I have been working at skinnyCorp for about 2.4 years. We have grown a lot in that time. It is really cool to think about. When I started, we had 3 servers, a lot of traffic and were selling quite a few shirts a day. Now, we are approaching 40 servers, a veritable ass load [...]

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I work at a crazy place. No matter what the occasion or day there is something absolutely insane going on. Everyone at work is insanely creative, talented and generally amazing. We are all very different as well. Its really fun. I am always attempting to think of some activity to harness this energy and creativity. [...]

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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 [...]

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Ivan and I are in Santa Clara this week for the mysql conference. We are going to learn how to make threadless so fast that it breaks hearts. That is really fast. We got here a bit earlier today and have been waiting for our rooms to become ready. The weather is great - about [...]

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In the last year or so Threadless has grown insanely. When I started in 2005, we had around 2 servers and a bundle of downtime. Now, just a year and a half later we have an assload of servers and haven’t had any load based downtime in almost 6 months. Its awesome. We have really [...]

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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 [...]

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