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  • Feb 24, 2023

    Running Jekyll static site on Hatchbox

  • May 6, 2022

    A great technical/programmer interview question? (Also: how to update all your Route53 registry contacts)

  • Jan 8, 2022

    Cloudflare free DNS 1.1.1.1 is VERY slow to update nameservers

  • Jun 26, 2021

    A 12-year-old Firefox bug that will convince you to switch to Chrome

  • Jun 18, 2021

    Oops, HBO? Using REAL user emails in your internal software testing?

  • Jun 16, 2021

    Getting Rails 6 ActionMailer to send emails via an explicit ActiveJob (so you can specify Job behavior)

  • Jun 15, 2021

    Stopping Logentries High Response Time alerts that are due to normal Actioncable behavior

  • Mar 29, 2021

    The quickest & easiest way to develop AWS Lambda functions that use Ruby gems

  • Mar 22, 2021

    Why I’ll skip the J&J vaccine and wait for one of the “better” ones

  • Mar 22, 2021

    Autonomous Vehicles as “Bad Actors”

  • Feb 27, 2021

    Enjoying Cafe du Monde Coffee and Chicory via a Moka Pot

  • Feb 11, 2021

    Finally, an “IRL Cat Filter”

  • Jan 24, 2021

    Applecare for iPhone Stupidly Expensive

  • Jan 21, 2021

    Become an Artist After Just One Sip

  • Jan 20, 2021

    A “Bumpy Period,” the understated British called it

  • Jan 19, 2021

    Facebook having a “VP of Integrity” is about as 1984 as it gets

  • Jan 18, 2021

    A hundred years before BLM — was wondering if you could do light house-keeping

  • Dec 31, 2020

    Target Disk Mode has improved (Benchmark 2019/2020 Intel Macs)

  • Oct 16, 2020

    Yet another Venmo dark pattern (TL;DR ridiculously high transaction limits you cannot set lower)

  • Apr 21, 2020

    Does Amazon now use bare-all pictures for multi-factor authentication? [humor]

  • Jan 27, 2020

    Solved: 2019 Macbook Pro / Apple Thunderbolt Display issue

  • Nov 1, 2019

    Apple Watch “Stupid-ass” Links (not smart at all)

  • Oct 4, 2019

    Another great support feature ruined by marketing assholes (GoDaddy)

  • Sep 22, 2019

    When you use those cheap overseas web developers, double-down on Testing

  • Jul 9, 2019

    A book review the algorithm-centric nazi bastards at Amazon rejected

  • Apr 30, 2019

    Canceled Consumer Reports Because of TrueCar

  • Mar 8, 2019

    OWC: “own it” when you ship a broken item

  • Mar 4, 2019

    Macbook Pro 2013/Sierra as fast as Macbook Pro 2018/Mohave for Rspec/Docker/Rails Dev

  • Feb 21, 2019

    Why I disabled WordPress Gutenberg

  • Feb 21, 2019

    Just don’t even think about buying a Fitbit Versa

  • Feb 21, 2019

    HemmorrAndroids even more painful than IOS

  • Jan 22, 2019

    Making Heroku CI (almost) as fast as running Rspec locally

  • Jan 21, 2019

    Heroku Deploys via Github are not faster than using git push

  • Jan 21, 2019

    Heroku CI is remarkably slow, but half as slow if you use the largest dyno type

  • Jan 5, 2019

    4 Most Remarkable Shortcomings of Apple Watch Series 4 (e.g., why I returned it)

  • Feb 11, 2018

    How to allow two Vagrant apps to talk to each other

  • Dec 14, 2017

    JibJab irresponsibly, ineptly, and possibly illegally blasts ecards

  • Nov 28, 2017

    For healthcare plans, Bronze is less expensive except in a narrow range of care usage

  • Nov 10, 2017

    Never name (or draw faces on) veggies you plan to eat

  • Oct 22, 2017

    Remove your GPS location EXIF geotags from IOS videos before sharing them

  • Jul 30, 2017

    IMO fatal flaws — OrchestraOne practice management for therapists

  • Jul 30, 2017

    IMO fatal flaws — Theranest practice management for therapists

  • May 15, 2017

    Why IMO using FreshSales CRM could be hazardous to your business

  • Feb 1, 2017

    “We’re not UPS.”

  • Jan 12, 2017

    A Dlink Camera iPhone/iPad workaround for error 0.70 &...

  • Jul 7, 2016

    Dear Marvel, the character name you are looking for is “Irony”. You’re welcome.

