Entries from October 2008 ↓

Ah that’s just great. Through a tense but harmless procedure I managed to recover access to my entire blogging history since the beginning.

In the records it appears that my first ever blog post is dated May 8th 2000. A long time ago!

I’ll go even further and embarrass myself quoting it in full:

Hello there ! This is just my first experiment with Blogger. Please don’t be upset if this is not yet so interesting and check back soon … please.

The next step will be importing all this content in all its glory into this blog. I am sure it’s perfectly possible, though I expect it will take sometime. We will see. For now I am happy.

It’s been a crazy ride these past few weeks.

My partner in crime – nocivus – and I have been working very hard on our submission for the 2009 Winter round of Y Combinator.

It has been a lot of fun.

Creative energy is like a drug. When you’re under its effect you can’t stop working and fleshing out ideas. We’ve been coding like crazy. We’ve been thinking and thinking about what we would really need first, to present a cool demo. We thought hard at the problem we wanted to solve, at our target, at the way we could make money.

So here it is, our creation, diffract.me. We can’t disclose too much about what we’re building but it’s real now. In front of our eyes.

We also picked a name for our company. A funny name. The origin of the name comes from an hilarious piece from Eddie Izzard. Here I present you evil giraffe.

I had problems setting up postfix to run properly on my macbook pro.

Then I found this very clear, step by step how to. And now everything works like a charm.

The only drawback is that I can now basically only send email from my gmail account. Well that will do it for now.

Beautiful tip to search and replace all occurrences of a string in a given folder. 

I had to change it slightly to make it work under OSX so here it is for future reference:

  find . -type f -exec sed -i -e ‘s/Old/New/g’ {} \;