Viewing profile — tomspeak

Hey, I made the site, didn't realise people actually used it. https://github.com/tomspeak/quiet-hacker-news -- the source is here, you could host your own version or run it locally…

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace has been the most impactful, but due to the length of the book it's hard for others to compete on the impact-per-page metric. I wrote about it…

Also very interested in this, we've had issues with dealing with reconciling external copy and pasting.

I use Ping [0], never used an alternative so not sure how it compares on features, but it has everything I need: uptime alerts, header & body requests. All packaged in a nice inter…

This resonates with me. Although I did not get into programming for money, I have come to hold the belief that I could make significantly more money as a programmer in a non-progra…

This is fascinating stuff — every time I use my oyster card I have wondered what it is doing behind the scenes. Do you know of any write ups about TFL's infrastructure/processes? W…