How to fund open source
Again this year, funding for open source is making noise. Throwing their hands in the air, breathless open source advocates on the Orange…
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That party was way worse than it sounds
Last week Vanity Fair published a pretty intense article (an excerpt from Emily Chang’s upcoming “Brotopia”) about Silicon Valley’s sex…
Why would Facebook fire Peter Thiel?
Does anyone else think it was kinda insane that people suggested Peter Thiel should be fired from Facebook’s board and as a Y Combinator…
The tech behind hkrn.ws
I made a URL shortener for Hacker News. The project itself is pretty simple, but the tech stack behind it is pretty interesting. I built it…
Introducing Hkrn.ws
Hkrn.ws is a URL shortener for hacker news.
My CircleCI blog posts
For the last 4 years, my creative juices have mostly been applied to writing about CircleCI, the developer ecosystem, and Continuous…
Why we shut NewsTilt down
NewsTilt was a YCombinator-backed startup which aimed to provide services to help journalists become entrepreneurs and earn a living off their work online. It closed down in July 2010, a total of 8 months after it was founded.
A while back, we announced to our journalists that we shut NewsTilt
A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular.
I’ve worked on phc since 2005, and been its maintainer since 2007. I wrote the optimizer, and nearly everything performance related.