Category Archives: technology

first post using snowflake, my new WordPress plugin for syndicating personal published content #indieweb

Git is the next Unix

Avery Pennarun in 2008: With git, we’ve invented a new world where revision history, checksums, and branches don’t make your filesystem slower: they make it faster. They don’t make your data bigger: they make it smaller. They don’t risk your data integrity; they guarantee integrity. They don’t centralize your data in a big database; they […]

Hum – A Personal URL shortener for WordPress

While I haven’t had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I’ve been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early efforts in DiSo were focused just on how to move social data around the […]

Cached Commons

I’ve been working on rebuilding the theme for my site as I find a free hour or two every now and then. Eventually I’d like to do a new design, but for now I’m just working on rewriting the code itself. That will be a post for another day, but one of my focuses is […]

Going to Google

I’m happy to announce today that I’ve accepted a job at Google, working on the newly formed Social Web team. I will be joining fellow new-hires Joseph Smarr and Chris Messina, as well as a host of other incredibly talented engineers, in contributing to the emerging standards and growing developer community in this space. Instead […]