Posted by mark.
May
27
Posted by mark.
I thought I’d share a little moment I had recently. We rolled out a new version of Feedjit a few days ago. Nothing changed on the user interface – so no new user features. It was mostly performance enhancements on the back-end servers.
The new code was the results of many weeks of research and testing and several weeks of implementation. When we launched this weekend I was cautiously optimistic when I saw the load drop on the servers. And now …
May
13
Posted by mark.
With regard to my previous post, another observation was that yesterday morning my dog didn’t eat his breakfast. He spent most of the day cowering. We thought he had injured himself somehow but there were no visible signs. I checked his joints and pressed his gums to watch the circulation return and everything was normal. We agreed to keep him indoors today. A few minutes ago it occured to me that he may have been sensing the 6.0 magnitude aftershocks …
May
12
Posted by mark.
Update: I have since confirmed that the time of the Chinese quake was 2:28pm (CST – Central China Time) and I felt the vibrations between 12:20am and 1:00am. Also since this writing the quake’s magnitude has been upgraded from 7.8 to 7.9 which is 1.41 times more powerful (Richter scale calculator available here). After the quake they immediately had a magnitude 6.0 aftershock and have had aftershocks ranging from 4.7 to 5.8 for a full 24 hours after …
May
1
Posted by mark.
Taken a few minutes ago on S Jackson St and 2nd Ave in Seattle – a block from our office:
May
1
Posted by mark.
I started programming on an Apple IIe at around age 11 and if you too enjoy reminiscing, check out Joshua Bell’s Apple Basic emulator implemented in Javascript.
Since my move (back) to using Apple I think my code has improved – if nothing else then from a feeling of happy nostalgia.
…And I couldn’t help myself. I wrote a similar program as a kid – except back then we had a green monochrome screen.
10 HOME : HGR
20 W = 279 : …