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Hello. My name is Derek Perez. I write software, particularly for the internets.

still humble, still hungry, still foolish.

still humble, still hungry, still foolish.

This photo is embedded with so much meaning, to me.

This photo is embedded with so much meaning, to me.

Performance Tuning by Joe Damato

Ed Catmull, CEO of Pixar, discussing culture, risk, and addressing fear.

autoadvert: Vintage advertising: what can be conceived can be created. Ferrari.

autoadvert:

Vintage advertising: what can be conceived can be created. Ferrari.

Sean and Co. up late deploying software to our beta group.

Sean and Co. up late deploying software to our beta group.

Nothing but net. My new Samsung 5 Chromebook just arrived @ Orchestra HQ. I am really excited about this platform and will be blogging my feels about it more later. Give me some time to get used to it. Thanks to Mark Azevedo for the excellent slogan, he is my resident punologist.

Nothing but net. My new Samsung 5 Chromebook just arrived @ Orchestra HQ. I am really excited about this platform and will be blogging my feels about it more later. Give me some time to get used to it.

  • Thanks to Mark Azevedo for the excellent slogan, he is my resident punologist.

Paul Graham, discussing his feelings on the current startup/IPO climate. “You’re [startup is] a mosquito, you might get squashed by a big company, who cares, start another startup … All you need to do to survive is make something that improves peoples lives.” — Paul

The Future of JavaScript; Must See.

Amazing talk by Jeremy Ashkenas and Brendan Eich, both are massive contributors to the world of JavaScript. This is a fantastic walkthrough of the state of JS across the browser and elsewhere. I am amazed by the current JavaScript landscape, and I am looking forward to its future!

An Interview with Dieter Rams

Fun to read interview with Dieter Rams, he is often referred to as “the designer’s designer” or “the greatest designer alive”. In this interview, Dieter describes his hatred for the “planned obsolesce” model that manufacturing of consumer goods has moved to. He is still developing the 606, their shelving unit design that started nearly 50 years.