Archive for 2006-12-29
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This blog is written by Peter Harkins, a web developer and entrepreneur in Chicago. The recurring themes on this blog include programming minutia, the ways small design changes influence user behavior, and game design. Feel free to contact me or check out some code on GitHub.
In my career, I've re-engineered the .pro domain, gate-crashed a stealth startup, built one of the most popular Wordpress plugins, covered dozens of stories for the Washington Post on the web, and defeated the original Super Mario Kart.
If you play any tabletop games (like D&D, Magic, and Settlers), visit my site NearbyGamers to find folks to game with.
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- RT @bwilken: OH: Person1: I like jimmy johns because it is cost effective. Person2: So is anorexia.
- I want to go there. http://t.co/lNLQhRme
- I play one game of Civilzation: Revolution and I'm dreaming about civ. Only played the first, and that >15y ago...
- Video of Grace Hopper (yes, the) showing off a nanosecond: http://t.co/TbbO2UAP
- The only way to buy something on Etsy and not have a public profile is to buy it and then delete your account.
- Watch out, if you buy anything on an @Etsy store you're going to get a public profile + email and postal spam.
- Nice little css hack for hiding text: http://t.co/e2VueGo0
- "Too bad your language doesn't have macros or you could add it." "Thank God my language doesn't have macros, so someone else can't add it."