Rael Dornfest is an American

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and author. He was a Technical Fellow and CTO of Charity: Water, and was previously an engineer at

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. He was Founder and

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of Values of N, creator of "I Want Sandy" and "Stikkit: Little Yellow Notes that Think." Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer at

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. He began working for Twitter after they bought the assets of his company Values of N. He led the RSS-DEV Working Group, which authored

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1.0 and is the author of Blosxom, a lightweight

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-based publishing system. He was Series Editor of O’Reilly's ''Hacks'' series, and has co-authored a number of books including '' Google Hacks'' (), ''Mac OS X Panther Hacks'' (), and ''Google: The Missing Manual'' ().

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@rael
- Twitter page
Rael Dornfest
- Author bio at O'Reilly

- Article by Dornfest for

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