Month: December 2015

10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk

theuserisdrunk.com

OK, this is pure gold.  First of all, this is probably the greatest title ever. “10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk“.  Secondly, this post links to The User Is Drunk website, which is a brilliant idea and … a business, apparently.  Thirdly, it reiterates once again over the things that couldn’t be recommended strong enough:

  1. Don’t say too much
  2. Tell me who your site is for
  3. Solve the need, and tell me what it is
  4. Don’t copy paste
  5. Hide anything non-essential
  6. Make sure every link on your homepage works
  7. Not every site needs to be flashy
  8. Time on site is not the only metric
  9. Use web standards
  10. Stand out

Excellent stuff!

Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds

Netflix shares the process they use to quickly assess performance issues on a Linux machine.  With these commands you can get a good idea of what’s going on within about 60 seconds:

uptime
dmesg | tail
vmstat 1
mpstat -P ALL 1
pidstat 1
iostat -xz 1
free -m
sar -n DEV 1
sar -n TCP,ETCP 1
top

Read the rest of the article for details and explanations.