January 2011
2 posts
Making Meetup: Real-life Meetups Deserve Real-time... →
makingmeetup:
First things first, open a linux or mac terminal and tap into the RSVPs stream: curl http://stream.meetup.com/2/rsvps What you’re seeing now is each RSVP to a public Meetup group as we receive it. When a user clicks an RSVP button or an application calls the RSVP method, the server handling the…
Best. Gift. Ever.
Last night, Erin and I opened presents that had arrived in the mail from my parents. One of them was a folded, unassuming manilla envelope, and inside was another folded manilla envelope. I unfolded the inner envelope to reveal a 5x5 floppy disk which, at first, confounded me. Looking at its label I immediately recognized my mother’s handwriting; it identified the disk as...