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Saving server costs with Javascript using distributed processing

I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment. Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have […]

July 16, 2007 | Code, Innovation, Startups, Technology | No comments

Lessons from three weeks of intensive I18N

When we launched LineBuzz on May 10, we had no idea that most of our press coverage was going to be Japanese. A site called 100Shiki.com put us up as dot-com of the day. All of a sudden we had lots of Japanese users. A few days later, a very popular blogger in China gave […]

July 14, 2007 | Code, I18N, LineBuzz | 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.