There’s a new release of CosmX (0.2).
Download the latest version from Github and never download it manually again!
This release comes with an auto-updater which will unleash more of your machine’s stats.
Let me know what else you would like CosmX to track.
CosmX is a menu bar application for Mac OS X that updates a Cosm feed with your system’s current CPU usage.
It tracks each virtual core as a separate datastream. All you need to do is provide it a Cosm feed id and an api key.
That’s all there is to it!
Here’s one of my feeds using CosmX.
I just wrote a little hack to track your Google Latitude Location.
Choose ‘Enable and show best available location’ or ‘Enable and show city-level only’
Copy your user id (it’ll be a number like -77777777777)
http://cosm-stalkr.herokuapp.com/location/-7777777777 # replacing your user id
Stalk me on Cosm
We used to run internal hackdays at Pachube and found them extremely productive. Come to work on Friday, use the Pachube API, make something cool and show it at the end of the day. They were always immensely useful for finding bugs and gaps in our API. In fact a single hackday was often better than weeks of R&D, when it came to improving the core product. For some reason they fizzled out over time but we have brought them back in 2012.
As we are rolling out oAuth soon, I thought having an oAuth themed hackday to kick off the year seemed logical. Others started getting excited about the prospect of the return of hackdays and extended the invitation out to interesting techies passing through London that day.
Suddenly something changed, as we had inadvertently imposed rules and a certain formality to proceedings. Even though we still managed to debug several issues within our oAuth workflow, the usual level of creativity and fun somewhat died.
I’ve had brilliant ideas brewing for weeks but they don’t fit the theme!
oAuth sucks!
Who is going to entertain the guests?
Must we form groups to include them?
After thinking about better ways of running them and agreeing with much of this post on stackexchange, I believe our next internal hackday should follow a few basic guidelines:
We are hiring and will continue to do so over the next few months.
As you may or may not know, we were recently acquired by LogMeIn. What this means is that we can finally achieve the targets we’ve been striving to reach.
The only thing holding us back right now is the size of the team (we are 4 engineers).
Pachube is basically an API designed to facilitate the connection of every internet enabled device past, present and future.
Whether you want to store sensor readings, allow two remote devices to communicate/control each other, aggregate stats from small/large-scale research projects, check if you left the oven on, control traffic light timings based on traffic flow, see the impact of natural phenomena in realtime, study livestock, monitor and control your home, Pachube is the platform that allows all of it to happen.
However, to fully realise that on a global scale there is a ton of work to be done.
You can’t argue that this terribly named world “The Internet of Things” is going to be very real very soon. I can guarantee that Pachube are at the forefront and there are few, if any, London based startups that are as exciting and potentially epic as ours is.
We have massive amounts of work to do on the API but we also need to put a tremendous amount of effort onto our web front. We need to create a compelling experience for developers, manufacturers and most importantly anyone else familiar with a browser. We need new ideas and to implement existing ideas in order to shape the IoT at this crucial time in the industry.
Basically we need to scale the fuck up and reach the fuck out.
If you are interested, think you can help, want to disrupt the future of the internet and are primarily a nice person, we want to hear from you.
We want front-end developers, software developers and the devops master now.
Email me or find me on Twitter!