Tinkering Before Millions (VIDEO)
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A talk I gave at the Peninsula Linux Users' Group1 about the history of PBworks....
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TERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator
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TERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator Originally uploaded by dweekly...
Continue readingPerill de Caigudes? Or Breakdancing?
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Perill de Caigudes? Or Breakdancing? Originally uploaded by dweekly...
Continue readingL0K8 – A Simple Location Service For Twitter
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This weekend I banged out a very simple location service called L0K8. It consists of a small 1.1MB Windows download. You install & run, it pops up a web page, you give it your twitter username & password, and now as you move from place to place your...
Continue readingEssence of Life
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Who am I?...
Continue readingBoingo Wireless: Astoundingly Confident & Poor
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When I was stuck in Boston's Logan International Airport for a few hours waiting for a flight, I decided I ought to get some work done; I popped open my laptop to see if I could spot a free network. Signed onto "loganwifi" and got a pa...
Continue readingThoughts on Architecture
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written during an april 2008 trip to boston...
Continue readingMapping the Internet
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With only about 50% of PBwiki's traffic coming from North America and with preliminary benchmarks showing 3+ second page load times in Paris, I've been thinking a bit about how to make the PBwiki experience snappy for people around the worl...
Continue readingOn Free Speech
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A post of mine from a recent email thread on why a co-op should continue to host a server with arguably distasteful but legal content:...
Continue readingDavid’s Difficult Math Question
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In honor of pi day1 3/14&8230;...
Continue readingMildly Controversial Thoughts for Further Exploration
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The singularity is past. We're already living in a collective consciousness with behaviors exceeding the capacity of any human or machine to understand, because that collective has intelligence exceeding our own by definition....
Continue readingMission Statement
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Who am I?...
Continue readingBeer Tasting Notes
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On September 22nd, 2007, I got together with several of my friends Eve Phillips, Jocelyn Joy Berl, Travis Kalanick, Nathan Schmidt, and Alan Keefer and with the inspiration of my brother Chris Weekly1 we tasted a number of beers and rated them, along...
Continue readingGluing David Together Again
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Help. My identity has been spread too thin....
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The Simplest Thing (VIDEO)
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In this talk for STIRR1 FounderHacks, I emphasize that founders should have their product do the simplest thing possible and let their users guide but not design! their product....
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Why I’m Not Going to Landmark
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> Landmark is a popular and profitable program in the US that claims to teach people how to better master themselves and their perceptions of the world. A number of my friends have attended or have considered attending at one point or another. I expl...
Continue readingSpecism: A Moral Framework
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Every person and every animal has built in a desire to survive and to better themselves. Upon this self-centric axiom systems such as Objectivism1 are built. Such systems lack something central to the human experience &8211; desire for the direct bet...
Continue readingThe Echo Chamber
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> Much of the "blogosphere" seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology including the word "blogosphere", cult leaders, conferences, and memes. Why? Is this healthy?\...
Continue readingPlease Mock Me
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I am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago. A natural question has gone unasked: how many, if any, of those protesting have actuall...
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My Experience With Vonage (a.k.a. Why Vonage Sucks)
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About half a year ago, I decided to go sign up for a Vonage account. This was mainly because I found myself needing to send faxes quite a bit, and it didn't seem too expensive. So I signed up....
Continue readingConsumption
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a very rambling and awfully incoherent saturday writing, done without the benefit of breakfast, or even lunch....
Continue readingwork isnt wolf In a wood will not escape
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I had a weird experience today chatting with a hacker on ICQ who had taken over my friend's account. The conversation's too weird to have made up:...
Continue readingServer Issues (2005)
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Some of you may have noticed that david.weekly.org was down last week for several days. Email to me bounced and there was general havoc in my online life. What happened? Did I get slashdotted? No....
Continue readingBypassing Ad Blocking
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This article describes modern ad-blocking technique, their effectiveness, and how advertisers are likely to work around them....
Continue readingThe PS3 & Blu-Ray
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The PS3 will be significant for Blu-Ray. And vice versa....
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