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!
Built using Django, served with gunicorn and nginx. The database is SQLite. Hosted on a FreeBSD VPS at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet.
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At least 237132 pieces of comment spam killed since 2008, mostly via Akismet.
Chess via iPod
Monday, May 11th, 2009
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iPod touch: holding steady
Friday, October 17th, 2008
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
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iPhone hacking
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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What is the iPhone running, really?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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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
ANOTHER SPAMMER WITH BROKEN SOFTWARE
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
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Switching from OS X to Ubuntu
1855 days ago
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The story of dpaste.com 2.0
2033 days ago
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