Had a great time at the http://ur1.ca/9vbq0 hackathon this weekend. Wrote Heartbeat, a timeseries monitoring API, along with Randall Leeds. As two self-proclaimed backend engineers, we managed to do nothing but client-side JS. Hah! One of the funniest moments was when we were asking for help on how to use the Streaming API with CORS, so we wouldn't have to poll the API a shitload for our real-ti…