Adrian Holovaty
Co-creator of the Django Web framework
Web developer, journalist, founder at EveryBlock.com, cocreator of the Django Web framework, poster of YouTube guitar videos.
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279 tweets
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My vote for Chicago Music Event Of The Year: Adrien Moignard and Benoit Convert playing gypsy jazz at the Green Mill tonight. See you there.
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@jtauber Django Jesus is witty (so far). The Django Pony is just stupid.
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#Chicago people, I have started a band: Hot Club Thing. Punctuate your weekend with us at Quenchers this Sunday from 9 to midnight.
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Just created my first slashtag on @blekko . This has some serious potential.
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People who misinterpret "premature optimization is the root of all evil" are the root of all evil.
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The Google Maps API is now 5 years old, and I contributed a small retrospective for the Google Geo Developers Blog: http://bit.ly/9yRPMi
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I've finally released an album of some guitar music. Check it out and spread the word! http://bit.ly/d01hiP
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I had the pleasure of playing with the great German gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqde45SnzGo
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For Chicago people who like blues music -- you absolutely must go see Cafe R&B play at Buddy Guy's Legends on Saturday night. What a band.
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RT @anildash : Why do iPhone + iPad support PDF? It's largely Adobe proprietary, insecure & slow. And HTML5 provides most of its features.
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Wow, just realized chicagocrime.org was launched 5 years ago: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-launch/
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New (to me) search engine DuckDuckGo looks really cool: http://bit.ly/cGOBfN
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The New York Times covers our efforts to get more detailed Chicago crime data: http://nyti.ms/9PK15D
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Next time you want to feel stupid, visit http://mathoverflow.net/ and see whether you can comprehend even a single one of the questions.
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Next time you redesign a site and get a flood of complaints, consider this: at least you're not YouTube. http://bit.ly/aAga78
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Hey, Portland people, EveryBlock is here: http://blog.everyblock.com/2010/mar/25/portland/
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This is easily the most proud and excited I've ever been about a Django development: theonion.com is now Django-powered.
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@jasonfried That is awesome. I remember having the cartoony team ones after they won the championships, but not this one...
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Oh, man...this could be the greatest t-shirt of all time. http://bit.ly/caaLIL (Via @gapersblock ) #90s-era-chicago-bulls
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Yes, there is a connection between the iPad and Django: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SavaQmxv9po
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Music recommendation for @justinlilly and whomever else: the new Rosenberg Trio album is awesome and a steal at ~$11. http://bit.ly/5Uc6rK
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Django: Now with a lighter platypus. http://bit.ly/5W09HC
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Calling all Django devs: we're hosting a Django sprint in Chicago this weekend. You can join us on IRC, too. http://bit.ly/7kZZY1
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Percentage of Yelp reviewers who have declared a particular food item is "like crack" and have ever actually tried crack: 0.14%.
