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brianjesse

21 karma · joined July 6, 2010

passed W3C's Social Web Acid Test w/ an open source µblogging app -- http://instagr.am/brianjesse http://twitter.com/brianjesse sports photographer behind the ancient meme known as "Hover Cat"
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brianjesse··on Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
it's the return of slipknot
brianjesse··on Word Perhect
even the name of this is funny, well done
brianjesse··on Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth
oh I see now that she didn't take the actual picture but Jason Madara did that -
brianjesse··on Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth
I love the way she used a super wide shot to pull in so many graphic elements - beautifully done, Kate Courteau.
brianjesse··on When Einstein Met Tagore
Some of Tagore's work is available as volunteer-recorded public domain mp3 and ogg files from librivox.org -- the recordings for Tagore's book "Sadhana: The Realization of Life" are very well done, by a volunteer named Peter Yearsley http://librivox.org/sadhana-by-rabindranath-tagore-v2/
brianjesse··on We’re creating a culture of distraction
When I take my kids places, I take the sim out of my iphone and put it in a dumbphone I got off ebay. It's like a time warp.
brianjesse··on Spine.js vs Backbone.js
thanks for the upvote! I'm guessing it's because i'm promoting my own project
brianjesse··on Spine.js vs Backbone.js
I made a collection of 4 Spine example apps that use a regular PHP backend - click "Examples" http://docs.structal.org/#/pages/87293423
brianjesse··on RSS will never die
the <cloud> element solves the problem of polling, it lets you subscribe to feed-updated notifications and read the feed only when it changes.

also, Atom has threading and RSS has some community efforts underway to make "replies" decentralized and aggregable (new word) http://xmlns.inreplyto.me/

brianjesse··on Matador: MVC for Node
I interviewed for a job @Twilio - they were using Handlebars, a Mustache variant. Also, here is my mini-chance to rant about that: I had 4 phone and 6 in-person interviews -- didn't get hired. Argh! How could anyone make it through that? Also - i'm a generalist, which seems to have kept me out of both Facebook and Twilio. /rant
brianjesse··on Complete Google App Engine + Backbone.js + Require.js Todo list Web App Example
I made a spine.js Todo list for any php back-end + couch/mongo/pgsql -- it jquery-polls a _changes feed to show todos that other people add

code https://github.com/voitto/structal.todos

demo http://todosdemo.structal.org

brianjesse··on Video of My First Pitch and What I Learned
that's a pretty good analysis, nice work
brianjesse··on Media Temple Hacked?
We've been using a $20/mo MediaTemple grid server for site hosting the past 8 months, haven't noticed any downtime before this.
brianjesse··on Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh
I used SlipKnot for that -- it converted a shell-dialup at University of Oregon into a SLIP connection that I could use with Netscape 1.0
brianjesse··on How young is too young? - When to expose kids to technology?
I'm a dad of 2 and 4 year old boys, and a technical co-founder. I gave my kids a Mac SE with MacPaint and they like opening/saving documents and making paintings. I figure I'll let them play video games after they've learned to code some simple games, because then they'll be able to change the game. I've noticed other people's kids (older 9-10yrs) are "device kids" always with their nose pointed at some mobile device (gameboy, ipod) i'm trying to avoid that.
brianjesse··on A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Derek Sivers reviewed this book recently http://sivers.org/book/StoicJoy
brianjesse··on Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery
Have you seen Qooxdoo? I've made some very desktop-like apps with it http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/showcase/#form
brianjesse··on This is not the Freehackers Union...
I joined the group -- may organize an event in Portland
brianjesse··on Ask HN: What have you built with Erlang?
I built a real-time news widget that streams (hyper)local news and public records (marriage licenses, liquor permits, etc). Media companies partner with us http://nozzlmedia.com we've doubled the time visitors spend on their Web pages.

Erlang was a good fit for us, mostly because of the tools available around it, such as Nitrogen http://nitrogenproject.com a powerful JavaScript/Erlang framework. Erlang apps seem robust and lean.