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--Kyle
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I’m just not an artist. Never have, and never will be. I can do some “digital art”, but it’s pretty limited.
So, I thought for everyone’s amusement, I would post a sketch I did on Monday. It’s related to a project that we (Intuitive Industries) are starting, and I needed to be able to let people know what I was seeing in my head. I can’t say any more now, but just enjoy the sketch.
Feel free to laugh very hard.
I’ve been trying to associate the search terms “kyle brady” with me and this domain for awhile now, which is more difficult than your average person searching for themselves… I have to compete with the football player.
I occasionally search my name just to see where I happen to stand in the results for that moment (since Google’s results list can change drastically, depending on which sort algorithm they’re testing on you, it’s never a “for sure” position)… and I just came across myself in the #4 slot on the first page. I was pretty excited (how’s that for geekiness?), and took a screenshot so I have proof if other people can’t reproduce the results:
Hopefully this trend continues, and I owe a “thank you” to the feed subscribers, the actual-site-visitors, and the people that link to me (even though it’s sometimes only images that aren’t even mine).
Over the last 2.5 weeks, I’ve been experimenting with producing an online comic (you’ve probably already noticed). I’ve really enjoyed an outlet for my weird sense of humor, and have gotten mixed responses, as well as some pretty big traffic spikes.
But I’ve kind of put myself into a corner for the moment, where many different things are converging. I can’t really disclose full details at the moment, but it’s safe to say that I’m not going to be back at the webcomic game until at least mid-May, and at the latest, early June.
This has nothing to do with any of the number of violently verbal attacks on my insanity, and in fact those are much more appreciated than the positive feedback… it makes me laugh, knowing that I bothered someone with my “creativity”. Like I’ve said, this has everything to do with the end of my last semester at school (by choice, not by graduation), the looming deadline for a real-world life, Intuitive Industries, OneSwirl, and a small handful of other things.
I’ll keep blogging at random, and may even spit some code out on here tomorrow… but no comics for awhile.
As usual, been pretty busy. Here’s some brief updates:
[if you subscribed to this feed hoping to only see the comics, try this feed]
This is from “After the Gold Rush” by Steve McConnell:
Project managers both love and fear “hero programmers” because these programmers are smart, temperamental, and sometimes a little self-righteous…
Never have I heard something that described me so perfectly, and it was written 10 years ago…
Ok, I haven’t gotten it yet, but I finished designing it. This is what it will look like (click for full size):
Details:
Last night I started work on an interesting project of mine, on the subject of “Lifestreaming”. Basically, one location that pulls together everything you may do or be involved in on the Internet, through RSS feeds and some “neat tricks”, creating a unified RSS feed for whoever may be interested.
So, for example, rather than someone following my blog, Twitter, and what I “digg” on Digg… they could just subscribe to this all-in-one feed to keep track of my activities. Or visit the main page of wherever this will be, and see things like “Kyle dugg [whatever]” or “Kyle’s Twittering [something]“.
Once I get this working, to a certain point, I’m going to publish it for people to view, even as I continue to develop it. Before that happens, I need to create a database caching method of the RSS feeds, which will probably happen tonight.
But, and this is the big kicker, I’m going to be releasing the “Services Library” as open source code, probably under GNU and through a joint venture of myself and my company. This library is what pulls in the different RSS feeds, and pulls out the specific details of the feed for each service. For example, Twitter’s “description” and “title” tags are both the same, the actual Twitters themselves… but Digg’s “title” is what I want, and not the “description”.
This little project may turn into something bigger, but we’ll see how it goes.
So, yeah, I’m famous. Not quite as much as Corey’s glasses (try CollegeHumor if you don’t know what I’m talking about), but hopefully one day I can attain that status.
Anyways, I had a small interview with The Examiner (a paper that has a few local editions in places like Baltimore, San Francisco, San Jose, etc.), Baltimore Edition, about the business and mySHOUToutLOUD. Since it was my first interview, and writeup in a paper, I’m pretty excited about it.
Give Us a Read, Precious.
