Over the past few years I’ve had a growing interest in education. Something always seemed weird about the way we’ve been going about education with schools. My experience with school felt like it was going against the grain of education and the more research I do, the more obvious it becomes.
My study in systems […]
There once was a command line. It was a powerful thing. Not only could you navigate your filesystem and launch applications, you could program shell scripts to automate tasks and make convenient shortcuts.
One of the major sources of power there was the simple construct of input and output. A program could read from STDIN […]
I’m planning and preparing a new blog that will focus on systemics. Hopefully it will make a difference in the world and help us deal with the implications of facts like these…
glumbert.com - Shift Happens
This came to my attention by Creative Generalist, which is a blog that’s about another major theme of my upcoming blog.
I’m piloting a new event on April 14th at my apartment I’m calling an inspirathon video night. The idea is simple: get together to watch a number of great modern speakers on a big screen talk about a variety of intellectually stimulating topics. But now I’m going to embellish the idea with a slight rant […]
I just realized what would make OS X Leopard’s Time Machine really useful. More useful than it’s supposed to be. Right now, it archives and allows you to go back in time for files and data in applications that decide to use their API. For some people this might be useful, but for most I […]
Lately I’ve been trying to figure how we can have open source web services. Not just the software code, but the running of a service built with the software. How can we get the same benefits at the service level?
The reason I’ve been thinking about this is now that we’re starting to have the interconnective […]
Today I was at the house of colleague and co-conspirator Adam Smith and we were talking about using distributed hash tables for something interesting, like as a decentralized storage host for a giant rainbow table. I’m not sure how (because I was busy thinking about money and signing up for Google Adsense), but the idea […]
I’ve mentioned Mailhook a few times, but I haven’t spent a lot of time writing about it. Let me introduce it to you properly:
Mailhook is the easiest way to accept email in your web apps.
Using Mailhook, you can receive email directly into your scripts and applications as easy as handling a form post. This […]
I’m going to start openly writing about my project ideas.
For a long time I’ve had a very protective attitude towards my ideas, only sharing them with close friends until there’s a prototype. There’s definitely benefits to talking about ideas to more people early on. You get that feedback loop started much earlier, which not […]
Today (well, yesterday) Netflix announced the project we were working with them on: Netflix Prize, a contest that offers $1 million to anybody that can substantially increase their recommendation algorithm. It was written about in the NY Times and was subsequently Dugg.
We built the site for it that basically just manages the teams, interfaces […]