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dcortesi com dcortesi com archive dcortesi com welcome to the archive of dcortesi com it was originally constructed in 2002 modeled after jeremy zawodny s blog this site has been through many iterations over the years php wordpress jekyll hugo check out the archive to see all posts and thanks for stopping by for sale tweetstats com four years and one month ago on january 27 2008 i released a cool little weekend project into the wild known as tweetstats com born out of a simple perl script that helped me visualize how i had started to use twitter i found that there were a lot of people out there that also wanted to see how they used twitter and who they were talking to the site took off and i found myself spending all waking and non working hours tweaking it and thinking about other cool things i could do better february 27 2012 2 min reclaiming my twitter sms notifications over the past four years of being on twitter i ve slowly turned on sms notifications for people that i wanted to keep up to date on this worked great when i had a few people that occasionally tweeted i could see what they were up to in a passive manner and reply if i wanted to unfortunately as this list grew so did the uselessness of text notifications on my phone at one point in the past year i turned off vibrate notifications for sms messages unfortunately this meant that while my phone wasn t vibrating every other minute from twitter notifications it also meant that my phone wasn t vibrating when friends would try to reach me via sms june 14 2011 2 min mongo seattle real time analytics slides i had the pleasure of speaking at mongo seattle a few weeks back on how i use mongodb for real time data collection and analytics the presentation ended up being a comparison of how i previously built tweetstats on top of mysql and the terrible sql queries that still power it to this day to how i would build it if i were using mongodb i also gave a couple use cases of how i ve used mongodb to power a game based link shortener as well as my current primary focus rowfeeder i ve you d like a walk through of mongodb s atomic incrementors and some map reduce goodness check out the slides below september 19 2010 1 min life running a startup 1 million miles per hour live life if there s one motto i can hope to live by it s those simple two words just under 2 years ago i quit my comfy security consulting job to do my own thing since then i ve started two companies and even though every day brings a new challenge i couldn t be happier running a startup or any company is no easy task you are more so than ever before married to your work if you fail your company fails and you can t sprint fast enough to keep up with all the demands and your personal life will suffer relationships will be strained nights out with friends will be missed if you re not working on your startup you re thinking about your startup june 8 2010 2 min i love you mom dear mom i can t even remember the first time you were there for me but i know you were before anybody else i got an email tonight that brought tears to my eyes it was the simplest but best email ever it said paraphrased dear damon i love you thank you for sharing your life online so i can follow along but really how much does that suck should my mother really have to follow along in my life based on the status updates i post to my social network shouldn t she know everything already i feel bad because i only call once every few weeks because you my mother have to live my life online only through the details i provide this is not fair may 20 2010 2 min i think i found my passion life it s an interesting journey and as my friend joecascio mentioned today life is what happens while you re making plans i ve rarely been one to make plans i prefer to live in the moment and enjoy life as it happens yes i do make some plans but i try to remain open and accepting of the curve balls we receive on a daily basis i feel the best we can do is enjoy life and react to the different hands we get dealt my father instilled this belief in me and i ve talked about his approach to attitude before i really cannot thank my father enough for embedding within me the right attitude necessary to tackle life february 17 2010 4 min this is why i love twitter this is a picture of me from 12 years ago explaining to my independent studies program advisor how my friend jasper speicher and i were going to build a robot that could automatically navigate it s environment using infrared sensors and if we were lucky even climb stairs the brains of this device were going to be a programmable microcontroller called the basic stamp february 3 2010 2 min announcing a new seattle startup untitled startup i ve been working on this for a while but figured i should announce it here i m starting a new company to continue my hobby of building twitter tools it s going to be a social media startup and we ll be building tools for social media professionals we ve already built one in a weekend project that we re calling rowfeeder a tool to stream real time tweets into a google spreadsheet it s something we needed and it s been surprisingly helpful january 27 2010 1 min the seattle startup scene this is a continuation of a tweet even in the past 3 days my reading habits have changed still sucking up massive amounts of information just different types there s an interesting transition i m going through i moved to seattle over three years ago one of the reasons i moved was the awesome security community like toorcon and the great security shops here in town but i m staying because of the awesome startup community january 27 2010 2 min tweetstats two years ago well i m about 45 minutes late on this but i did want to mention that two years ago on december 27 2007 i released the first version of my twitter stats script it was a hack it scraped the twitter com website it was in perl it exported into your clipboard and the data had to be pasted into a numbers template but it worked and it was the beginning of a long journey that is culminating in something i m going to announce tomorrow today december 28 2009 1 min next 2025 dcortesi com powered by hugo papermod