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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

I am the chief technical something or other at Reverb.com - The Marketplace for Musicians. We're hiring web designers!

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Reverb Dev Blog Launches

We just launched the Reverb Dev Blog. I’ll be blogging there about more technical topics. This blog will remain as my personal blog with broader articles and thoughts, but with less technical content. If you’re interested in advanced Rails concepts and lean startup techniques, please follow the Reverb Dev Blog.


Google Reader dies. Who will profit?

Google is killing off Google Reader, which acts as a warehouse of feeds for many people, feeding apps like Feedly and MobileRSS. When it goes away there will be a power void. What we need is for someone to quickly build an API compatible replacement. Don’t worry about the web UI part, just let people [...]


Nine months of pair programming

I’ve paired off and on throughout my programming career, but for the last nine months, I’ve had a chance to pair nearly full time. I’m not much of a drink-the-koolaid dogmatist, so I’ll try to give my honest opinion about what’s wonderful and not so wonderful about pair programming. The Good: Zero time for knowledge [...]


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