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I'm Marco Arment. I make useful websites in New York.

I'm the lead developer of Tumblr, the publishing community that powers this site. The opinions I express here are my own and not those of my employer.

I created Instapaper for saving web pages to read later.

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Here's my RSS feed. I had it only in the autodetect <link>, but I kept getting emails from people who couldn't find it.
Bill Israel made this theme, but then I hacked it, and I haven't tested it in IE.

May 23 2008 ∞

“ If you’re curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.

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What it takes to run Slashdot (via caseyliss).

I’d love to know what they need all of that power to do, exactly. That could host a significant portion of Wikipedia’s traffic…

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