Jan-Piet Mens

I tend to block Twitter followers who I feel are spammers/trolls, and I probably did the same with sexydiamond667 a while ago. And now it decides it doesn't want to follow me any longer.

I've always wondered whether Qwitter actually works — it appears to.

Update notifications sent by a database allow me to react to changes submitted to it in almost real-time without having to continuously (or periodically) poll said database. Note, that update notifications are not the same thing as database triggers as known in the relational database world: update notifications are submitted after a database modification has [...]

For experimenting, I wanted a source of data. Lots of data. For my application it would be trivial to generate such data, but I wanted lots of randomness in it, so I tapped into a bit of the Twitter firehose. This firehose is the full feed of tweets (somewhere about 50 million (!) tweets per [...]

The other day, a friend and I where making fun of somebody who is known to say that the DNS is always at fault. Since no normal human being knows what dig is, let alone how to use it, we thought of building a mail to DNS gateway as a joke. Anyhow, the whole thing [...]

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Thanks, Andreas!

From the there-ain't-nothing-that-don't-exist department: Are you without an Internet or mobile phone connection in the middle of nowhere, and want to tweet? Print out this postcard, and Tweet by Snail Mail will tweet the text on it for you. (You can also watch their tweets in "real time". )
Do you live in New [...]