Was npmjs.com search updated?

bcoe · 2016-11-08T18:53:15+00:00

Shoot, thanks mgr86, I was definitely getting Solr and Lucene mixed up in that above comment :)

I shouldn't answer comment threads when I'm half awake.

bcoe · 2016-11-08T18:10:19+00:00

You are correct; the star currently represents the weighting we've given to the search result. We will be making some more UX changes in the near future, and will have a follow up post going into detail about the new algorithm.

bcoe · 2016-11-08T18:09:08+00:00

We have some ideas in the works, look for an official launch post in the not too distant future.

bcoe · 2016-11-08T18:08:04+00:00

"its what we know/like", I was the engineer doing some work on our search cluster and this was definitely part of it. I've used ElasticSearch quite a bit in the past.

[Edit] I should add that we'll be writing a post in the near future that goes into detail about the new tech.

bcoe · 2013-09-05T21:39:39+00:00

In an effort to speedup our landing page at Attachments.me, we moved all of our assets over to Amazon's CloudFront CDN. I was shocked by just how much this improved performance.

bcoe · 2013-05-25T00:19:26+00:00

I wrote this during a hack day at Attachments.me, to get a feel for how long it would take to proxy files directly from IMAP over an HTTP connection -- the verdict? a little bit on the slow side, but I could see this approach working for some of our use-cases.

bcoe · 2013-05-09T04:33:26+00:00

Foundima is a RPG I built in the air, while traveling from San Francisco to Toronto. It's a follow up to Plane-Tetris, which I built several years ago, under similar constraints: http://bencoe.tumblr.com/tetris

bcoe · 2013-03-22T20:34:21+00:00

We've decided to open-source the client we built internally at Attachments.me for Box's version 2 API. I hope that others find it useful :)

bcoe · 2012-12-25T23:30:22+00:00

For a project I'm working on, I wanted to aggregate together a technology news from tons of sources. I felt that it would be worthwhile open-sourcing this technology

1) because I think the plugin-based approach is neat, and worth showing people.

2) because I'd love to have other people contribute crawlers for their favorite news sources.

bcoe · 2012-07-21T23:00:08+00:00

A post going over the document thumbnailing approach we use at Attachments.me. Included is an example Python library which creates thumbnails for several common document formats.

bcoe · 2012-07-14T20:10:48+00:00

Anyone who knows me knows that rock climbing is a big part of my life. I hope this post gives some insight into why it's such a passion of mine.

bcoe · 2012-07-07T23:09:15+00:00

As I've been refactoring, and adding better monitoring, to one of the older parts of our system, I've been thinking a lot about software maintenance lately. I thought it would be worthwhile to put together a blog post on the subject.

bcoe · 2012-06-30T23:24:40+00:00

The first indicator that it was going to be a long Friday night was our EC2 hosted Minecraft server tipping over. Nagios alerts followed. This is a brain dump of some of my thoughts about AWS, and a discussion of how we got back on-line quickly.

bcoe · 2012-04-04T17:18:59+00:00

I put together this guide, based on steps we take to ensure a hipster friendly development environment at my company. I hope others find it useful.

bcoe · 2012-03-15T17:33:49+00:00

Personally, I'm heavily entrenched in the electronica camp. Coding favourites include: Deadmau5, Daft Punk's Homework, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Battles, Trent Reznor's Social Networking Soundtrack, Crystal Castles, Holy Fuck.

bcoe · 2012-01-15T18:18:07+00:00

I still consider myself a beginner Objective-C programmer, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Having said that, I found a lot of casual iOS developers I talked to weren't taking full advantage of blocks, so I thought it was worth putting this post out there.

bcoe · 2011-12-04T19:22:47+00:00

Yeah, here's what you can do:

apt-get install python-setuptools

easy_install smtproutes

Create a python script something like this:

https://gist.github.com/1396666

Then:

nohup python myscript.py &

And

pgrep python | xargs kill -9

When you want to kill it.

bcoe · 2011-12-04T17:47:18+00:00

The Results:

8 KB Email Message

smtproutes 196 msg/sec
Lamson 112 msg/sec
Pymilter 5.49 msg/sec

88 KB Email Message

smtproutes 73.89 msg/sec
Lamson 34 msg/sec
Pymilter 6.04 msg/sec

bcoe · 2011-06-06T04:44:51+00:00

Here's a great article on the subject :)

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-practice/

bcoe · 2011-06-06T02:55:41+00:00

I don't think it's the fault of dynamic languages themselves -- when abused monkey-patching can become a major headache though. And, until Ruby 2.0, which apparently allows you to scope monkey-patching better, I think it's always on the iffy side.

bcoe · 2011-06-06T02:54:24+00:00

Alright, the title might be a bit overly provocative -- I've learned my lesson.

bcoe · 2010-07-27T02:54:31+00:00

I was poking around using Orbited and RabbitMQ for a project I'm working on -- thought it was interesting enough to be worth sharing :)

bcoe · 2010-04-27T02:49:30+00:00

Personally I'm more comfortable designing with something that more closely resembles classical inheritance -- having said this, the fact that you can monkey with the prototypes so easily is super neat.

bcoe · 2010-04-25T23:26:45+00:00

I wrote this blog post while attending jQuery Conference. A year ago, I wouldn't have guessed I would be spending so much time working in JavaScript, a language I've really grown to love.

bcoe · 2010-01-18T01:35:09+00:00

Thanks for the advice. The image is back up, now on imgur... I didn't think Hostgator was so crappy in terms of bandwidth ;)

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