Congrations to our favourite* Y Combinator startup, Reddit for breaking the world record for the largest Secret Santa.
* Ok, it’s really more of a tie with Dropbox and EtherPad… oh and the sixty one and Xobni‘s pretty cool too.
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December 16, 2009
December 4, 2009
Get excited and make things
A couple of days ago I got an email asking for a dataset I generated last year (not only am I an occasional blogger, but a practising statistician 
. It feels so good to make things: decks, data, art, programs, that I’m surpised more people don’t make more things more often.
Kudos to Matt Jones (via Joey) for the great play on a British WWII meme.
You’re on the internet so you have a computer and the ability to read and write. Make something. Then make something else. Repeat until awesome.
(Side note, we got some good demos during the hiring process. Almost everyone with a demo ended up in my wish-we-could-hire-more-people pile.)
October 29, 2009
Upcoming Schwag
We’re still finalizing the design (and trying to find more attractive models cough cough), but any day now we’ll be printing off a run of t-shirts for our newest product.
We’re really excited about this one, so expect me to trickle out a little information over the next few months before it’s officially announced.
July 8, 2009
Dave loves programming help
Twice in one day people have now asked me for advice on debugging tools, so I want to give a quick shout-out to two of my favourite tools, Stack Overflow and Fiddler:
Stack Overflow is the brainchild of programmer cum blogger-divas Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood that makes programming questions easy and rewarding to answer. Their fanatical dedication to usabilty and gamelike scoring system quickly made it the place to ask software development questions. You can see my score (133) reflects how rarely I’ve been able to ask questions that weren’t already available. Best use: whenever anyone tells me something is impossible, I ask Stack Overflow.
Fiddler 2 is transitioning from Microsoft employee side project to free Microsoft product that fits in the stack between a browser (or other program that communicates over HTTP) and lets you see (and muck around with the communication). It’s an essential part of my standard security screening, but it’s also helpful for debugging.
July 2, 2009
Firefox 3.5 is out
I normally pride myself on not being cutting edge — it helps me communicate with our many customers who don’t twitter — but I upgraded to Firefox 3.5 the day it came out.
Why? Because they fixed the two things I care about:
- Speed: faster
- Memory footprint: fewer memory leaks == smaller footprint
At GiantGoat we tend to use Firefox as our primary browser — one of us has gone so far as to call it sexy. I keep wanting to love Chrome‘s slick design, but I can’t live without 2 Firefox plugins:
- AdBlock Plus which makes the web bearable. I’ve re-enabled a few ad servers (Google ads),
- Firebug which makes my websites easier to debug (I also like the error reporting in Firefox)
Conclusion: Dave loves Firefox.
