Misha Dynin

I write on Twitter (often), on Blogger (much less often), and on LiveJournal (in Russian—almost never these days.)  I post pictures on Flickr.  I also have accounts on FriendFeed, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

About

I live and work in San Francisco Bay Area (that sounds better than "I live and work in Mountain View").  My primary professional interest is computer software as a medium for human communication.

I grew up in Russia and moved to California after high school.  California definitely has the edge when it comes to weather.  I especially enjoyed living and studying in Berkeley, except for the parking problem.  (It can be argued, however, that the function of the latter is to create an incentive for doing research that would win a Nobel Prize.)

Contact

You can reach me by sending a message to

Writing

Coming soon.

Code

Most of the code I wrote to date I can't share, although I want to fix that.  I was an engineer on the teams that developed and maintained Blogger and Google Reader.  Sometimes I write funny code.

Design

One of my hobbies is to come up with novel visual ways to interact with information.  My clock design combines the advantages of a digital display and an analog dial.  Here is a weather forecast visualization that communicates a lot more infromation than "sun and clouds" pictures.

Quote

My favorite quote is the Inventor's Paradox by George Pólya:  The more ambitious plan may have more chances of success.

Thanks for visiting!  If you want to receive updates, following me on Twitter is likely to work best.  If you link to me, please use http://mishadynin.com/, as the set of protocols I actively use is likely to evolve.