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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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- AWS Summit Online May 13, 2020
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- Jenkins/Cloudbees, Sept. 21-24, 2020, TBA, Vegas
- PagerDuty Summit, Sept. 21-23, 2020, SF
- postgresopen.org (TBD)
- API World 2020, Oct. 27–29, 2020, San Jose Convention Center
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Category Archives: Retro
Kinko’s Campbell as a Third Place
Kinko’s Campbell used to be 24 hours around 2004, and as the only place open, had a vibrant late-nite community of regulars. Later the hours were reduced by the regional manager, and then Fedex bought the chain. On most nites, … Continue reading
PSA: Acer Aspire D150 Netbook Still a Viable Notebook
While my Macbook Pro was getting the battery replaced recently, I used my Acer Aspire One D150 netbook daily. The Acer Aspire is an Intel N270 Atom-based 800×600 notebook running Windows XP, so I wasn’t expecting much overall, but it … Continue reading
Thomas Inch Dumbbell Links
Thomas Inch was a strongman/circus performer in the early 1900’s. He is best remembered for creating a series of dumbbells with almost 2.5″ thick handles, the largest weighing 172 pounds (the “Inch”.) He would demonstrate an Inch lift, then offer … Continue reading
Bash Shellshock Fix for Old Macs
This chap has a shellshock fix for older Macs, including PPC and pre-Mountain Lion. I tested it on a Macbook Pro (Intel) with Leopard 10.5.8 and it works fine. It is also an easy way to fix failed bash update … Continue reading