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What a successful release looks like

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 […]

May 27, 2008 | Code | No comments

Further observations WRT the Chinese Earthquake in Colorado

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. […]

May 13, 2008 | China | No comments

I think I felt the Chinese earthquake

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 […]

May 12, 2008 | China | No comments

May Day Seattle March

Taken a few minutes ago on S Jackson St and 2nd Ave in Seattle – a block from our office:

May 1, 2008 | Politics | No comments

Apple Basic emulator in Javascript

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 […]

May 1, 2008 | Apple | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.