Jon Parise

@jparise

Lead Architect at . Former game developer (, , Ultima Online). Scientia Potentia Est.

Oakland, CA
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Joined September 2007
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    Mar 12

    The clever people at have created this deceptively simple yet highly effective data visualisation showing monthly global temperatures between 1880-2021. Watch until the end... Learn more here -

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    Feb 27

    i love staring at this

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    Feb 8

    With: 450 Million+ global monthly active users 300 Billion pins saved 2500 employees You could say ’s iOS & mobile CI/CD build infrastructure is doing some heavy lifting, take a look at their brand new architecture

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  4. Feb 5

    With the in full swing, I’ve got my displaying the live medal standings once again. Here’s the source code if you’d like to run it yourself:

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    Jan 28

    The App Store circa 1978.

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    Jan 26

    Hey everybody. I have some big personal news. I am stepping aside as host of Radiolab. This show that I started in 2002 - in my basement - is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and this feels like the right time. (1/6)

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    Jan 26

    Knowing when to say 'no' by

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    Jan 20

    The art of saying no: clear principles, consistent application, and the willingness to forego them out of pragmatism. Head over to The ReadME Project where shares more tips:

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    18 Apr 2012

    Why we freed the Prince of Persia source code: The perils of digital storage

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    Jan 12

    Sorry but interface design peaked with winamp skins

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  11. Jan 12

    I wrote a piece for 's ReadME project about an important aspect of software maintenance: recognizing which contributions are a good fit for a project—and which are not.

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  12. Jan 10

    Still the most excellent depiction of yak shaving I’ve come across

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  13. Jan 9

    Wordle 204 6/6 Yikes!

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    Jan 9

    Life moves pretty fast. 15 years ago today, the world met iPhone for the first time and in a moment everything changed. Many more big moments to come.

    2007 MacWorld Keynote
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  15. Jan 8

    Wordle 203 3/6 My best so far.

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    Jan 3

    3/ As someone in the code, every day, you will see things that others will never see. You will know what's possible; they'll guess what's possible. Some of the best product features are born because engineers found clever ways to solve something. Look out for those things.

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  17. Jan 4

    I understood the redshift in principle, but I hadn’t realized how far it causes light from very distant objects to “shift” out of the UV & visible ranges and into the infrared. Dr. John Mather explains how this applies to the James Webb Space Telescope:

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  18. Jan 3

    I’ve been doing a version of this for most of my professional career. Recommended!

    Productivity tip: Before you end the workday, make a note of a task (preferably a small and easy one) that you can immediately start working on when you sit down tomorrow. Doing this makes the next morning easier, more enjoyable and more efficient.
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    Jan 1

    Some statistics to start the year: During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina. Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.

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  20. 30 Dec 2021

    New Python 3-only versions of flake8-author and flake8-assertive are out. Nothing significant in these releases other than dropping support for old versions and general end-of-the-year housekeeping.

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