User:Lmorchard.com

Les Orchard

About Me / Elsewhere

Sr. Web Developer, Mozilla Corporation

• http://lmorchard.com/
• http://decafbad.com/
• https://github.com/lmorchard
• @lmorchard
• http://pinboard.in/u:deusx

Areas of Interest

Syndication feeds (RSS/Atom); Activity Streams; mashups; data ownership; user-sovereignty.

Working On

• feeder2 - Latest attempt at a web feed poller & general node.js saw-sharpening

Thinking about

• Simple static web hosting service
  • No smarts, no structure beyond URLs. Put this content at that URL under my (sub)domain.
  • Like Amazon S3 but with a non-horrible on-ramp
  • Like Dropbox but specifically for scalable web hosting
  • Like remoteStorage but (again) specifically for web hosting
  • Simple API with Oauth(ish?) permission dance for apps

Itches

• lmorchard.com hasn't got respectable SSL

Mothballed

Used to work on these things. I stopped. Might start again, someday. Then again, maybe not.

• Tinkering with Activity Streams - I started writing a sequel to my Hacking RSS & Atom book, but didn't get far.
• notational-vapor - A fast notepad in the clouds (mainly Dropbox)
• thumb-extractor - Come up with a thumbnail image for any given URL, handy for feed readers
• badg.us - Badges & achievements for all the web