travis jeffery

Running one agent is easy.

Running one agent is easy.

Running one agent is easy.

You can't hire with certainty.

We wanted just-in-time permissions at Oscilar.

Twilio acquired Segment for $3.2 billion in an all-stock deal.

I began programming with Emacs but didn’t get it.

Most people who would bother with the matter at all would admit that the layout of Go projects is in a bad way.

There’s a magical address in EC2 that you can query to get metadata on that instance (http://169.254.169.254).

I wrote a worker to track consumer offset lags with StatsD so that you can graph them in Grafana or something similar.

Make sure you’ve installed and configured the aws-cli and jq.

Using Docker and VirtualBox and having trouble making outbound connections?

Here’s a post on Segment’s blog on a custom Zendesk app I wrote to help our support team.

I thought it’d be cool to show what albums I’m listening to lately on my site, so I wrote a client lib and and Amazon Lambbda function to get the albums from your Rdio Heavy Rotation and put them on your site.

Koa is a web framework that’s the next generation Express in that it’s built by the same team, and aims to be smaller, more expressive, and more robust for building web applications and APIs.

Here’s a post on Segment’s blog on our new infrastructure setup I’ve been working on.

Here’s how you can write docker images that you can pipe into: Dockerfile, here I’m installing the go programs I’m going to run and pipe into: FROM golang RUN go get github.com/segmentio/throttle RUN go get github.com/segmentio/json_to_nsq COPY entrypoint…

Here’s how to use Ido in Emacs to write your own interactive functions with completion.

Fun little project I wrote in Go!

From a very high level POV, here’s how Segment’s API used to work and works now: Our traffic is to the point where performance problems started emerging where we were blocking our Node api’s event loop, primarily due to object reification when serializing…

Open Chrome and in the menu, under “Chrome”, click “Hide Notifications Icon”.

Been meaning on shipping this project for a while now.

Recently added support for promises in mocha.

I released Jasmine-jQuery v2.0.0 which adds support for Jasmine v2.0.0.

While writing my own debugging lib, an idea I was toying with was having a debug macro look like one of the built-in @ compiler directives, e.g.

Recently added to Clang v3.4 are awesome tools for formatting your code and a new command clang-format.

Update: I wrote this code to show that iA was patenting a feature built into Apple’s frameworks.

If you’re using Interface Builder with auto layout and go to write some layout constraints in code you may run into the following error - where the constraints you’ve added in code conflict with layout constraints ‘IB auto generated at build time for view…

You’re likely here because you thought you could just do this: NSTextView *textView = [NSTextView new]; [textView setEditable:NO]; [textView setAutomaticLinkDetectionEnabled:YES]; [textView setString:@"homesite: http://travisjeffery.com/ and twitter: http…

This week I switched from working on iOS apps at 37signals to working on a similar mac app.

Boom goes the dynamite.

UIScrollViewDelegate has the method: -[UIScrollViewDelegate scrollViewDidEndDragging:willDecelerate:], and the decelerate parameter is NO when the scroll view has finished scrolling.

TRVSEventSource provides an api for opening an http connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of server-sent events.

I wrote TRVSMonitor, a synchronization construct with the ability to wait until signalled that a condition was met.

When i’m hacking on open source libs i maintain, i often have to clean up the commits of people’s prs.

If you’re running your app in Xcode and the simulator, they may hang saying Attaching to your app name....

Use -[AFHTTPRequestSerializer setAuthorizationHeaderFieldWithUsername:password:] on -[AFHTTPSessionManager requestSerializer].

In Terminal.app, copy-and-paste and run: defaults write com.google.googletalkplugind exps -string [\"-tm\"]

Here ya go.