rc3.org

rc3.org is the personal weblog of Rafe Colburn. I’ve been blogging since December, 1998, mostly about software development, life on the Web, and the Internet and software industries. I’m a professional software developer, and the author of a number of books on Web development, and tend to write a lot about those topics. I blog about politics, but only when I can’t stop myself. I’m also fascinated by economics, but I’m strictly a dilettante.

I tend to think a lot about systems and how they behave, whether those systems are applications, online communities, cities, or governments, and I’m always delighted to find patterns that apply in similar ways to small systems and large ones. I’m also interested in analogies between software development and other fields of endeavor.

I did my first real online writing in the very early 90s when a friend and I launched a mostly unsuccessful competitor to Phrack magazine.

I live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

My favorite saying that I came up with myself is, “Cognitive dissonance makes the world go round.”

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This site is published using WordPress, MySQL, and Apache. It’s hosted on a server at Layered Tech running FreeBSD.

The theme is a modified version of Cutline, and I use Akismet to squash spam, WP-OpenID for authentication, FeedBurner FeedSmith to publish my feed, Markdown Extra for formatting (I really love Markdown), and WPhone as the mobile administrative interface.

I use MarsEdit to compose most of my posts.