Jim Pick

New project: Pipette

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 07:47:24 -0800

I’m building a new piece of software named “Pipette”. It’s a blogging system. built on top of the Dat peer-to-peer protocol.

I created a new development blog for the project where you can track my progress:

https://pipette-dev-blog-jimpick.hashbase.io/

You might want to start by reading the first blog post there, “Introducing Pipette”.

Going to the 2017 Indieweb Summit

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:44:41 -0700

I had fun at the IndieWeb Summit last year in Portland, so I’ve decided to go again!

https://2017.indieweb.org/

I’m mostly writing this post to see if I can do an IndieRSVP.

IndieWeb Summit 2016

Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:58:14 -0700

Last weekend, I travelled to Portland, Oregon to attend the 2016 IndieWeb Summit. It was the first time the gathering has been called the “IndieWeb Summit”, but it’s actually the 5th year that the core of the community has gotten together in Portland.

I’ve been curious about the IndieWeb community and the software they have been creating for some time now, but I never really had the time to take a deep dive and figure out what it was really all about.

Fortunately for me, Portland is a pretty easy trip from Vancouver, Canada, so I booked a train ticket and a hotel and committed myself to learning what this IndieWeb thing actually is!

Vancouver Polyglot Unconference 2016

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:38:39 -0700

Last Saturday, I attended the 2016 edition of the Polyglot Unconference here in Vancouver, Canada.

It was the 5th time it’s been held. This was my 4th.

I always love Polyglot because it attracts a good cross-section of the development community in Vancouver, and it’s possible to “take the pulse” of what’s happening in an otherwise fragmented space.

A day on the Hacker News home page: lambda-comments

Tue, 10 May 2016 14:34:51 -0700

On Thursday night, I finally blogged about my new open-source project for self-hosting blog comments using Amazon’s Lambda service. Then a lot of things happened…

Introducing lambda-comments

Thu, 05 May 2016 10:06:52 -0700

I’d like to introduce a new open-source project which I hope will be useful to people who would like to add comments to their blog or website.

The project is called “lambda-comments”, and you can find the project page on GitHub.

Seattle Trip January 2016

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:41:01 -0800

Last week, together with my wife and dog, we made a short 3-day trip to Seattle to check out a few events there.

Talk: VanJS January 2016

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:00:09 -0800

Yesterday, for the first time in a while, I went to the VanJS Meetup at UBC Robson Square. It was good catching up with some friends I haven’t spoken with for several months. This year, I’m going to try to put myself out there some more, and get out to more meetups – and blog about them too.

Talk: Human API - Scaling docker microservices w/ Mesos & Kafka

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:49:24 -0700

On Wednesday, I went to see a talk titled Scaling docker microservices w/ Mesos & Kafka ~ Human API. I was super excited by the topic, as I’m also using Docker and Kafka in production. You’re actually using it by reading this blog! I was also excited because I used to work with one of the presenters Rob Gulewich at Joyent.

Flux frameworks: Marty.js => Redux or Alt?

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:00:17 -0700

A few months back, I did some research into Flux frameworks for React.js, and I decided to try out Marty.js. I liked the documentation, the fact that it had some nice examples of how to build an Isomorphic/Universal app, and it had some opinions about how to hook in the asynchronous data fetching code. Compared to some of the other Flux frameworks, it was less biased towards ES6. I really like the new ES6 features, but there’s so much tooling involved.

Rebooting my blog

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:38:00 -0700

I’ve had a vanity domain name for a long time. The whois record for jimpick.com says I registered my domain way back in May 1996.

Domains were pretty expensive back then – I think it was $75 US for 2 years. That was super expensive for me at the time. I had just turned 26, and I had just quit a steady job in a big IT department to start freelancing because I was so very excited about the Internet.