May 2011
2 posts
Rapid prototyping w/ front-end JS & Mongo
My stealth-ish startup, Boundless Learning, is building some very cool products, on top of some very cool technologies, and while the majority of our value will be user-facing, there is a fair chunk of interesting back-office systems that we’ve developed to support our bigger mission.
It’s important that we are able to rapidly produce & adjust those back-office systems, so that...
Proxlet, Twitter's barometer
Proxlet has been one of my more interesting projects. (It solves an acute Twitter pain, it allows you to mute noisy users/apps)
One thing I’ve learned is that on any given day, the usage/user-ratings for Proxlet very directly reflect the at-the-time quality of the Twitter API service. Twitter chokes up, folks perceive the middle-man-Proxlet as the issue, numbers go down. Twitter operates...