04 Jun
Posted by Harper in Technology at 09:30 PM
Tags: coding, f8, facebook, flickr, Technology, threadless
So I decided to jump in and write a facebook application. It was really fun and pretty easy. For those of you who haven’t been following this, Facebook released development kit for their site that allows third parties to develop applications that reside inside of facebook’s website. It is pretty nifty.
So I used the [...]
06 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 04:15 AM
Tags: bored, chris, coding, hot, issak, television, videos
so i sit in front of my TV and listen to music or watch old movies while i code. It is probably killer on my back and such - but it makes coding a lot less lonely and i get a lot done. But tonight it was really bad. My airport express was being a [...]
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
11 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:09 PM
Tags: adsense, apple, audrey, audreyhacking, blogs, coding, design, google, hacking, harper, internet, mambo, osx, php, reed, search, Sites, source, war, wiki, wordpress, work
where the deer and the antelope play. where seldom is heard a discouraging word. and the eyes eat cowboys all day. Oh yea. it is the weekend. I am soooo sleepy. I am going to have a meet and greet. and then have a meet and sleep. and t…
25 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:26 PM
Tags: action, amjad, books, chicago, coding, crobar, games, google, halloween, harper, hiromi, internet, job, juggle, matiss, movies, nokia, nyc, philosophy, phone, school, search, Sites, tools, video
heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:
[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job
So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…
07 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 12:03 PM
Tags: action, aim, apple, author, books, business, coding, humor, internet, job, juggling, laptop, music, php, rock, worldbook
last night was pretty fun. I hung out with hannah. we went to the faint. but first I slept until 8. rule. I love naps. I nede to eat better and sleep better. that is the way to the future. anyway. I hung out with hannah and we saw the faint. it was pretty good. tv on the radio ruled me.
20 Aug
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:03 AM
Tags: books, coding, dad, fear, insane, rock, watership
it doesn’t work. having a crazy scedule where you are up from 11 to 6 and sleep from 6 to 9 and then are up from 9 until 6 is insane. it creates ghosts in my head. I was hanging out at work yesterday morning - about 24hrs ago - and I thought I heard voices calling my name. I scurried off home. full of fear of zombies and demons. it ruled. I even took a cab. cuz I didn’t trust the train. place i…
28 Jul
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:46 PM
Tags: coding, hiromi, irc, itunes, server, wedding
the past couple days have been real chill. I have listened to front 242 exclusively. it is nice. I am a fan of head hunter. of course. i remembered again how to use multiple irc servers with scrollz:/window new hide[esc 2]/window server irc.whatever.org/join #irule
22 Mar
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:37 PM
Tags: chris, coding
well. basically I feel right now that when you get down it is pretty easy to look up. I just had a meeting. it was really dumb. I stopped listening months ago. hah. just kidding ;) I stopped listening soemtime in the meeting. and then realized that they were talking about something I needed to listen to . so I attempted to replay what had happaned in my mind. it was hard. however. somehow in the …
18 Mar
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:10 PM
Tags: aim, birthday, blogs, bush, business, chris, coding, college, hiromi, insane, irc, myspace, phone, reed, religion, rock, tools, video, war, women
so I went and got accupuncture last night. I think I am done for a bit. I originally went to alleviate some back pain I had gained from wrestling - however the back pain is gone. so wheni arrived yesterday I realized that I really had know ailments for her to manipulate. I was perfect. so the session ended up just being weird and boring I mean.. it isn’t really suppsoed to be entertaining - but …
Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.
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