There are 845 million active users on facebook. There are 500 million twitter accounts. There are 100 million users on Google+. Of all those people only one is Swizec. Three other profiles do show up when searching for “Swizec”, but they don’t have the account name registered. Nor the domain name. In Slovenia, there are [...]
On Thursday I published my most popular post to date Why programmers work at night. After writing I was certain it wasn’t that interesting, sure it might be HN frontpage worthy – it never got there – but other than that I felt it wasn’t a very informative post, just musings of a hacker who has [...]
Ever since I started using twitter people have been accusing me that I talk too much. In the early days pretty much everyone told me this whenever we would meet in person, as more and more slovenians poured onto twitter and the whole thing has become a bit more mainstream it’s not that big a [...]
Sunday saw the eighth TEDxevent in Ljubljana and through immense luck I was able to attend despite forgetting to reserve a ticket. Twitter is kind of cool like that, you ask if there’s any way to sneak into a sold out event happening the next day, somebody says they don’t need their ticket and then [...]
Yesterday was Webcamp time again and the creme de la creme of the Slovenia web scene gathered to bang chests and feel awesome. Or … well … a bunch of geeks who had nothing better to do on a Saturday. There were a bunch of great talks by some marvelous people and I especially liked [...]
Just over a month ago I went on an internet diet that would practically cut me off the world as I know it. The deal was no internet except for an hour every evening, or when it was absolutely necessary for reasons of work or school. A week ago that diet ended. It is no [...]
Knowing how many readers a blog gets is pretty important for any blog writer. We like to pretend it doesn’t even matter, put on a face of “Oh well, I’m just writing this for myself, you know, to get the word out, I don’t really care if anyone reads it” What a bunch of hipsters! [...]
Lately we have seen a plague of Next Better Widget ™ startups and bright minds all over the world solving frivolous problems that ultimately contribute nothing to the betterment of humanity as a whole. There are a bunch of people out there right now solving #firstworldproblems. A waste of talent! By being in the same [...]
Lately I’ve been spending my evenings and nights working on a super secret and above awesome project that I will talk about … soon, when it’s a bit more ready. tl; dr -> github link to source That project deals mostly with Twitter and harnessing url’s from the stream. As anyone who’s sniffed at Twitter [...]
Image via CrunchBase Lately there has been raging debate in the blogosphere (is that still a word?) around whether RSS is dead or not and the fact that it’s apparently been dying ever since it was first conceived in 1999 or thereabouts. Arguments range all the way from the fact that it is useless in [...]
