Tag: digg

  • Back in the RSSR

    Back in the RSSR

    My reddit account just turned 8 this year, in that time the more I visited reddit, the less I checked RSS feeds. To the point where I completely stopped reading them after Google killed reader. Reddit was where I got all my news and that was fine. But over the years – I don’t know if…


  • DIGG: 4000% PERFORMANCE INCREASE BY SORTING IN PHP RATHER THAN MYSQL

    To scale at Digg they followed a set of practices very similar to those used at eBay. No joins, no foreign key constraints (to scale writes), primary key look-ups only, limited range queries, and joins were done in memory. When implementing the comment feature a 4,000 percent increase in performance was created by sorting in…


  • Digg Launches Firefox 3 Toolbar

    This might actually get me using digg again. We’ll see. Install link here. Digg Firefox 3 Extension from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.


  • Top 5%

    According to Kevin Rose (of digg and diggnation fame) I am in the top 5% of php developers. In the last episode of This Week in Tech, he mentioned that 95% of the resumes he receives for digg.com positions are from developers who haven’t even worked on a site that gets 1 million uniques, let…


  • Is Reddit better than Digg?

    This week has been a bit of a revival in terms of my computer usage, I’ve found a great photoshop alternative and now I think I may have found a Digg replacement. A few weeks ago my good buddy notian mentioned that he had started reading the social news site reddit, I’d heard of the…