hi
Posting from the iPhone app.
Maybe I'm unblocked now.
hi
Posting from the iPhone app.
Maybe I'm unblocked now.
Why, hello...
Long time no see.
How's my baby doing?
Contributing to Open Source projects
Prior to joining Google I always joked that Google was the black hole that swallowed up open source programmers. I'd see awesome, productive hackers join Google and then hear little to nothing from them afterwards. When I joined I decided I'd solve this mystery and post about it but it's been over 2.5 years and I've been busy and somewhat forgot. Fortunately a discussion at work last week reminded me of this again, and a bunch of us got to talking about the phenomenon.
Just as there are rarely absolutes in anything, there are no absolutes about open source programmers' activities after joining Google. The main reasons for them sometimes disappearing, as far as I can tell, are:
Realtime LiveJournal -> Buzz
If you've seen all my "test" posts over the past few days, you probably knew I was up to something.
Indeed....
If you add your LiveJournal to your Google Profile (and your LJ links to your Google Profile and is crawled), and then you "Connect" your LJ to your Google Buzz account by adding it as a connected site, all your LJ posts flow into Buzz in 1-2 seconds, using PubSubHubbub.
And hopefully LiveJournal will support the Salmon Protocol so comments left in Buzz will flow back to LiveJournal, and vice-versa. But that's the future.
Much love to Brett Slatkin, the Reader team, Brian Stoler and the Buzz team, Sebastian Kanthak, John Panzer, and others who made all this work. Huge team effort, but in the end I think open, decentralized protocols will win and are the future.
Thirty.
I'm 30 today. Happy Birthday to me! :)
Come party tonight if you're around SF: http://crush3r.com/page/ytziecxddo
Doing Hos is Hard Work
Etch-a-Sketch doesn't involve much hill climbing. GPS-a-Sketch in San Francisco does, however:
Halloween Costume: Where's Waldo?
This year's costume, with whatever_art:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bradley.j.fitzpatrick/Misc#5398929204952872962
I tried to get http://bit.ly/whereswaldo but it was already taken (and awesome!), so I got http://bit.ly/whereswaldo2 so people might discover the awesome version by mucking with the URL. Time to run my own URL shortener... don't trust any of them.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!