Let’s Talk Backups and Data Preservation

I’ve produced a lot of data over the years. Some of this data is super crazy important (we’ve been working on Aztez for over 5 years now–the project must absolutely be immune to data failure). I’ve refined and clarified my thinking on handling data over the last few years, so I thought I’d do a brain […]

Moving From Dedicated Hosting to $5/Month VPSes

I recently moved 25 projects from one dedicated server to 8 different VPS instances on DigitalOcean. Here is what I learned! History For the last 8 years, I hosted all of my personal and professional web projects on a single, dedicated server. Dedicated hardware has a lot of benefits, especially ample, fixed resources and total […]

IGS 2013 Soapbox Talk

Here’s an article version of my Independent Games Summit 2013 soapbox talk. I added the IGF stats pretty last minute, and I definitely felt like I rushed through the first part of my talk to cram everything in. The prompt I give to the speakers for this session is “what are you thinking about?”. This […]

Building a Hackintosh

For the past 4 years, I’ve been using a Mac Pro as my primary desktop. It’s been a fantastic machine: Ultra stable, fast, and reasonably expandable. It’s getting old, though. The whole Mac Pro line is getting old; Apple’s last update was almost 500 days ago (as of this writing, check the MacRumors Buying Guide […]