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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA/SRE in Silicon Valley. I've been engineering for over 20 years for companies like eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.
I use TuCows/Hover for registering domain names.
I am available for MySQL/Postgres DBA/SRE/Security work in Silicon Valley or remote. Click here to contact me.
I am a MariaDB/MySQL code contributor and Perl CPAN author. Check out my github. My most recent project is cassandra-top.
In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life. Upcoming Events 2020
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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Tonga Fiber Cut 2019
Imagine your whole country’s Internet going dark. Kudos to the private ISP owners in Tonga who financed and organized a solution while the fiber is repaired. Bali is another island in a similar situation, at 100% electrical and Internet capacity … Continue reading
The Awesome Airplanes of Burt Rutan
Great photo collection of Burt Rutan-designed planes by Flying Magazine. He favored composites since he could mfg. prototypes almost 10x faster than metal or wood. Northrop Grumman bought his company, Scaled Composites. This is his Firebird H03 Observation plane. Rutan … Continue reading
KiCad, Electronics and EDA DFM Links
Thanks to funding and project management by CERN, KiCad is the most advanced free EDA tool now. CERN has funded differential traces, and dragging. Free tools will likely never catch up to commercial tools for parts libraries and integration with … Continue reading
Manila 2019Q1 Mobile Commerce
This is an annual update of my Manila mobile commerce report. Use the search widget for previous editions. Rockwell/Powerplant Mall as seen from the newish City Garden Hotel Makati 32nd storey pooldeck. iPhone 8+, hand-held. Chinese payment methods available in … Continue reading