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Jeff Geerling
Personal blog · midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerlingprogrammingsystemshardware
Jeff Geerling writes Midwestern Mac, LLC, a personal blog at midwesternmac.com about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Getting Gigabit Networking on a Raspberry Pi”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jeff Geerling's posts on Raspberry Pi power draw and brownouts, speeding up Vagrant shared folders with rsync instead of NFS, and a hosted Solr services page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making the web a better place since 2008. Midwestern Mac, LLC specializes in infrastructure and software development, media production, and book publishing. Please follow @midwesternmac on Twitter to view our latest work, and view some of our present and former projects on the Services page.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting Gigabit Networking on a Raspberry Pi3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-02-17
- Raspberry Pi Zero Power Consumption Comparison3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-27
- NFS, rsync, and shared folder performance in Vagrant VMs2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-11-24
- Tips for a better Vagrant-based development workflow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-21
- Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-01
- The Drupal Way™2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-13
What Hacker News says?
I guess I meant a raspberrypi 2. :) http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gig...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking
on “GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack”Submitted Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison as a story · 180 points
HN discussionHere are a few benchmarks I ran against DO, Linode, and Hot Drupal (another provider I've used in the past): http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/2013-vps-be... I've been very happy with my testing on Digital Ocean; the servers are fast, they remain up as much as any other provider, and the interface/service is great, and is improving every month. The only sore spot is that two times I've had intermitten…
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/2013-vps-benchmarks-linode
on “The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean”Submitted Raspberry Pi Zero – Conserve power and reduce draw to 30mA as a story · 178 points
HN discussionLooking for hosted Solr solutions I found also: http://www.opensolr.com/ http://www.solrhq.com/ http://www.midwesternmac.com/services/hosted-solr-search http://www.netaphorsearch.com/products/solr-hosting http://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network/cloud... (they're mainly targeted to drupal) anything else?
Comment linking /services/hosted-solr-search
on “Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month”Submitted Raspberry Pi Zero Power Consumption Comparison as a story · 59 points
HN discussionApparently syncing file changes between the VM and host via rsync leads to a lot better performance than using NFS. Worth a shot at least: https://www.vagrantup.com/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-5-r... http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-a...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-and-shared-folder
on “Atlas by Hashicorp”Submitted 2013 VPS Benchmarks - Linode, Digital Ocean and Hot Drupal as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIt is normal that you are experiencing brownouts if you assume 500 mA is available. If you power a RPi via micro USB, then the 500mA budget is shared between the RPi and all your peripherals. Your post doesn't say which RPi model you have, but a B+ or a gen2 B will draw anywhere from 230-420 mA idle, so your periphals only have 80-270 mA available. [1] http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-p...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power
on “Raspberry Pi Zero – Conserve power and reduce draw to 30mA”Submitted Getting Gigabit Networking on a Raspberry Pi as a story · 9 points
HN discussionKeep in mind the choice of using a raspberry Pi comes along with the compromises made in the design of the Pi. For this specific use case, be aware that both network and USB bandwidth are limited. This'd be great for a network backup drive, where something like Time Machine or cron/rsync are regularly-but-not-continuously writing to the drive, but it'd fall to it's knees pretty quickly if you use it to host a househ…
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking
on “Western Digital and OwnCloud Team Up to Bring OwnCloud to Home Users”Submitted Vagrant web development – is VMware better than VirtualBox? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you're using FeedBurner and haven't already, consider enabling the MyBrand service. It's free, and gives you full control of the feed URL. I wrote instructions for doing so here: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/using-feedb... [Edit: link]
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/using-feedburner-sake-control
on “Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down…”Submitted Benchmarking PHP 7 vs. HHVM – Drupal and Wordpress as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo, but you can only buy USB 3.0 adapters with gigabit ratings (all the USB 2.0 adapters max out at 10/100). See: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gig...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking
on “Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster Assembly Tutorial”Submitted Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison – 2015 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's one-time right now (though there's an open ticket to make it bidirectional [1]), but you can use `vagrant rsync-auto` to watch for changes and continously sync. I posted an article a few weeks ago highlighting one of the reasons I use rsync rather than NFS shares with Vagrant [2]. Though I would love to see FUSE+rsync (like this article mentions) as a default/standard option in Vagrant! [1] https://github.com/m…
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-and-shared-folder
on “Asynchronous filesystem replication with FUSE and rsync”Submitted Benchmarking Drupal 8 on PHP 7 vs. HHVM as a story · 2 points
HN discussion...but also much faster than normal/native shared folders: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmw... NFS can be useful in many scenarios, but using native FS (or using rsync to sync instead of mount a shared folder) is always going to win that battle.
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmware-7-vs-virtualbox-5-benchmarks
on “VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison”Submitted Tips for a better Vagrant-based development workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIronic that I just posted VMware vs VirtualBox performance comparison earlier this morning: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmw...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmware-7-vs-virtualbox-5-benchmarks
on “VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison”Submitted Solr and Drupal, a History as a story · 2 points
HN discussion" I wonder if the author could try disabling HDMI to see if power is reduced...." from comments ~ http://www.midwesternmac.com/comment/3216#comment-3216 in this article, "Controlling both the PWR and ACT LEDs on the Raspberry Pi 2" ~ http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-p...
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power
on “Raspberry Pi Zero Power Consumption Comparison”Submitted Responsive design is better than mobile sites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have been benchmarking different usage scenarios for sharing files between hosts and VMs for the past couple years, and for the majority of use cases, the only way to get near-native performance without much hassle is to use Vagrant's rsync support instead of native shared folders or even NFS, which exhibits some jitter making it annoying at times. See: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-a.…
Comment linking /blogs/jeff-geerling/nfs-rsync-and-shared-folder
on “Comparing Filesystem Performance in Virtual Machines”Submitted The Drupal Way™ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop letting .DS_Store slow you down [git] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for a better Vagrant-based development workflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Drupal Way as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dramble – a Raspberry Pi 2 cluster running Drupal 8 as a story · 1 points
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