independent software developer
Calm down, Internet, I am back! My server had a small mishap.
My new hosting provider is much more reliable than my old one. Hooray!
My new one is called prgmr.com and they are great.
I have also taken the opportunity to redesign my website. I hope you like it.
(image of Linus Torvalds in a speedo originally from xkcdsucks.blogspot.com)
Google recently announced that they are discontinuing the social features of Google Reader and folding that functionality into Google+. So basically the thing that I liked most about Google Reader, not it's social network features but it's actual social network - the one made of the real people who inhabit my Google Reader friends list - is going to disappear this some time this week. Google Reader was by far my favorite and most active social network so this is pretty crummy from my perspective.
Maybe Google don't realise the value in that network aside from the features of the software itself. Maybe they don't care because they just want to get people into Google+. Either way, we the users lose.
Oh well, this is what you get when you use proprietary software. At some point the company that develops and controls that software will do something you don't like. There is basically nothing you can do about it.
So long, Reader friends, it has been a genuine pleasure! (and for the OCD amongst you, I am very sorry for the hypersharing) :)
Today I submitted this PocketLoops prototype app to the Univation WApp competition.
This builds on my PdDroidParty work, which is the engine of the app (as well as the impending CanOfBeats re-release!).
Fun mobile-music times. :)
