Comments by Patrick Lightbody

Steven,
Great article! I’ll be sharing this with a bunch of folks. I’ve already posted to it on my new startup’s blog at http://blog.browsermob.com.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on our new business. We built the world’s first load testing service that actually uses real browser instances to play back load. Our theory is that as web apps become more advanced, testing externally and using real browsers to drive load is going to become much more important.

Plus, it’s cool to be able to command 5000 Firefox instances at will :)

Patrick

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I find that having a good blogging tool helps blog more frequently. I use ecto for OS X, which has decent browser integration and can handle images fairly well. The other thing I do is make notes of blog ideas inside of my GTD app of choice (CulcturedCode’s Things) so that I’ve always got a list to draw from.

PS: Feel free to email me thoughts on http://browsermob.com. Thanks for checking it out!

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Great interview Andy!

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Positive news? Of course: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

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Just wanted to let everyone know I’m doing my part in Oregon. Last week I helped with a fundraiser for Merkley (who is slightly ahead of Smith) and raised $13,000 with the help of a bunch of young professionals (mostly lawyers, though there were some tech dorks like me).

While there, I urged people I spoke to to also set up a recurring $50/week contribution to Obama. I think the recurring bit will make the most difference. If you can afford to do it (don’t look at your retirement savings when deciding), I recommend doing some recurring donation rather than a lump sum.

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Steve,
One note about the “hit space bar a few times” comment:

I have, traditionally, never noticed the names of the authors in TechCrunch posts. That’s because TechCrunch has established a reputation with me and I generally treat posts on TC as “from TC” rather than “from Michael Arrington” or “from Steve Gillmore”. This is a testimony to the quality of TechCrunch articles. I’d prefer to keep it such that TechCrunch is a place I know I can go to to get high quality posts that enlighten me on the state of the tech industry. Today’s post left me confused, and thus disappointed with TechCrunch overall (not just you).

All that said - I know you won’t be discouraged. But I do hope you take the constructive feedback some have provided and make an effort to make your points and statements a little easier for us mere mortals to follow

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