Project: RSS

My first project, which I will be starting in about a week, will be a web-based RSS/ATOM feed aggregator with the following properties:

It will store a complete archive of every item it sees.
Queries of the first ~50 items of each feed will be fast and take constant time.
The interface will be responsive as possible, despite [...]

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More about Twitter

Here’s an article that touches on the effect of heightened social awareness that twitter brings (like the awareness of the location of one’s limbs).

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Setting up a wireless connection in Debian

I thought that it would be automatic and all, but it wasn’t. The most frustrating thing was trying to find any official documentation (howtos, faqs, etc.). Most of the existing pages haven’t been updated since 2003, but the biggest problem is the number of drivers and packages developed over the years (linux-wlan, linux wireless extensions, [...]

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Twitter’s architecture

Rolling on Rails: Under the Hood at Twitter – talks about the “scramble to scale” and the importance of thought out database schemas and queries.
In order to scale your service, it is usually not necessary to change the entire framework. Profiling your code and queries can lead to small incremental changes that solve major bottlenecks [...]

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