flickr.pandas.getPhotos is, as Kellan points out, “quirky” but awesome. It is essentially a firehose (three firehoses, actually) of realtime Flickr data updated every 60 seconds (not every 60000 seconds as the documentation seems to indicate). That means the “ling ling” firehose, for example, exposes about 172,000 photos per day. I’m still experimenting with the data. [...]

Last week I completed the move of a web site hosted on a physical server to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. The experience was educational to say the least and so far I’m pretty happy with things. I’ll post a follow-up after I’ve had a few more weeks of experience with it. In the meantime, [...]

I just wrote a post on BigHugeLabs.com about how I’ve had 1,000,000 unique visitors over the past 30 days. That’s a million individual people. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away. Until the internet came along and changed everything, the only way for a person to reach a million people [...]

So, that app I wrote, Writer (“The Internet Typewriter”), was published today by the CNET staff at Download.com. Very cool. I’m now one step closer to taking over the world: Create awesome web app. Get published at Download.com. ? Profit! If only I could figure out step three.

Demo Girl put together a most excellent screencast yesterday of a free service I created last year called Writer: the internet typewriter. The screencast is a great intro to Writer and its features. Thanks, Demo Girl!

I’m just Mr. Software lately. Every morning my kids ask me about the weather so they can get dressed. This is my first attempt at building a simplified weather forecast page for them. It’s the weather report for today and tomorrow in a kid-friendly format. Once you’ve got it bookmarked, your kids are just one-click [...]

I’ve just rolled out an API for the Big Huge Thesaurus. Need synonyms? Give the free API a try.

I’ve been a fan of The Art of War—the famous Chinese military treatise written in the 6th century B.C.—for a long time. Particularly, the Lionel Giles translation which was originally published in 1910 and is now in the public domain (and in digital e-book form thanks to Project Gutenberg). I’ve been wanting to do a [...]