Alex Payne
Alex Payne is an engineer at Twitter, a social network of individuals sharing short status updates via the web, SMS, IM, and an extremely popular API. Since taking on the support and development of Twitter’s API, the service has grown to hundreds of millions of requests per day. Alex’s background is in web application development and information security, and his code has powered mission-critical operations, political campaigns, and non-profit initiatives. Alex lives and works in San Francisco.
Talks Alex Is Giving
Twitter Stream:
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Don't Assume You'll Be Voted For
--Today, I've seen a number of my pro-Obama friends linking to statistics and reports that Obama has the election in the bag. This is dangerous...
An Open Reminder To Myself
--A journalist's output is journalism. A critic's output is criticism. A programmer's output should be programs. I am a programmer who w...
Lessons In Being Edited
--Today, I learned something useful the hard way. Which is, incidentally, pretty much the way I learn everything. A couple months back I was invited...
I'm Writing A Book
--At this year's Foo Camp I had a chance to talk to O'Reilly editor Mike Loukides about my interests in emerging programming languages, particularly ...
On The Flight to Old Text Editors
--It's lately become vogue in the circle of programmers I follow to discontinue use of IDEs and modern text editors like TextMate in favor of Vim and...
Treating Developers Right
--I've had the idea for a quotation-capturing application for the Mac for some time. It's been towards the top of my list of side-projects...
Bookmarks:
Wiffr
"a tool that would easily figure out what browser customers were running"
Using Scala Implicits to Replace Mindless Delegation
JVSTM - Java Versioned Software Transactional Memory
"a Java library that implements our approach to Software Transactional Memories"
Melt Mail
Malo
"Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites."
It Died
"Keeping track of hosted services as they lay dying." Fucked Company for the Cloud Age, I guess.
Alex's Network
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Emily Chang (mutual) friend |
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heather gilmour (mutual) want-to-meet |
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Michal Migurski fan |
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kellan (mutual) friend |
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Comments
Hey Alex,
I'd love to get your input on some of the stuff we are hoping to do. I work for World Vision's Acting on AIDS, a college advocacy program connected to a large international relief and development organization. We're on more than 200 college campuses and looking at how we can better leverage that through networks like Facebook.
It would be nice to connect during or after the expo. My cell is 206-369-3311.
James
Hi Alex, let's make some time to talk during Web 2.0. Let me know what times you're free.
--Heather