History Boxes
Aaron Straup Cope
The Guardian, January 16 2009

Hi, my name is Aaron

Wax on, wax off

The Mirror Project

The Bubble

Real estate (on the web)

tcpdump is my API

Flickr

What have I learned?

Social means change

engineering threatens to quit launch GOTO 10
changes
Features are not “products”
time

Data, not answers

The “Who Cares” Principle

FL(ENG/OPS)
MARSHMALLOW!!!
BACON!!!

JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Python
Bash C++

Community
management
JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Python
Bash C++
No, really

uploadr
browser API browser
www
www www
memcached squid
storage
mysql search
geo
“feeders” image processing
offline offline offline offline offline
tasks tasks tasks tasks tasks

Client
Application
Caching
Caching
Data Data
“Near Future”

Things not shown

Deploy tools

Kill switches

The Fear

An unfortunate truth

“The worst part about PHP
is that itʼs often the right
tool for the job.”

Nubby bits

Black boxes

shake before use
“Reverse geocoding”

the
“mastro”
Kill me now

Why am I telling you this?

News is social software

Communities of authority

10:15:10 PM Aaron Straup Cope: tomorrow, I will make
API methods
10:15:39 PM Paul Hammond: we should make something
on the site instead
10:15:46 PM Paul Hammond: api methods are cheating
10:16:13 PM Aaron Straup Cope: api methods are
potentialities for the site
Nubby bits

The shape of content

“Histories of movement...”

“...that constitute place.”

Interpretation (client)
Public API (application)
Pattern Matching (caching)
Editorial (data)
Reporting (near future)
Quite possibly nonsense

Feeding the story

Thank you

http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2920083506
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yashh/2834617697/
http://www.aaronland.net/basementboy/
http://www.mirrorproject.com
http://www.mirrorproject.com/by/artboy
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2413601449/
http://www.aaronland.info/nytimes/related/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincollins/446759634/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/330500781
features are not “products”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norby/407620068/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atc/103174228/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3190491518/
how it works
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3233781401/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/328341800/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/192184337/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafer/2534333174/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/73244196/
choose your poison
http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/370024049/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3178465288/
http://www.aaronland.info/talks/#where08
the mastro
why am I telling you this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2362170408/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellan/2883459596/
my dinner with hamster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3180283176/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3171285346/
http://rocketstrikes.iamnear.net/
quite possibly bullshit, really
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2368376951/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/381894147/