Austin Smith

Monday, May 7th

8:23pm Yes. RT @ryanvailbrown: Reading this made me so happy/sad, it's so true/scary: "Why Publishers Don't Like Apps" http://t.co/ALJQaqdp

Sunday, April 15th

1:19pm Today in Des Moines is like the second act of Twister, where the main actors brunch while everyone else cleans up.

12:21am Hard to see, but this is a very snapped phone pole. http://t.co/WRI6tBty

Friday, April 6th

2:04am Living on the edge: pushing code as your train is about to enter a tunnel and praying that the commit hits before you lose service.

Saturday, March 31st

11:00pm Very cool. Just threw a large site's worth of traffic at @pantheon_drupal, and it didn't blink.

10:04pm Must launch this site before April Fool's day.

Friday, March 30th

5:26pm @gillianmae wow, he's gotten pretty good at photoshop!

Tuesday, March 27th

3:02pm @coreydowning I think it's more like, some companies are disasters, and the programmers who pass through revolving doors are tourists.

12:56pm 10% of software development is disaster tourism.

Sunday, March 25th

11:16pm @tmcgev they've basically just been playing set design since season three. And to pleasant effect, but still.

Saturday, March 24th

12:56am @glichfield airlines' whole IT infrastructure is already punishing passengers do efficiently, I'd never make a dent.

Friday, March 23rd

10:46pm @tmplunkett I like Hipmunk, but I love @kayak, and their trips feature is so great I feel like I owe them their spiff on my flights.

10:42pm I think @delta heard me disrespect their UX, and intentionally broke the e-cert redemption process, thereby charging me full price.

10:25pm It's a testament to their UX that I search with @kayak even though I will only fly @delta

Tuesday, March 13th

2:06pm Use MacPorts mysql5 for local dev? Make sure you have log-bin set to off. I just freed 74G of disk space.

Sunday, February 26th

9:22pm @smachiz @tzojeff @potatomaster RFO: sched maint on cisco routers, reboot caused BGP fail. Means both servers are in same subnet. Ugly.

4:52am Am I crazy, or is it utterly stupid to put both your name servers in the same POP?

Saturday, February 25th

5:44pm @xmatt wait I thought he hated LA

Friday, February 24th

3:08pm I think it's time for me to write a Drupal book: Patterns of Enterprise Drupal Nightmares

Monday, February 20th

3:45am Crap. http://t.co/l3RIR2KA uses PHP 5.3 sweet anonymous functions, but I've thus far 5.3 it due to Drupal 6. Overnight port upgrade!

Wednesday, February 8th

11:45pm Hey, uh, my Netflix account was compromised. Huh. What would one do with that?

Monday, February 6th

10:04pm Coconut sparkling water. Surprisingly good.

11:31am At least he seems to like the website? http://t.co/9vwHXQWD

Friday, February 3rd

5:38pm @merlinofchaos if that were the worst of it, I'd be thrilled. I'm making a plugin for it.

5:33pm Indesign, reveal your mysteries.

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

5:03pm @mrw sent you the details. tl;dr for others is that Asterisk is well worth it but kind of a pain to set up.

4:53pm @mrw we have self-hosted with an office server, multiple extensions, conference lines. Has saved us lots.

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

11:46am Welcome to FAO Schwartz, crazy Christmas death trap.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

11:25pm @marktheunissen yeah, he's actually sound asleep in that photo. Slept that way for fifteen minutes.

10:40pm @xmatt has discovered a new way to use his computer. http://t.co/zSgo5BpK

Hi! I'm Austin Smith, a programmer. I want to build software that solves real problems. I like cooking, eating, reading, and writing.

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