Stories by simonw

Drew Houston’s morph from hacker to hyper-growth CEO

Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph [pdf]

MVC is not a helpful analogy for Django

Introducing Lanyrd Pro, for companies that speak at and sponsor events

Messaging at Scale at Instagram (video + slides from PyCon)

So you want to write an interpreter? Slides+video from Alex Gaynor's PyCon talk

We've just shipped LinkedIn integration for Lanyrd

How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to PostgreSQL with no downtime

Lanyrd: the early days - honest story of our startup's launch

Track topics (and places) on Lanyrd for smarter conference & event suggestions

Microsoft's Lost Decade

Using iOS push notifications to provide "push this page to your iPhone"

Google+ ripple diagram shows the spread of an article over time

How to start and run an evening event, with tips from UK tech event organisers

Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account

IEBlog: Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (IE10)

Guide to indie US software conferences run by devs for devs

Lanyrd leverages Twitter to show you which SXSWi panels you should attend

Why client-side web development is harder than server-side development

Lanyrd (YC W11) seeks UX and visual designer to work with us in London

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