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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, XMPP, Hacking, Baphomet

How myspace treats its users

So myspace is annoying. Don’t get me wrong. i have two accounts and over a thousand “friends” – but i hate how the site looks, works and exists. It is like the bastion of all i hate on the internet. Bad design, Bad usability and bad user relations. Myspace hates their users. They blame their [...]

The last couple weeks have been ultra nerdy. It has been great. I got my gumstix and have been rocking that – attempting to get a handle on how i am going to make that work. It doesn’t seem like it will be all that hard to theoretically make. I am worried about having to [...]

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As you probably noticed, i was at work late last night. As usual, My coworker andrew was also here. Often when it is just the two of us – we theorize and talk about everything that is going on like two old stoners in a VW van. Its nuts. We cover everything from office politics [...]

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itunes.. automagic updating of recent listened to songs

recently apple released a pretty good COM sdk for its itunes program. my friend ajc created some sample code that would post whatever song you are listening to currently to a webpage. I found this pretty cool. and quite handy. so I implement my own v…

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accurate punctures

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 …

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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