Patrick Collison

InTrade Private Equity Conference 2009.

Post-debugging woes circa 1993.

Contact

• Email: patrick@.ie
• Also @patrickc on Twitter, @pc on GitHub.

I live in San Francisco, California.

Things I've worked on

• I'm currently working on Stripe.
• I studied mathematics at MIT.
• I cofounded Auctomatic. The company was acquired in 2008.
• I wrote Encyclopedia, which stores a copy of Wikipedia on an iPhone and iPad. It's now available in the App Store in around 80 languages. More interestingly, Chris Ball ported it to the OLPC. I think it's been distributed on around 250,000 XO-1 laptops.

Minor bits of code

In case someone finds them useful.

• Common Lisp bindings for Thrift. (I also write Smalltalk bindings, which are now in the core distribution.)
• Undop (blog post)
• iPhone API Explorer (blog post)
• Hack to enable pictures in a SLIME REPL (blog post)
• Dynamic Default.png files for iPhone (blog post)
• Time warp (blog post)
• Cloudgrep
• Getting Genera running on OS X
• GC.heap_find() on ruby 1.8.7-p174
• diff git branches under zsh

Words

Occasionally-updated blog. I think these are my favorite posts:

• Start-up surprises
• Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API
• Lisp Machines
• Debuggers considered harmful?
• LL1 highlights
• Auctomatic's first job post

Quotes, reading log.

PGP

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