So Scott Kveton has been putting together a planet aggregator for OpenID the past few days and wanted a feed of OpenID post from my blog. LJ didn't have a feature to provide a RSS/Atom feed of a tag view, so I started spreading around my own little bounty to the various LJ developers. burr86 has ended up winning (http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/4352132.html) in far fewer lines than anyone guessed. I guessed 50 lines (so $4 per line) and crucially guessed 20 lines, though Abe did it in 2 lines of code.

In other news, went to anildash's going away party (and birthday party for his wife) last night and then over to Beau's tonight for a homemade sushi party; both were awesome!

Headed to Portland on Monday with groundup for an OpenID/SAML meeting, Mashpit: OpenID, and then Josh (groundup) and I are finalizing selling the business we started a few years ago.

[ljcom] r2761: Moving on to greener pastures.
Committer: opiummmm (jproulx)
Moving on to greener pastures.

Or, in true LJ Drama form: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool,
fuck you, I'm out".

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http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/3321075.html

I support the LiveJournal.com Abuse and Support Teams. I support the volunteers and employees who make it possible. I support them because I respect their ability, their integrity, and their willingness to wade through tons of crap in order to make LJ a better place to be and for putting up with stuff that no one else wants to.

It amazes me that there can be such a dedicated team of volunteers who do this work for no pay, with little acknowledgement from Six Apart, and with tools that are outdated. I apologize to all of them for taking their work for granted at times and not being able to make the time to develop the features that would make their thankless jobs easier when I worked as a LJ developer.

Thank you, all of you!

I'm exhausted, been at the Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Was a fucking awesome space to have a conference, though didn't get a chance to actually look at the exhibits.

Interesting stuff going on with DIX which started out as Sxip 2.0 as an IETF effort, though really changed a good deal lately. They're now talking about using Yadis for service discovery, the Sxip 2.0 authentication (which is loosely based upon OpenID and then enhanced a good deal), and then they're talking about using a very light-weight SAML profile for profile exchange. It all sounds good, though I'm reserving full judgement until I see the actual spec which makes these changes. A little worried about how light they actually can make SAML, though think Dick and John are sincerely doing everything they can to make this all work.

Need to register for a motorcycle class with hachi. Still want to get one since an hour commute sucks. Figure I'll move somewhere like Sunnyvale at some point. Maybe split a place with jproulx and iseebi if they stick around in the area. So many dope houses for not a lot of money down there!

Feels like I should write something about ads on LJ, but I think a lot of other people have already said what I'd say. I understand the reasoning for the Sponsored+ level and I think people want to do cool innovative things, but that we fell short of that for the initial release. So hopefully they will improve the level in the future and actually give free users a real reason to switch to it with an innovative experience that they can't get anywhere else on the web. In the meantime, it is interesting to read no_lj_ads. Also hoping that they follow up on the "whoops" from Brad about the TOS change.

TV now, sleep tonight, paper tomorrow, maybe Guitar Hero with brad and crucially Friday night, boat dive with whitaker on Sunday, and then work on Monday! Woot!

So I guess its all finalized, signed the paper yesterday, and am no longer an employee of Six Apart. Been almost three years since I started working for Brad as a senior in high school. Been a really interesting few years, learned a good deal, met a lot of awesome people, and had a great time. Decided it is however time to move on for an opportunity where I'll be able to learn a good deal of new stuff and I'm overdue for a change of pace.

Taking next week off, attending the Internet Identity Workshop next Monday through Wednesday. Then figure two days of chillaxin' before I start at VeriSign the following Monday. The job is in Mountain View on working for their Advanced Products and Research Group within their Information Services group that handles .com/.net registration, real time publishing, digital brand management services, and intelligent supply chain. Is a small group, paired with a strategy team, that thinks 1-3 years in the future and is described as the feeling of a startup with the resources of a 5000+ person company. Works only on prototypes and I'll get to do a wide variety of things. Also get about 25% travel for business development, partnerships, and implementations. A bit of sys admin work is also thrown in the mix for their "labs" network. Should allow me to learn about all sorts of different things, have fun, and see what it is like working for a large company. So I'm excited!

Went to technopatra's party last night at her place with Joey and Henry. Had a good time, and then Joey and I went over to Berkeley to meet up with Artur and Mischa and join a Werewolf game. Good games and I managed to stay in until the end in both games that I played, lost the first time as a villager though one the second as a Werewolf with Mischa. Got home, slept, and now a BBQ this afternoon!

Perma mounting the sixaphone with hachi!

Went to the Maker Faire this morning with brad and crucially. Six Apart had a booth there put together by the awesome ljkrissy. People were playing SegWay polo which was pretty dope and we hung out with Jacob Applebaum (ioerror) for a bit. The sixaphone was there, though rebranded as the makerphone. All in all fun times were had!

Played a few hours of Guitar Hero with revmischa last night that helped take my mind off of other stuff. Life has been exhausting, rewarding, stressful, and tiresome this past week so a good weekend of not doing anything has been nice thus far.

When we got in, LJ was not happy at all.


Now it is a bit happier, though still not happy.

So I'm working on a new feature for LJ and browser testing it right now. Decided to play with it in Opera on Ubuntu to make sure it works since I know there are LJ users that use Opera; I've spoken to some in the past via support. Download the .deb package for Ubuntu, cool they have them now, and install it. Can't run it as my user since when they packaged it they didn't give others the read bit for the executable and it is owned by root.root. Fix that and try to run it and get:

david@davedev:~$ opera
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Segmentation fault

So to LJ Opera users, tell Opera that they are being lame! I have no problem testing in their browser as well, but will not go out of my way to fix their problems. It is just frustrating...

Meeting!

So my sleep schedule the past two weeks has been severely fucked. Not sure why. Then again napping for two hours at like 7 today most likely didn't help. So awake and bored. Went through past 100ish entries in my journal, until "earlier" link died, and made a bunch of stuff public. We'll see how long that lasts before I get pissed at stupid people again.

I like working on fun projects even at home. Too bad not many things are just hacking like this was.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/changelog/2375673.html

Webzine seems fairly dead today compared to yesterday. Thinking I may take off pretty soon. Need to do laundry and homework when I get home today though. Not looking forward to doing either. Slept like 14 hours last night and still tired. Scuba class next weekend which should kick ass. Also need to do "homework" for that. Need to deal with getting a hotel down there. Think I need to get out of the city every weekend and do something. This weekend hasn't been boring, but not stimulating either. Wish Monterey wasn't so damn far away or there was diving closer. Maybe I'll go for a nice drive this afternoon, except traffic seems sucky. Bleh.

Guess I should post something, the school directory is now live. Been working on it with Junior and others the past few weeks, although it really was designed to be a quick feature. Haivng a post-mortem in my head, although some of the issues we ran into could be worth getting down at least in an email. All in all, excited it is launched, annoyed and embarrassed about some of the issues it had.

60's party

So in a continuation post of when I was saying people bitching about public entries in RSS feeds can blow me, I extend this to people bitching about Google's BlogSearch. Public fucking means public, aight!

Pretty pimpin' meme http://rezendi.zigamorph.net/friendsmap.htm?userName=daveman692

bah, Slashdot readers are lame. They posted a story about OpenID consumer/server being live on LJ and other sites. All the commenters are too busy whacking off to actually read any links or take the time to figure out what something is before commenting. This thus leaves us with a lot of people all talking about something they know nothing about. lame++