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

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

The other day, I decided to finish up a twitter hack idea I had and never fully executed. Awhile ago I made a bot that output the updates of my friends into my IRC channel. I did this by writing a quick bot that would log into a dedicated AIM account which received updates from [...]

Oh yea. I forgot to mention that i released a new version of my campfirenow.com bot framework. It is quite a bit better and a lot more robust - however i imagine that 37signals has changed things to stop it.
Check out the source: here
I also released a proof of concept flood. its real annoying and [...]

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happy xmas.

i made my photo frame ibook work. it rules. I just mounted it into a picture frame shadow box, and BAM. fanciness. it rules that you can remove EVERYTHING from an ibook and still h…

looky here

so this weekend has been nice. on friday my coworkers and myself went to the hard rock cafe bar and met my friend winnie for drinks. she works there and was able to hook us up a bit which offset the billion dollars the drinks normally would have cost. it was a nice place. pretty chilled out - however around 5:30 - it started to get pretty full and crazy. after that I went and picked up some butto…

the angels of darkness sweep over you.

i fixed it. well I thought I did. until it wouldn’t reload. I think that our internet here is really slow. I can’t even ssh to my boxen. weird. and dumb. wierd and dumb. together at last. man it has been a long caffiene drenched day. umm. yea. so anyway. my original post was going to be like this: so I modified my photolog recently - I made it so the most …

I got a new cell phone.

It is a lot of fun. I got a Sony Ericsson T610 from tmobile. as you probably know I was way into sprint phones for awhile. and I recently used the new number portability rule to switch from sprint to tmobile. it was relatively painless - but I spent to much on the phone. btw. bluetooth RULES. I have it so I always sync my phone when I walk into my room. I also have made it turn off my computer wh…

The last night

last night I watched rosemary’s baby. hehe. how fun. I like tha movie. You all have to check out this game. It is quite nice. Also check out this site for some fun puzzles. heh. i am so sleepy. I stayed up wyay late last night. I shouldn’t have. hehe. I had an oppurtunity to hit the sack quite ea…

Don’t ask don’t tell

Today is nerve racking. My brother is driving to california to begin what could be his career. He is actually going to go an dbe a commercial diver. He starts the vcational commercial diving achool on the 7th of january. It is pretty exciting. It reflects on me as being grown up. I don’t want to grow up. Things are also hard right now. I think that my relationship is slipping. The dist…

  

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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