Author Archives: James Badger

Run Nginx and Pow on your Mac

Pow is a dead-simple Rack server for OS X. Easy setup, easy restarting, easy development. Nginx is a lightweight HTTP proxy server. Easy on resources, and great at what it does. Suppose you want to run Nginx to serve some … Continue reading

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Rails 3: Rack-Throttle your Rack API

Sometimes, you will want to decouple your Rails app and place your API in its own special folder in lib. You could be using Sinatra, Grape, or even your own Rack app. The advantage is you can separate out your … Continue reading

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Play Sound (Universal)

I received some requests to update the Play Sound Automator action to work with newer Macs, so I went and posted the source to Github. Upon restoring the source code from a backup, it was quite a surprise finding out … Continue reading

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