infrastructure by our customers so service availability is extremely important to our business. We all practice DevOps and we deploy our stack amongst many different cloud providers. We’re golang on the backend and ES6/React on the front end with some services and tools written in Ruby. Reflect is the API for data visualization, solving the data visualization problem for developers the way Twilio solves communication, Stripe solves payments, and Sendgrid solves email: by making it a service. With Reflect, developers can add data visualization to their web and mobile applications in minutes. email me: [email protected] or checkout our postings at http://bit.ly/1VwMy4z

colbyaley | 9 years ago | on: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

Thanks!

Great question! We're different than other tools because we're an ingredient component that developers add to their applications and services (Tableau + others are standalone tools).

We're working with larger companies, like Simply Measured, who are using Reflect to power their customer-facing products.

Most companies (large or small) don't have the core competency for data visualization in-house -- Reflect helps fill that gap.

colbyaley | 9 years ago | on: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

Thanks for your support!

colbyaley | 9 years ago | on: LGTM is a simple pull request approval system for GitHub

It's been used at companies I've worked at (not Google).

I had a coworker who didn't know what it meant, and somehow assumed it was "Let's Get That Money". So now I think of that every time :)

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

This is a really great point. I think it would have been useful to point out that we're currently going through an accelerator (Techstars), so all this data is somewhat atypical. Additionally, I wouldn't say we're "hyper focused" on these metrics. Rather, it's something I check periodically in order to help think about shaping my habits. Does that make sense?

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

I've been a paid user for quite a while and really enjoying Gyroscope! Would love to get coffee and chat dataviz sometime.

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

this looks awesome!

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

hey, not sure why you're getting downvoted. valid points, I appreciate you pointing it out. we definitely should look into this.

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

The metric is pulled from RescueTime. It's the percentage of time spent on applications that are classified as "Productive".

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

You must be an accredited investor to invest on angel.co. see: https://angel.co/help/general-solicitation/accredited

colbyaley | 10 years ago | on: Things men have actually said to me at tech events

Why is this getting downvoted by mods?

colbyaley | 12 years ago | on: My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS

I suggest the OP check out Cloudability[1], which provides realtime cost management for AWS and other cloud providers. We help over 10,000 customers make sure this doesn't happen to them. (disclosure: I work there)

[1]: https://cloudability.com/

colbyaley | 12 years ago | on: PiCloud has joined Dropbox

I recommend checking out CPUSage. They offer a very similar service that's language agnostic. They're pretty early on AFAIK, so they still have a few kinks to work out, but i've found it to be pretty solid.

colbyaley | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: IP Lookup

Is this on Github?

colbyaley | 12 years ago | on: Kudos

Like button? Thanks to Facebook, 'like' usually means 'share' now days. You don't always want to share things, or at least I don't.

colbyaley | 12 years ago | on: I know none of my passwords

I have appended the post to include the fact that I have a copy of my password physically printed and hidden in a secure location.

As for mobile, I have not tried the workflow on iOS but I hear you can use the USB camera connection kit to connect your Yubikey.