Category Archives: Daily-Life

Downloading the internet, or how we got our first 1M articles

Sometime over this weekend the magic number of articles in our database reached a cool 1,000,000 articles – it’s actually 1,035,511 right now. Image by Amsterdamize via Flickr Because it’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post for Preona I thought this was the perfect occasion to talk a bit of tech [...]

HackerNews full feed for your reading pleasure

tl;dr -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/HackerNewsFullFeed Last night I was hanging around the #startups IRC channel and I just glimpsed the final half of a debate about how much the HackerNews RSS feed sucks. As anyone who reads HackerNews via RSS knows, the feed only contains a title, a link to the content and a link to the [...]

Our USA adventure was just like the movies

It is now two weeks since we came back to Slovenia from the U.S. It’s cold, it’s raining almost every day and we are back in the basement coding and developing further while thinking of the sun and warmth we remember from California. Also the scent of snow in the air makes it easier for [...]

We reached the 1000 commits milestone!

Deciding to launch LazyReadr this September has made for one hectic fun-filled and not very relaxing summer. As a result Hamax made the 1000th commit to our svn repository yesterday. And I owe him a batch of home made muffins for it even though at least 50% of all the commits were mine, but hey, [...]

Our very awesome countdown board is quite awesome

Last night, or quite possibly two nights ago, I was very bored at night. So much so that I watched Street Customs on Discovery Channel. For those who don’t know, it’s a show about a very cool entrepreneur who got a 3000$ loan from his gramps and transformed them into a huge worldwide car customising business [...]