27 May
Posted by Harper in Technology at 11:32 AM
Tags: hacking, ideas, jabber, projects, Technology, thinking
You know when you are speaking and you are have a word stuck in your head and you can’t quite think what it is. it is on the tip of your tongue or whatever. Well for the past couple weeks, whenever someone mentions jabber, gtalk or xmpp or whenever I start thinking about those topics - [...]
10 Jan
Posted by Harper in Technology at 11:39 AM
Tags: beta, interesting, p2p, projects, social, Technology, television, venice-project, web-2.0
The Venice Project is a P2P social television project by the guys who made Skype. They are really into disruptive technologies and I am excited to be a part of the beta. You can get more information at the Venice Project wikipedia page.
I am pretty excited to see how it goes. I played with it [...]
27 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 10:09 AM
Tags: art, projects, seditionaries, shirts, voip
Man. i got up today at 6:30. WTF. That is not normal. and i am sick. i have a running nose, a stomach ache and my throat is scratchy. Sad. I hope this passes… the getting up early not the sickness.
Last night i finished up the first draft of my ambient device. it is pretty [...]
09 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 03:44 AM
Tags: asterisk, awesome, books, projects, threadless, voip, work
Whew.
I have this secret plan to start blogging more regularly and to up the level of intelligence that go into the posts. I am trying to diminish the amount of “so. i went to a club and then i went to another club and there were people” posts - instead having “so. i went to [...]
27 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:05 AM
Tags: audio, electronics, hacking, projects, t-amp
So. I have been at work a lot lately.
So my amp mod is pretty dope. Although i get a fierce hum when i charge the battery - i have decided to move forward and build the rest of it. I think i am going to build four distinct parts. First the power supply. i [...]
You have GOT to check this out. It is absolutely amazing. It is a hiphop version of weakest link. So goddamn funny.
Check out our families plan for the coming year: Catapult Industries.
we rule.
i got a lot of work done today.
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. [...]
08 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 06:50 PM
Tags: andy, food, on, projects, rails, railsday, ruby
So andy and i did rails day on saturday. It was quite an experience. We started about 10am and worked until about 6pm. We got almost the entire way through the application with some MAJOR pieces missing - but not so bad for barely 8 hours or whatever. we totally coudl have finished if we [...]
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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