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Alex Payne

https://twitter.com/al3x

Twitter's API Lead. Writer, critic, beverage enthusiast, programming language obsessive.

Areas of Expertise:

Scala
Ruby
REST
web
Rails
security

Mac
API
consulting
speaking
writing

Biography

Alex Payne currently works for Twitter, Inc., a communications service that allows users to send short one-to-many messages via a variety of media. His title at Twitter is API Lead; his daily work is growing and supporting a collection of services on which other developers can build. Alex has been working at Twitter since the beginning of 2007, several months before the service began to grow in popularity. Working at Twitter has been an education in scaling, performance optimization, and systems architecture. Before working at Twitter, Alex did information security work for a military and intelligence contractor, helped build web applications for political campaigns and non-profits, and more. As you might guess, his professional expertise has been in web application development and computer security. He's been working in technology since before he was old enough to legally hold a work permit; his first internship was at age twelve. As a sort of work-related hobby Alex studies the design and implementation of programming languages comparatively. This hobby has lately turned into a side-project, as he's co-authoring a book on the Scala programming language for O?Reilly, due in mid-2009. He also does a fair bit of speaking on technical topics he's interested in.

Books

Programming Scala: Rough Cuts Version
by Dean Wampler , Alex Payne
February 2009
Online: $19.99
Print : ~~$39.99~~ $25.99
Bundle: $43.99

Blog

Alex's blog posts are hosted at:
https://al3x.net/

Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion

April 04 2009

Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion There’s a counterpart to my post on technology journalism that I’ve been hesitant to write. Just as most professional journalism on high technology fails us today, so too does the online discussion amongst technologists as a community. Social media (blogs, community news sites like… read more

Towards Better Technology Journalism

March 03 2009

Towards Better Technology Journalism Rarely does technology journalism produce informed, correct, relevant, and readable content. This is a sorry and damaging state of affairs. I’ve been drafting this post in my head for ages, and bringing the topic up to friends and colleagues ad nauseam. One approach I could take is to… read more

Why I Don't Allow Comments, and More on Everything Buckets

February 24 2009

Why I Don’t Allow Comments, and More on Everything Buckets I don’t allow comments on this site. I have my reasons. There are certain types of sites for which comments work well. Metafilter is probably the best example of a long-lived web community that still boasts valuable, cogent comments. Investor Fred Wilson’s… read more

The Problem With Email Clients

February 08 2009

The Problem With Email Clients A little over a week ago, Gmail made it possible to “go offline” and take the contents of your email archive wherever you like. Slate’s technology columnist, Farhad Manjoo, wrote an effusive piece declaring Gmail the victor in a battle between desktop email clients and webmail… read more

The Case Against Everything Buckets

January 31 2009

The Case Against Everything Buckets The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me. If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing cabinet”… read more

The Thing About Security

January 12 2009

The Thing About Security Last week, Twitter, the thing I work on, had some security issues. Earlier in the week a phishing attack started going around. Then, someone used a dictionary attack to grab the account of one of our support staff, who has administrative privileges on the site. We cleaned… read more

My Interview with Waferbaby

January 02 2009

My Interview with Waferbaby My friend Daniel, perhaps better known as Waferbaby, has started a new section of his ever-evolving web presence that features interviews with people about their hardware and software setups. It’s called, appropriately, The Setup, and I’m flattered to be the first person Daniel interviewed for it. I’ve reproduced… read more

Why I Don't Work In Information Security

December 31 2008

Why I Don’t Work In Information Security Yesterday, the web was abuzz with news about a paper released at the 2008 Chaos Communication Congress. This paper details an attack against the SSL certificates that web browsers and other software use to verify and encrypt communication between client and server. Some of… read more

Journaling vs. Blogging vs. Twittering

December 29 2008

Journaling vs. Blogging vs. Twittering I’ve begun to keep a private journal/diary/logbook. The format I’ve adopted is simple: one entry per day consisting of two paragraphs. The first paragraph has a sentence for everything noteworthy I’ve done that day. The second paragraph consists of what I’ve been thinking about. Activities and… read more

Software I Paid For But No Longer Use

December 24 2008

Software I Paid For But No Longer Use As much as I like open source, I enjoy paying for software. Give me a good solution with a nice interface, and I’ll give you some reasonable amount of money. Digital life being fluid and transient, even paid software can quickly fall to the… read more

Life As A Series of Queues

December 22 2008

Life As A Series of Queues A downside of many information architectures is the reduction of data to items in queues that must be manually processed. Though information technology has saved the “knowledge work” generations from a lifetime of manual labor, we have our own assembly lines. Here are the queues I… read more

Recession Engineering

December 04 2008

Recession Engineering It seems like everyone’s taking guesses as to how the recession will impact their little corner of the world. This is my guess. The trend in engineering and architecture during the now-bursting Web 2.0 bubble has been one of precious little engineering at all. It’s become the common wisdom… read more

How I Use TextMate

December 03 2008

How I Use TextMate Having explored other text editors and remained unsatisfied, I’ve committed to using TextMate for the foreseeable future. My only hesitation was that TextMate was getting to be practically (although hyperbolically) abandonware. Thankfully, this fear was assuaged by a recent update over the Thanksgiving holiday. It lives! I keep… read more

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