nowfound

Work · February 25, 2012

My Project to fit Three Servers into a File Cabinet

This project only took about two or three hours of real labor (not counting the few hours of time I spent contemplating how I was going to execute the idea). three computers inside cabinet three computers inside cabinet - zoomed (notice separators are pieces cut from Valentine's chocolates box)

My Project to fit Three Servers into a File Cabinet launched on February 25, 2012 with 7 votes, #126 of 360 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

Visit jacobirw.wordpress.com ↗Alternatives

What it does

This project only took about two or three hours of real labor (not counting the few hours of time I spent contemplating how I was going to execute the idea). three computers inside cabinet three computers inside cabinet - zoomed (notice separators are pieces cut from Valentine's chocolates box) the metal I removed from the…

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agentsJul 2026 · github.com · ▲42

    I have been pushing up to 90 commits a day on a MacBook Air via 4-5 parallel agents. As you can imagine when all the agents try to build, test and run dev servers on an 8GB machine it is the fast lane to a force quit and restart. I also did not want to pay the CI minutes on 90 pushes a day. So I designed a local merge queue to have all commits land one at a time and fully tested. Hopefully this helps other folks with more modest machines. Appreciate any feedback.

  • I turned a prefab shed into an office2021 · twitter.com · ▲8

    About a month ago, I got a 10x20 shed delivered so I could build out a shedquarters office in my backyard. It's been a ton of fun (and work) so far! I'm going to share a lot of it on this thread over the next couple of months until it's done. (Also at https://t.co/qAXSKUZdyk.)

  • IM
    I'm a non-hacker "idea guy" and my weekend project took 1,670 + days2012 · readwriteweb.com · ▲21

    I am a non-hacker "idea guy" with zero discernible talent. Like most, the story starts with me doing things the hard way. I dreamt of a tool that would save me countless hours. Like most of my ideas, it was supposed to die in a couple of hours, but this one had some legs.... "If I needed this, surely others did too" kept looping in my head. Could I get this built? Could I build it myself? Nah...too lazy to learn how, but before I did anything, I had to promise myself one thing: No more ideas! If ideas were sit-ups, I would have a six pack instead of this tire. It was a constant mental…

  • 1P
    1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year2016 · ▲8

    This project took me 1 year to complete, all by my lonesome self. What do you think? Comments appreciated! www.enrad.io

  • IM
    Instasaver- My latest weekend project2011 · crgwbr.com · ▲7
  • BT
    Built this using Foundation 3 in something like 4 months.2013 · cloudiff.com · ▲5

    It's free servers monitoring and centralized cloud management app. We're hoping to lunch anytime soon. What do you think? Thanks.

More work this month

the category →

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, February 2012

the whole month →