Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Rails and Wired magazine

Apparently I am in the March Wired magazine. I am not sure exactly what the title of the article or the exact content - but I was interview about my views on the rails community as someone who left the community and moved on to other things. (I think - I haven’t seen it - [...]

A vibrant music community has been ended

Pretty insane. Oink has been raided and the owner has been arrested.
Oink was a really neat tracker. It was apparently fast, clean and super easy. Apparently it was the biggest private bittorrent tracker. Around 180k users. That is a lot of dedicated users.
It taught a bunch of people I know about bittorrent. It was used [...]

Sadly I think I have left slashdot…

I realized a minute ago that I haven’t looked at slashdot in a month. That is really screwed up. I have been looking at slashdot for years. truly since the beginning of slashdot. I remember when they added users (I think). It has always been around. However, I just haven’t been going to the site.  [...]

ruby on rails

I decided to follow the pack of wild php developers and attack ruby on rails. it rules. in the past 30 hours of dayish time - i have spent a significant amount of time devoted to learning this new platform. it is nifty for sure. Basically it is an mvcish platform that runs off of [...]

i am hungry for launch.

so we have been workign to launch this search engine for a couple weeks now - and I think we got it. congrats everyone involved. hehe. i have been playing a lot. tonight I made a juke box for some friends, I hooked up my new website, and I slept from 6-10

i hate my new phone.

i just hate the fact that I am unable to use MMS. i seriously need to save my money. I am always running out of money. wtf. I guess my fasion lifestyle I established when I was a baller doesn’t transcend well to the non-baller status I am currently exhibiting. doh! or lack there of. :(i say this rant as I prepare to go out to sushi and a super (hah) club with my friend…

i am a fan of the community networks

it is true. recently a google employees side/personal project relaly took off. orkut is honestly what I felt friendster could have been . it doesn’t limit communication to on site. it lets you see the contact info for all your friends and maintain some form of community without limiting yourself to some shoddy infrastructure. I really like how you can create su…

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heh. I wish I really was a darksider. I have had some really weird dreams the past couple days. first I had a dream I was in a bad place. the place was a bed and the other person in the bed didn’t want me there but I couldn’t leave - so I was attempting to stay on the edge of the bed the whole night. it was an incredibly strange dream - I imagine that a dream ana…

back at work

so work is going wellish. I guess as well as work always goes. I am excited to be back. all the silliness and problems beware - I am prepared to attack ;)so I really enjoy reading peoples blogs and now that I have discovered the love of the rss aggregators and the wonders of OPML I really appreciate all that it does for me. I was reading my morning blogs when I stumbled upon

online communities

i guess I still need to write that paper on online communities and the socialization of online relationships. Especially in light of friendster and the development of virtual “ubermensch.” heh. I guess I wasn’t clear in what I was saying. I am naive enough to jump to the conclusion that I can use the idea of the ubermensch when …

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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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