The OkCupid Dev Who Built a Hack to Get Taylor Swift Tickets

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. On Tuesday morning, Ruben Martinez Jr. was staring at his computer screen, calculating his chances. He was on a group chat trying to strategize the best way to score Taylor Swift tickets, and it was looking bleak. Everyone seemed to have 2,000-plus people ahead of them in line. Martinez, a software engineer at OkCupid, checked the browser developer tools to see if he could figure out his actual place in the queue. He thought he could find a percentage for how far back he was.