As part of maintaining Fetch I have to install the php imap extension quite a bit. Although this is pretty trivial on most variants of linux it’s kind of a pain for OSX- you have to find a few dependancies, compile the imap c library from source, create the extension against your currently installed version of…
Planning to Go Down, HTTP Edition
Whether it’s from a planned upgrade or a blown RAID, your site is going to go down eventually. This was brought to light for a lot of people by a recent outage on Hacker News- an outage that was made worse by HN responding with 200 Status Codes. During the subsequent discussion I posted a…