  • Jun 4, 2016

    Solving [DEPRECATION] last_comment is deprecated when upgrading to rails 4.2.6

  • Apr 22, 2016

    Microsoft still not afraid to bait and switch IMO

  • Feb 28, 2016

    An example of when ‘digital’ means ‘inferior’ and ‘wasteful’

  • Dec 1, 2015

    All Of Your American Express Extended Warranties will Evaporate when Costco Switches to Visa

  • Nov 29, 2015

    Ghost (Still) Sucks as a Blog.

  • Nov 26, 2015

    Highly recommended: site-by-site cookie cleanup for Macs using Cookie

  • Oct 28, 2015

    To Speed up the First Time Machine Backup, Don’t Stop and Resume!

  • Oct 26, 2015

    Recover User Data When Mac’s Filevault2 Won’t Boot

  • Feb 20, 2015

    How to fix Time Machine when it confuses multiple backup drives

  • Jan 20, 2015

    If IE8 is displaying all Bootstrap columns full-width, here’s the fix

  • Jan 19, 2015

    Getting Glyphicons to work with static Bootstrap 3 CSS and Rails 3.2

  • Jan 14, 2015

    We’re a fan — Filepicker.io

  • Dec 20, 2014

    Create a Lightroom 5 custom import preset to organize photos into year-month (YYYY-MM)

  • Nov 1, 2014

    When using heroku toolbelt, use git remote name instead of app name

  • Apr 9, 2014

    How to specify Fancybox2 options to manually open() a box (the docs are wrong)

  • Apr 1, 2014

    Apple begins enforcing iDeal, demanding revenue split for deals discussed using iPhone

  • Mar 4, 2014

    Microsoft, please stop being such a whiny bitch

  • Dec 31, 2013

    Zerigo sets perfect example of how not to raise rates on prepaid plans

  • Dec 14, 2013

    Getting S3Object.exists? to work correctly with IAM policies

  • Dec 12, 2013

    Avoid “rate limit” errors when Geocoding in a Heroku app, using QuotaGuard add-on

  • Sep 22, 2013

    Easiest workaround for Mac’s intermittent ‘disappearing cursor’ bug

  • Mar 23, 2013

    The quick, easy, free way to send mail-merged email from a Mac

  • Jan 6, 2013

    Managing multiple Heroku accounts with heroku-accounts plugin

  • Jan 6, 2013

    Getting RSpec, Postgres, DatabaseCleaner to play nicely together

  • Jan 3, 2013

    Rspec gotcha — instance variables are not cleared between ‘get’s

  • Dec 13, 2012

    ActiveRecord find_each ignores any order() criteria

  • Nov 28, 2012

    I hereby nominate Baking Soda as the “Duct tape for Home Hygiene”

  • Oct 15, 2012

    Quick guide to multiple heroku accounts, and moving apps between them

  • Oct 3, 2012

    How to specify traits for model associations in FactoryGirl

  • Sep 21, 2012

    Getting Rmagick to work again

  • Sep 18, 2012

    Still half-baked for SMS texting: Toktumi Line2

  • Sep 4, 2012

    Favorite online regex wizard (so far)

  • Sep 3, 2012

    A subtle problem with using update_attributes in Rails migrations

  • Aug 28, 2012

    ActiveRecord .count and .length are different when .group

  • Aug 23, 2012

    Setting the default time zone for a Heroku app

  • Aug 18, 2012

    Using those fantastic Apple Cube USB Speakers with a MacBook Pro under Lion

  • Aug 12, 2012

    Finding a decent editor for Rails

  • Aug 11, 2012

    Rails apps can send from multiple SMTP accounts

  • Aug 3, 2012

    Example of an ethical annual credit card renewal: kudos to Vimeo

  • Aug 2, 2012

    My favorite Ruby thing this week: when *my_array

  • Jul 31, 2012

    Pure, unadulterated, geek testosterone

  • Jul 29, 2012

    How to migrate from Heroku Shared-database to Dev or Basic Postgres

  • Jul 26, 2012

    “An Inconvenient Truth, Hawaiian edition”

  • Jul 8, 2012

    Cheesy nickel and diming for project privacy at crowdspring

  • Jun 7, 2012

    Loyalmobs adds new “VIP Texting Club” capability with 1 cent/message pricing

  • Jun 7, 2012

    Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead&...

