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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-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.
I am Jim Groom
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Tag Archives: reclaimcloud
Turn Off the Cloud Lights!
One of the things I have been doing over the last couple of months is tracking how many resources (known in Reclaim Cloud as cloudlets) each application environment requires. This is important because the more cloudlets you use the more … Continue reading
Ow3ned or Owned?
if you're getting organized right now, consider self-hosted server infrastructure. here's what @ExtinctionR is running, by @julian0liver and here is the key slide https://t.co/WpTPlVozyJ pic.twitter.com/Tq5MRNerNW — Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 7, 2020 A week or so ago Lori Emerson shared … Continue reading
Reclaim Cloud Q&A
Yesterday Tim, Lauren, and I sat down to talk more in-depth about Reclaim Cloud, as well as use the occasion to respond to questions folks have about this new platform that’s currently in open beta. 018: Cloud Q&A If you … Continue reading
All the Tube Downloadz Belong to Reclaim Cloud
Tim just pointed me to yet another one-click application he installed on Reclaim Cloud: alltubedownload. It’s a small PHP app that creates and easy-to-use GUI interface for the youtube-dl codebase that enables you to download videos from a wide range … Continue reading
Adapting to the Reclaim Cloud
Tim has been on a full-blown roll creating one-click apps for Reclaim Cloud. In just the first few weeks we already have more custom one-click apps in Reclaim Cloud than we created through Installatron for our first few years. It … Continue reading
Reclaim Cloud’s Free Public Beta Now Open
I’ve been writing a bit about Reclaim Cloud on this blog over the past month in preparation for this: the launching of the open, public beta for Reclaim Hosting’s new cloud hosting service! It’s really exciting to share this news, … Continue reading
Mounting Directories and Copying Files between Containers in Reclaim Cloud
As I was moving both bavatuesdays and ds106 from a WordPress Cluster setup to a more simplified LEMP-based container, I was running into issues with private and public keys making it hard for me to rsync between containers. I posted … Continue reading
Holy Clustered Cloudlets, bava!
The last month needed to be a deep dive into the Reclaim Cloud, and I think I have held up my end. I migrated quite a few old sites, namely bavaghost, this blog (a couple of times), ds106 (a couple … Continue reading
Weekend Notes from Reclaim Cloud: Anth101, downsizing bava, and back to MyISAM
I spent some time Saturday and Sunday playing around with the Reclaim Cloud, I am spending more and more time in this environment, and loving it. Couple of notes here given I am prone to forget. I moved the impressive … Continue reading
Reclaim Cloud: Closer than We Think!
Tim and I finally took an hour and sat down and chatted about Reclaim Cloud at length. It was episode 17 of Reclaim Today, and I was encouraged when our colleague Meredith said it really helped her see the bigger … Continue reading