With The Band

A little over two years ago, in the summer between graduating and starting a “real job” I spent a good amount of time at the gym, brushing up on my various web skills, and building cool apps. I didn’t necessarily want to get rich off them, they were more exercises in taking my ideas and […]

I touched on this before, but Marc Andreesen’s essay about careers and creating and accepting opportunities rather than having a definite plan really resonated in me.
I believe a huge part of what people would like to refer to as “career planning” is being continuously alert to opportunities that present themselves to you spontaneously, when […]

I’m thinking about starting an open source project, based on a need I see. I’m working on fleshing out the idea a little bit more, and recruiting some local PHP developers I know to help me. I don’t have time for this, but who does?
One of the great things about developing third-party applications on Facebook […]

Let’s pretend for a second that the writers weren’t on strike, and we had decent TV on.
Watching TV is enjoyable, right?
It’s also fun to watch it with others. In college, we’d always get together to watch the latest episode, talk about it, etc. A shared experience is always better than sitting alone on your couch. […]

As I mentioned in a previous post, new avenues of communication complement, not replace, older methods of communication. There are a ton of ways to get in touch with me. How do you choose which one to contact for each person?
My idea? Create a system where you can sign up for a special e-mail address […]

Since the Facebook Platform has been launched a number of months ago, allowing anyone to write an application that can interact with Facebook users in any number of ways, thousands of such applications have been released. While many startups are forming (and existing ones) focusing solely on Facebook applications, a viable business model for a […]

I’m 99% serious about this.
Get a bunch of smart hackers with open source experience together, with the sole goal of keeping Firefox’s memory consumption under control. I can guarantee you will get funded be richer than your wildest dreams within a matter of hours.
Personally, I almost never pay for software (I stick with open source, […]

I’ve made significant progress, to the point I can say that I have a working alpha of Metro Times. To Check DC Metro Times on Your Cell Phone

Send a text message to metro [AT] skeevisarts [DOT] com (replace AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols).
In the message, include the first few characters of the Metro […]

I was reading an article by Paul Graham, and he mentioned this…
“…dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. They all use the same simple-minded model. They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how to do database matches instead of how dating works in the real world. An […]

Is done*. I am so 1337.
*OK, fine, it’s not totally done yet. It still is missing the SMS interface. But I am waiting for emails from vendors, and my second alternative (sending SMS through e-mail) can’t be done yet because Sun’s dev website is down for maintenance. The command line interface is awesome.
You can just […]