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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.
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Tag Archives: reclaimcloud
Migrating ds106radio
First and foremost, Grant Potter rules! He spent almost a decade keeping ds106radio online without interruption, and in many ways we are simply trying to return the station to its former innovative harmony that Grant managed so graciously for years. … Continue reading
Playing in the Cloud: Integrating Etherpad with Jitsi
One of the first things Tim showed me when we starting using Jitsi internally was the ability to integrate Etherpad Lite. I wanted to give it a try given I am working on demoing fully open source replacement for Zoom/Google … Continue reading
Costs in the Cloud
The other day I converted my beta account in Reclaim Cloud to a paid account to get a sense of costs. The idea of paying for resources on a per-app basis is a new way of approaching how I manage … Continue reading
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