{"id":645,"date":"2008-05-29T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2008-05-29T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T04:08:07","slug":"kevin-lawver-leaves-aol-and-ficlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/kevin-lawver-leaves-aol-and-ficlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lawver leaves AOL&#8230;and Ficlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\">Ficlets<\/a>, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kplawver\/statuses\/822515518\">tweet<\/a> earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\/blog\/entry\/news_be_well_do_good_work_and_keep_in_touch\">blog post on Ficlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin built an absolutely amazing site in Ficlets, one that I wish I had more time to play around with. It&#8217;s funny, actually, how every time I go to the site with the intent to write a ficlet, I instead end up wasting the better part of an hour simply reading the fantastic content the site&#8217;s dedicated community has created. It&#8217;s a bit unfair to say I &#8220;waste&#8221; time there &#8212; no amount of minutes or hours are enough to soak in the wonderful contributions there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really eager to see what the future holds for Kevin. From what time I have been able to spend playing around with Ficlets, I can tell he&#8217;s a hugely talented Rails developer. He&#8217;s gotten an opportunity to lead a team with a small company to build Rails apps, and I wish him the best. I only hope that Ficlets is allowed to continue in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations, Kevin! I will be watching your <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kplawver\">Twitter stream<\/a> in earnest to see where you land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site Ficlets, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a tweet earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent blog post on Ficlets. Kevin built an absolutely amazing site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[577,158,425,289,92,578,300],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-aol","tag-development","tag-ficlets","tag-happenings","tag-internet","tag-kevin-lawver","tag-software","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}