Caffeine

Caffeine is a hard drug.

It’s powerful stimulating effect has a half life in your body of 14 hours. A lot of people use it very heavily every day and spend almost no time sober.

Caffeine doesn’t cause massive hangovers or prevent work from being done though, so people mostly give it a pass.

 

AWS Server Crash

I had a strange AWS server crash. I had to force stop the server and start it again and the issue went away. Hamza and I had to work on it this morning for 3 hours. Annoying. Will be watching it closely.

Tested Recruits: Daily Recruiter Scoring

This report was not functioning because of some poorly written code by an old developer who was overly focused on abstracting things away. I fixed it this morning by doing some straightforward Eloquent queries and using a new Collection method called Transform that uses a callback to change each item. Worked well.

HN Help

My last blog post was a long one about how I came up with TestedRecruits.com. I am now trying to ask for feedback from some prominent folks on Hacker News prior to submitting it. I may also test out running some AdWords or Facebook ads to it as well. We will see.