So I finally have one of those jobs where I can tell people almost every little detail about what I’m doing and I’m encouraged to talk to people on the intar-webs and solicit opinions.

Today I said my good-byes to Delicious.com and Yahoo! and tonight I went to the Addons Meetup @ Mozilla to get a sneak peak at what I’ll be working on in less than two weeks.

I was thrilled. I had no idea how many people to expect, but the Mozilla living room was packed - and most people were there the whole time. Real developers with really cool addons giving feedback to addons.mozilla.org directly. No matter how many blog comments, forums answered, customer care emails I responded to at Delicious - nothing beats the real insight and instant feedback you get from meeting a group of users face to face.

My brain, because of Delicious is always in data mining and analysis mode so through each presentation and each question asked, my brain was churning through things that I could build to bring some level of utility to the community.

I’m also happy to be joining an organization where everything is open sourced and available for comment. So I’m hoping to post a lot more on some of the cool tricks I do at Mozilla.

So I’ve been churning away in my last few days in Delicious-land trying to optimize some python code.

Last Sunday (April 26 2009), Katie and I decided to stay in and enjoy the rest of our weekend. We heard our cat, Buster, vomiting as he sometimes does. Katie was a little concerned since he wasn’t vomiting up food as he normally does - we were worried that he had ingested something. Then he got curiously lethargic and unresponsive - so Katie and I rushed him to Adobe Animal Hospital.

Someone had mentioned “generators” in python to me, so I decided to figure out what it was… and I figured it out. I think a simple example would help explain it:

I’ve been tooling around with the DiggBar and I’ve been quite pleased… but I was a bit annoyed that it was hard to bookmark things in Delicious via the digg bar. I’d have to either close bar and then bookmark in delicious, or right click on the url in the DiggBar and then change the title.