  • May 31, 2012

    Ipad-friendly version of Twitter bootstrap popover

  • May 24, 2012

    A tip when users need to send a code in SMS messages — use numbers

  • Apr 30, 2012

    Efax doesn’t support Intel Macs

  • Apr 16, 2012

    Virgin Mobile MiFi personal hotspot great for demos

  • Apr 16, 2012

    Migrating a WordPress blog to Heroku

  • Apr 4, 2012

    Why my company doesn’t send automated email from a ‘noreply’ address

  • Apr 1, 2012

    Rails 3.1: Enumerated_attribute breaks scaffolding (easy fix)

  • Mar 28, 2012

    UX gripe #237: politically correct ‘what country are you from’ dropdown menus

  • Mar 22, 2012

    Western Digital My Book Live beats Seagate GoFlex hands down

  • Mar 11, 2012

    Side effect in simple_form can break phone number input on iphone

  • Mar 4, 2012

    ActiveAdmin breaks Twitter Bootcamp popovers (perhaps more)

  • Mar 3, 2012

    How to see all released versions of a gem

  • Mar 1, 2012

    FPDF requires ZLib if images are not flattened

  • Mar 1, 2012

    Hosting PHP apps at Heroku, with caveat

  • Jan 24, 2012

    Migrating a Windows XP Pro ‘OEM’ PC to Parallels Desktop 7 (step-by-step)

  • Jan 19, 2012

    Specifying a :target when using link_to with Rails 3.1

  • Jan 19, 2012

    getting rails 3.1 + carrierwave + S3 + heroku working

  • Jan 18, 2012

    Getting ActiveAdmin and web-app-themes to work with Rail 3.1 at Heroku

  • Jan 10, 2012

    VRBO ought to take a page from Airbnb’s UX

  • Jan 7, 2012

    Bandaid cure for new Hugo Boss jacket

  • Jan 7, 2012

    How to cancel ATT on Ipad w/o losing current billing cycle

  • Jan 7, 2012

    Netflix bandwidth usage on Ipad 3G is 3.75 MB/minute

  • Nov 28, 2011

    Origin — Tennis (best Monday morning song ever)

  • Nov 12, 2011

    Hack: How to switch DNS painlessly from Godaddy to Zerigo

  • Oct 30, 2011

    How to make Godaddy DNS bulletproof with DnsUnlimited as backup

  • Oct 19, 2011

    Ever wish you could have your work caller ID show up when you use your personal phone?

  • Sep 28, 2011

    How I became an art expert, in one squirt

  • Sep 14, 2011

    Hack: Whither the fax number? (How to cut your Efax bill 60% or more)

  • Sep 1, 2011

    Loyalmobs renamed Buzzbeeper

  • Aug 9, 2011

    Tips for biking the Hiawatha trail

  • Jul 12, 2011

    Texting overtakes voice+web as the new “voice” of US consumers

  • Jul 7, 2011

    Remembering a Gentleman VC, Jos Henkens

  • Jun 30, 2011

    When cache is king

  • Jun 20, 2011

    Why they call it “white” water rafting

  • Jun 1, 2011

    Using Heroku ENV config vars with Settings.yml

  • Jun 1, 2011

    My favorite guerilla marketing story (so far)

  • May 17, 2011

    Multiple subdomains, multiple apps in Heroku

  • May 8, 2011

    Hack: Roasting peppers w/o open flame

  • May 2, 2011

    Hack: “Best Thing Since Sliced Bread 2.0” — Twilio Twimlets (simple business phone receptionist for $1/month)

  • Apr 29, 2011

    Buzzbeeper.com is open for business

  • Apr 28, 2011

    “Baba Pardner’s Yoga-in-a-cup Chai”

  • Apr 26, 2011

    Adding SSL to an app hosted at Heroku

  • Apr 19, 2011

    A haiku for heroku

  • Apr 19, 2011

    Someday we may fail to find the images we need on istockphoto. But not today.

  • Apr 18, 2011

    Web CSS templates that did not disappoint&... Templateworld.com

  • Apr 18, 2011

    Great support from a surprising corner: Godaddy

  • Apr 17, 2011

    Lemons to lemonade when the airline strands you

  • Apr 17, 2011

    Outsourcing success tidbits

  • Apr 17, 2011

    IMO Tropo not ready for prime time. Went with Twilio.

  • Apr 17, 2011

    Carriage ride in Central Park, $90. Time with daughter, priceless.

  • Apr 17, 2011

    Moving content from Facebook to here

  • Apr 17, 2011

    What’s in a name?

  • Apr 15, 2011

    Befluent, a complete phone-based learning system, for grins

  • Apr 1, 2011

    NY Times today outs me as founder of the nation’s largest street corner begging franchise

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