I have taken running more seriously over the past year and cannot emphasize finding a running group more. Committing to run with others will build it into a habit. I have written about my experiences with running here http://aviadas.com/blog/2016/02/09/10-things-i-learnt-going-...

We have used Feathers to build http://www.zeek.ai/ and have been really happy with it so far. The consistency between the client and server libraries makes developing with Feathers fast.

Despite reading that webpage I still have difficulty understanding what the actual product of zeek.ai is. Has it something to do with converting Twitter followers to customers?

I think it's automated following and message sending to Twitter users. Maybe...

Glad to hear you are liking it!

'proprietary' in the Targeting section is misspelled fyi

Sample app link here is broken https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/ex...

Thanks for letting us know. We'll get that fixed (I'm an employee). Here's the correct link: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/ex...

The site is a node app, so you would need node and npm (the package manager for node) on your system.

Great to see a fellow PayPal Austinite on HN Chris! For a lot of people really quick and easy way to have a personal site up and running. Couple suggestions, possibly add system requirements and deploy instructions (possibly deploy to heroku/or deploy to digitalocean button) ?

Just saw this, thanks for the suggestions Avi! I'm currently messing around with it, I was already looking into one click deploy. I recall some time prior that Github unveiled a one click deploy button so I was going to try and integrate that into the repo.

From my experience of going to 20+ hackathons, few things come to mind

1. Have a well defined target audience and reach out early. People make weekend plans.

2. Be very clear about judging criteria.

3. Heavy presence of organizers throughout the event. It's not always easy for newbies at hackathon's, and organizers/mentors being around during the whole thing is great motivation.

4. A good venue where people can find quiet space/at the same time space to socialize.

5. Find a good balance between cheerleading during the hackathon and people working. Sponsor events are important, but continuous interruptions do not help flow work.

How were your monthly expenses like for this setup?

Although it's difficult to fully articulate, as our traffic is basically a bell curve through the day and we auto scale between say 7 and 13 servers throughout the day... We pay about $4200/month. That includes several TB of traffic (which we gzip compress where it makes sense).

The last year's page link is throwing a 404 error. http://www.ianww.com/blog/blog/2013/12/31/my-year-in-side-pr...

Great side projects btw, if you don't mind me asking, how to do choose to allocate time amongst side projects and keep yourself focused? It seems that with side projects, one challenge is to avoid the trap of too many interesting ones to start working on.

That URL has /blog twice. Remove one and you're ok

http://www.kimonolabs.com/worldcup/docs Kimonolabs seems to have one a world cup api too

Write and quit on vi/vim, its quite hilarious to see them actually on code :)

Happens to me all the time if I'm in an IDE for some reason.