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

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

I think i forgot i even had a blog

Work has been really crazy. We are having a sale and its nutso. are servers were totally owned by our users and we had to fight every one of them to survive. but we did it. and now threadless is ruling – more or less. soon it will be ruling always. and forever. flickr is [...]

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So weddings. and working. and being poor.

So i keep screwing up my money world. I keep paying bills to aggressively or whatever and making myself poor. its stupid. i hate it. i am about to stop being poor. haha. The past week i have been at work forever. I have been chaparoning the graffiti guys at work and staying late working [...]

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dang

(04:27:38) harper: i am work late ;) (04:28:00) Suresh: that’s kinda obvious. (04:28:17) harper: hahaha i need to go home. i have been at work since 12. almost 17 hours. that is messed up. lakshmi has posted an interesting take on squidoo. I think the hype machine that is in full motion right now is [...]

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good long weekend.

I am glad to be back to work. I can’t wait to really hit work hard. i feel it coming soon. the work. i am pretty excited. i am thinking about bulding an intranet haha. just a place to put rss feeds and the like of our various interweb resources. anyway.. this weekend: On friday [...]

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seriously. new orleans got knocked the fuck down. It is amazing how nature can take a piece of something that we think is strong and then remove our conception of strength without even thinking of it. I remember reading the other day about how the hurricane had POUNDED miami and it was going to disrupt [...]

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new skinnyCorp site… check it

so jake and jeffrey rocked out this site in like negative 10 days. it was done nice and fast. check it out: skinnyCorp. Oh yea. work is awesome. i finally got my computer up and running. tonight i had dinner with claudia, steve, tasha and friends. it was really nice. i love them. so nice [...]

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i remembered that mark verbos was playing his live set at smartbar (and by remember i mean greg told me). It was amazing. Verbos is quite something. i love distortion and hearing it build and seeing him do his little knob thing. haha. so good. i took some pictures. He has posted an MP3 of [...]

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work is fun

i enjoy work. it is fun. the people are nice. i am excited to get relaly involved and spend days and nights here. haha. i have a lot of monitor at my desk. a combined amount of 47inches. w00t. the best is the little 7″ lilliput display. totally for irc and by irc i mean [...]

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working

i am about to start my new job. Like i need to write down the address and arrive – and magically i will be employed. You can’t imagine how excited i am. being unemployed has been rough on my life. i like not doing stuff. but i miss having excess brain time to do hacks [...]

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sorta car sick.

its like the rat that has to step on the shocking plate to get the morphine drip to his brain. i am using my laptop and playing on the internet while riding in a car. it is making my stomach uneasy. but i love the internet. so confusing. i am excited to finally exit the [...]

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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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