As per Benjie.Me and Neopixels on Raspberry and also JGarff import re import time import json from slackclient import SlackClient import time from neopixel import * # LED strip configuration: LED_COUNT = 8 # Number of LED pixels. LED_PIN = 18 # GPIO pin connected to the pixels (must support PWM!). LED_FREQ_HZ = 800000 # LED …
I woke on the morn of Good Friday to find the PC at the BIOS screen with a CPU overheat error. Despite the CPU fan being listed as spinning at 1800RPM, the CPU was cooking along at 75deg or so.. Time for a shutdown and vacuum out the dust. Something I’ve done routinely in the past, but this …
Listening this morning to Micah Rosenbloom via Harry Stebbings and heard something like the following at 16 minutes.
(Harry) as Jason Lemkin at SaaStr says… the best investors are those who know the benchmarks for the next round and then are able to help the founders attain them.
(Micah) I feel there is some wisdom there, but that it was possible to become obsessed with what was required for the next round, and as a result you focus on building the deck for the next round, not on building the business… The second challenge is that the goal posts keep moving, e.g. the MRR moves from $100K to $200K to do a series A. It’s hard to build your company just for the next round.
(Micah) wishes he could put blinders on his founders, have them not talk about the next round for 12 months after taking money. This is the venture train,… immediately after you get the hit, you are after the next hit.
An balanced focus on capital efficiency on business fundamentals. Good perspective and perhaps an antidote to VC echo chamber.
Outline This is a long post about my experience at SaaStr Annual 2017 this year. I attended as development in my role as board member of Inference Technology Group. Inference is a SaaS business and so the conference focus on scaling, management and governance, unit economics, and venture capital was highly relevant. Challenges of Scaling a Saas business – …
I installed Openstack recently in order to get my head around some aspects. I used my desktop (16GB RAM, decent chunk of SSD & i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz). After looking at the 50 ways to install Openstack, I went with the developer ansible automation. Installation proceeded as follows. Install Deployment Host This contains the ansible configuration and …
Following along the CentOS howto using Centos 7.2 Just a couple of things have changed since it was written: As per the CentOS storage special interest group, you can now get the glusterfs packages without using wget to retrieve additional repos: yum install centos-release-gluster yum install glusterfs-server samba Evidently xfs filesystems should be formatted to inode size 512 bytes, …
I recently had a series of video screenshots from a Gotomeeting screencapture. The presenter screen had resolution 1366×768; the meeting organiser 1920×1080. The result was that all the images were surrounded with a black border. In turning the screencapture into a set of stills to represent as narrated video, I used the following in Gimp Start …
Evidently Sandringham used to be served by first a house drawn, and then an electric, tram. The horse drawn services were wound up in 1914 as “The cost of keeping horses for these peak [holiday] times led to the demise of the Company’s services”.
Telco profits often stem from statistical multiplexing gains – sell 1000 x 10 Mbps user services, provision only 500 Mbps backhaul. Beware, though, if you have service level obligations in peak periods and have high peak to average demand statistics.
Ref. Rotary Club of Sandringham bus shelter display on Bay Rd.
Somewhat symmetrically… back at southern cross for sunrise. Turns out our fellow passenger from London was also catching the Sandringham line, we meet him again on the platform.
Dolphins! On the bay past Brighton Beach. Good to be home.
Bristol Street Art Tours – although we could have walked the streets of Bristol for free and seen these amazing works, we wouldn’t have had a window into the other world that street artists inhabit. Our guide opened up the complexity of practicing street art – legality vs illegality, tourism, technical production, attitudes from city …