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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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-James D. Calder
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-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Tag Archives: reclaim
Reclaim Hosting: the Site on the Edgeport of Forever Uptime
This post was cross-posted to Reclaim Hosting’s new company blog “Reclaim the Blog,” so you can read this post there as well. To be clear, forever uptime is a dangerous claim, and anyone that promises you 24/7, 100% uptime is … Continue reading
Offloading Peertube Media to S3
My last post documented offloading Azuracast media to Digital Ocean’s Spaces, and this is a follow-up on the offloading theme. Only this time it was for my Peertube instance hosted at bava.tv. I’ll be honest, this could have been a … Continue reading
bava on the Edge
On the edge, I’ve been there And it’s just as crowded as back home. Dag Nasty, “La Peñita” Yesterday I did a little experimenting on the good old bava.blog to test the notion of application delivery networks (ADNs). You probably … Continue reading
Macaulay Migrations, Random Litespeed Issues, and S3 Media Offloads – Oh My!
[Lessons learned: never do a victory lap on your blog before the migration is in the bag.] It’s been well over a month in the making, and in many ways it started my descent into the Mouth of Madness that … Continue reading
Containerizing Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
Taylor and I did a stream yesterday wherein we (royal) set about taking one of my experimental Mastodon instances (bava.social) and moving it from a Debian VPS into a Docker container. We got the bug after a recent open source … Continue reading
Hitting an Open Source Update Trifecta
One of the things I have been working on recently is stitching together a bunch of open source tools for an online “Oblivion University,” if you will. I’ll write about that more in another post, but I just wanted to … Continue reading
Remember to Reclaim September
It’s been a month, the new semester is in full force and I am just coming up for some air. I’ve a bunch to share in more detail, but this post will be a bit of a summary of highlights … Continue reading
Preparing for ReclaimPress
I’m pretty excited because one of the things I’ve been looking forward to for several months now, is testing and documenting ReclaimPress, which will be Reclaim Hosting’s latest product. In short, ReclaimPress offers performant, high-available WordPress hosting for when you … Continue reading
August Community Chat: Reclaim Social Networks
For Reclaim Hosting’s August Community Chat we had the good fortune of being joined by Bonnie Russell of Michigan State University’s MESH Research Lab to talk with us about the work she is part of to think more broadly about … Continue reading
Notes on WP Offload Media
At Reclaim Hosting we’ve been exploring plugins for offloading media from larger WordPress instances to object storage such as AWS’s S3 or Digital Ocean’s Spaces. There are a lot of good reasons to do this: First and foremost, we want … Continue reading