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.
This has got to be the most aesthetically pleasing music video I’ve seen in a long time. Anybody interested in information design and visualization should really appreciate this. It’s made entirely of animated infographics. Together they tell the story of a day in the life of a working girl in London. If Tufte ever made […]
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 […]
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 remember when programming was a fun thing to do in a silo. You know, building non-networked programs. I remember just sitting down to a BASIC prompt and saying, “What can I make on this thing?” I guess the equivalent of that today is building little desktop applications.
Actually, it really bothers me that I […]
Let me start by explaining something I want to build (when I find time) called Mailhook. The idea came from building an email service (as opposed to webservice) prototype called Transmutiy that would take images via email and send you back a converted image based on the email address you sent it to. So sending […]
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 […]
Update: Let’s get serious about this shall we? A wiki has been set up to support the growing community interested in web hooks.
A while ago I realized something about our ecosystem of web applications that sort of blew me away. Since then, I’ve been trying to run it by smart people whenever I get the […]
About seven weeks ago I registered devjavu.com because it was somewhat clever and started with dev. A few days later I realized what I wanted to do with it: free, simple, instantaneous Trac and Subversion hosting.
Subversion has become the de facto standard for source control managament in the open source world. Not long ago, […]