OpenID10 items tagged “reddit”
Dissecting today’s Internet traffic spikes (via) Theo Schlossnagle on how the increasing popularity of interest aggregation services such as Digg and Reddit result in traffic spikes that dwarf the old Slashdot effect, making a the old rules of thumb for capacity planning irrelevant. 
29th June 2008, 2:12 pm
This is the new blog-spam. [...] ’web design company’ takes the highest ranking comment from reddit, and posts it on the site that the original comment is based on. [...] Neat eh? They get to have links on a site that won’t get blog-spam filtered, because the comment is ’relevant’, since the comment originates from a comment thread about the site.
— ator_fighting_eagle 20th June 2008, 6:55 pm
Reddit release their codebase. Under the same Common Public Attribution License used by Facebook for their recent source release. 
18th June 2008, 2:32 pm
Django sub-reddit. Reddit are trialling the ability to create custom sub-reddits, so I put one up for Django links and discussions. 26th January 2008, 11:56 pm
Techniques for safely consuming external HTTP on demand? I asked this question on programming.reddit.com yesterday and got some really insightful answers, including Joe Stump from Digg describing how Digg Images uses Danga’s Gearman worker queue. 15th December 2007, 12:29 pm
An OpenID provider should catalogue the sites that a user logs into and automatically construct a homepage for them. That way, not only do the users have the convenience of having their favourite websites automatically bookmarked and readily available, but (with a little help from the consumers), they don’t have to log into the individual sites at all.
— Bogtha 13th July 2007, 7:26 am
The Beauty Of The Diffie-Hellman Protocol. Some useful explanations here. Diffie-Hellman is used by OpenID to establish a shared secret between the provider and the consumer. 1st March 2007, 10:08 pm
Three steps to OpenID. Maybe explaining OpenID isn’t as hard as I thought... Jacob Kaplan-Moss nails it in three. 20th December 2006, 12:44 pm
Never store passwords in a database! The reddit.com developers just learnt this the hard way. It might be time to change some of your passwords. 16th December 2006, 12:01 am
Why do so many reddit users hate java? The answers provide a good overview as to why Java has fallen out of favour with the alpha-hacker crowd. 15th December 2006, 2:20 pm
