About me
Edina, Minn. is home. New York, N.Y. is where I live.
Prior to New York, I lived in Spain from 2009 through 2012. While there, I became a fluent Spanish speaker, traveled a lot and became a better programmer.
Although nothing tops a long meal with good friends, I enjoy rock concerts and traveling. I won't admit to you that I like lattes. Improving my tennis game is a priority.
Kirby Puckett's performance in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series is my standard of excellence.
EC2 Linux AMI and Node
Each time I spin up a brand-new EC2 instance and install Node, I ended up with a trillion open tabs looking up obscure details to get through the installation.
If nothing else, the below will be helpful for the next time:
- Spin up a brand new EC2
- Select “Security Groups” in the EC2 console and ensure that Inbound > HTTP (Port 80) on Source: 0.0.0.0/0 will open up the instance for HTTP requests
- Set up the SSH keys with the .pem file
ssh -i /path/to/file.pem ec2-user@ec2-xxx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
- SSH into the server and install some things:
yum install gcc-c++
yum install git
yum install nginx _# if you want nginx_
- Install Node
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node/
git branch -al # find latest release branch
git checkout
./configure
make
This will take 15 to 30 minutes.
sudo make install
Create an image of your instance — compiling Node will take while. Visit the EC2 console, select the instance and follow the steps from Actions > Create Image
Have fun!
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fastcompany:
Think Your Home’s Small? Look At Hong Kong’s Illegal Microapartments
COMPLAINTS ABOUT NEEDING MORE SHOE STORAGE OR HAVING NO SPACE FOR YOUR THIRD BIKE? PLEASE. IN HONG KONG, THE PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT AVERAGES $1,300.
It can be tough to grasp the reality of living in what amounts to a very functional closet through facts and figures, though. These images, which show us a bird’s eye view of several Hong Kong microapartments, do a much better job. They were produced by a Chinese human rights group called the Society for Community Organization, whose mission is to promote equality amongst citizens. “Grassroots people are struggling day in and day out to keep their head above water,” SoCO explains. “Standing in the line of dejection are caged lodgers, tenants living in appalling conditions, aged singletons, street-sleepers, mothers with no one-way permit to live in Hong Kong, families made up of new immigrants and boat dwellers.”
They estimate that over 100,000 people are living in unauthorized apartments in the city, a number that may well be low.
Here’s the full story.
This is amazing.
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