Kellan kellan

I think a lot about building social experiences. Building social and communities sites were hugely formative in my life, and the time in which I grew up. I also believe that social and communitiy experieces are a critical force in makign the world better, and as a technologist I think a lot about in what ways technology can play a positive role in their formation. But there is a problem that haunts me, so I'm writing this out as a way to start addressing it.

It used to be relatively cheap and easy to build a social network. This was great because there are lots of social experiments that can be a positive force in the world, but don't achieve the kind of scales that make them commercially viable in our modern advertising ecosystem. The internet (including the pre-web) internet flourished with dedicated small community discussion sites, and early 2000s web saw a similar flourish of purpose built social experiments around interests (think last.fm, or allconsuming, or mirror project, or dozens and dozens of ot

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am kellan on github.
I am kellan (https://keybase.io/kellan) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 8CB7 E4FB 7173 4981 2448 20C0 886E 691B 1563 5181

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# who are the contributor to this repo?
	#

	# Check if the repository path is provided
	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/repo [start_date] [end_date]"
	exit 1

	const fs = require('fs');
	const es = require('event-stream');
	const stripBom = require('strip-bom');

	let filepath = './short.tsv';
	let reader = fs.createReadStream(filepath);

	let keys;

	reader.pipe(es.split())

	from __future__ import print_function
	from PIL import Image, ExifTags



	def square_thumb(img, thumb_size):
	THUMB_SIZE = (thumb_size,thumb_size)
	exif=dict((ExifTags.TAGS[k], v) for k, v in img._getexif().items() if k in ExifTags.TAGS)
	if exif['Orientation'] == 3 :
	img=img.rotate(180, expand=True)

	function ec2-ssh () {
	FOO=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --filter Name=instance-id,Values=$1 \| jq '.Reservations[0].Instances[0].PublicIpAddress,.Reservations[0].Instances[0].\
	KeyName' \| tr -d '"')
	IPADDR=$(echo $FOO \| cut -d" " -f1)
	KEYNAME=$(echo $FOO \| cut -d" " -f2)
	ssh -i ~/.ssh/$KEYNAME.pem ec2-user@$IPADDR
	}

	update_expression, update_expression_names, update_values = generate_update(item)

	resp = table.update_item(
	Key=key,
	UpdateExpression=update_expression,
	ExpressionAttributeNames=update_expression_names,
	ExpressionAttributeValues=update_values)

	print(resp)

	Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter.
	Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no...
	Cheshire Cat: Or, there's the March Hare, in that direction.
	Alice: Oh, thank you. I think i shall visit him...
	Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too.
	Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people!
	Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here.

	#! /bin/bash

	python -m unittest $@