I'm Paul Bissex. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. Started my career doing graphic design for newspapers and magazines in the '90s. Then wrote tech commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and others you never heard of. Then I built operations software at a photography school. Then I helped big media serve 40 million pages a day. Then I worked on a translation services API doing millions of dollars of business. Now I'm building the core platform of a global startup accelerator. Feel free to email me.
I co-wrote "Python Web Development with Django". It was the first book to cover the long-awaited Django 1.0. Published by Addison-Wesley and still in print!
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At least 237132 pieces of comment spam killed since 2008, mostly via Akismet.
Aesthetics and computation
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
art
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design
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engineering
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f2f
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programming
2 comments
The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
apple
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design
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hardware
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interface
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iphone
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mobile
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rants
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the well
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vcs
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writing
2 comments
iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
adobe
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apple
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design
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hardware
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iphone
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mobile
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programming
Color names in JSON format
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
design
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web development
The anti-desktop movement
Friday, March 16th, 2007
design
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interface
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unix
5 comments
Kerning DreamHost
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
design
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fun
1 comment
Widescreen as Tallscreen
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
design
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hardware
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os x
2 comments
Software for determining image similarity?
Friday, September 15th, 2006
design
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fun
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programming
5 comments
Technology wanted: FFE
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
design
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fun
4 comments
Why the python.org redesign is good
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
design
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python
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rants
Python.org redesign launches
Monday, March 6th, 2006
design
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python
5 comments
Baby steps with Ajax
Monday, February 27th, 2006
ajax
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design
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site
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web development
4 comments
Sort tables with sorttable.js
Monday, February 20th, 2006
ajax
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design
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javascript
18 comments
The Million Beta Homepage
Monday, February 6th, 2006
design
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fun
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web development
Digg vs. Reddit vs. Me
Monday, February 6th, 2006
design
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rants
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tips
4 comments
The Blue Sky anti-massacree movement
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
design
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fun
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games
Palm TX: First Impressions
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
design
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hardware
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palm
Evolving a new keyboard
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
design
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fun
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hardware
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programming
Big. Green. Similar.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
design
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fun
Tantek on CSS hacks
Monday, November 28th, 2005
css
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design
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web development
1 comment
Web 2.0 imitates satire
Monday, November 21st, 2005
design
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fun
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the well
Beware of the "just"
Monday, November 21st, 2005
design
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tips
SourceForge prettifying
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
design
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open source
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sourceforge
1 comment
Dear Section508.gov webmaster
Monday, November 14th, 2005
design
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fun
2 comments
Blog Usability Showdown: Me vs. Jakob Nielsen
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
blogs
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design
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rants
1 comment
sIFR: Smart Flash typography
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
design
A List Apart 4.0
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
cms
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css
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design
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rails
NetGrowler
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
design
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os x
Open Laszlo
Friday, August 5th, 2005
design
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java
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oscon
The support experience
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
adobe
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design
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rants
261-character git one-liner of the day
How things get better after you screw up at work
How I became a software engineer, 8-bit version
My 100x ROI as accidental domain speculator
Jacinto
Neo4J and Graph Databases
798 days ago
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How to install the open source application Darktable on OS X
1803 days ago
SPAMMER WHOSE COMMENT GENERATOR IS BROKEN
How to install the open source application Darktable on OS X
1814 days ago
Alfred Nutile
Switching from OS X to Ubuntu
1855 days ago
Spammer
The story of dpaste.com 2.0
2033 days ago
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