back, sort of

Sunday, January 28, 2001, at 06:08AM

By Eric Richardson

So the first thing you'll notice here is that loading stuff from this part of the site right now is going to be pretty slow. I realize this, and I'm working on it. Basically you're getting content delivered from a slow line in Michigan by way of a stop in California. I need to optimize the db calls so that we spend as little time in MI as possible.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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