About two years ago, I had an idea to add a sleep timer to the Roku remote control iOS app that I had written, Romote.

Amazon SNS provides a cost-effective way to send push notifications to mobile devices. This is especially true for the relatively low push volume generated by something like the Roku sleep timer in Romote. Using SNS for mobile push is also supported well by the Ruby aws-sdk.

UPDATE 12/21/2015 I’ve released a new stand-alone Roku sleep timer named Ro To Sleep. You can read the announcement for all of the details, but the short version is that Ro To Sleep is focused on just sleep timer functionality.

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I’ve been using two Roku streaming players for just over two years now. Channels are added regularly and the addition of WatchESPN recently added some sports - something that’s noticeably missing from many streaming solutions.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see my presentation at CPOSC yesterday.

I recently enabled SSL for a Rails 3 site that I’m working on. I thought it would be simple since the entire site will be served over SSL (no switching between SSL and non-SSL requests based on the page).