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A great technical/programmer interview question? (Also: how to update all your Route53 registry contacts)
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Cloudflare free DNS 1.1.1.1 is VERY slow to update nameservers
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A 12-year-old Firefox bug that will convince you to switch to Chrome
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Oops, HBO? Using REAL user emails in your internal software testing?
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Getting Rails 6 ActionMailer to send emails via an explicit ActiveJob (so you can specify Job behavior)
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Stopping Logentries High Response Time alerts that are due to normal Actioncable behavior
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The quickest & easiest way to develop AWS Lambda functions that use Ruby gems
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Why I’ll skip the J&J vaccine and wait for one of the “better” ones
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Autonomous Vehicles as “Bad Actors”
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Enjoying Cafe du Monde Coffee and Chicory via a Moka Pot
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Finally, an “IRL Cat Filter”
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Applecare for iPhone Stupidly Expensive
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Become an Artist After Just One Sip
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A “Bumpy Period,” the understated British called it
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Facebook having a “VP of Integrity” is about as 1984 as it gets
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A hundred years before BLM — was wondering if you could do light house-keeping
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Target Disk Mode has improved (Benchmark 2019/2020 Intel Macs)
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Yet another Venmo dark pattern (TL;DR ridiculously high transaction limits you cannot set lower)
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Does Amazon now use bare-all pictures for multi-factor authentication? [humor]
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Solved: 2019 Macbook Pro / Apple Thunderbolt Display issue
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Apple Watch “Stupid-ass” Links (not smart at all)
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Another great support feature ruined by marketing assholes (GoDaddy)
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When you use those cheap overseas web developers, double-down on Testing
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A book review the algorithm-centric nazi bastards at Amazon rejected
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Canceled Consumer Reports Because of TrueCar
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OWC: “own it” when you ship a broken item
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Macbook Pro 2013/Sierra as fast as Macbook Pro 2018/Mohave for Rspec/Docker/Rails Dev
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Why I disabled WordPress Gutenberg
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Just don’t even think about buying a Fitbit Versa
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HemmorrAndroids even more painful than IOS
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Making Heroku CI (almost) as fast as running Rspec locally
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Heroku Deploys via Github are not faster than using git push
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Heroku CI is remarkably slow, but half as slow if you use the largest dyno type
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4 Most Remarkable Shortcomings of Apple Watch Series 4 (e.g., why I returned it)
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How to allow two Vagrant apps to talk to each other
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JibJab irresponsibly, ineptly, and possibly illegally blasts ecards
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For healthcare plans, Bronze is less expensive except in a narrow range of care usage
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Never name (or draw faces on) veggies you plan to eat
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Remove your GPS location EXIF geotags from IOS videos before sharing them
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IMO fatal flaws — OrchestraOne practice management for therapists
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IMO fatal flaws — Theranest practice management for therapists
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Why IMO using FreshSales CRM could be hazardous to your business
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“We’re not UPS.”
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A Dlink Camera iPhone/iPad workaround for error 0.70 &...
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Dear Marvel, the character name you are looking for is “Irony”. You’re welcome.
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Solving [DEPRECATION] last_comment is deprecated when upgrading to rails 4.2.6
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Microsoft still not afraid to bait and switch IMO
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An example of when ‘digital’ means ‘inferior’ and ‘wasteful’
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All Of Your American Express Extended Warranties will Evaporate when Costco Switches to Visa
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Ghost (Still) Sucks as a Blog.
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Highly recommended: site-by-site cookie cleanup for Macs using Cookie
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To Speed up the First Time Machine Backup, Don’t Stop and Resume!
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Recover User Data When Mac’s Filevault2 Won’t Boot
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How to fix Time Machine when it confuses multiple backup drives
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If IE8 is displaying all Bootstrap columns full-width, here’s the fix
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Getting Glyphicons to work with static Bootstrap 3 CSS and Rails 3.2
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We’re a fan — Filepicker.io
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Create a Lightroom 5 custom import preset to organize photos into year-month (YYYY-MM)
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When using heroku toolbelt, use git remote name instead of app name
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How to specify Fancybox2 options to manually open() a box (the docs are wrong)
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Apple begins enforcing iDeal, demanding revenue split for deals discussed using iPhone
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Microsoft, please stop being such a whiny bitch
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Zerigo sets perfect example of how not to raise rates on prepaid plans
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Getting S3Object.exists? to work correctly with IAM policies
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Avoid “rate limit” errors when Geocoding in a Heroku app, using QuotaGuard add-on
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Easiest workaround for Mac’s intermittent ‘disappearing cursor’ bug
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The quick, easy, free way to send mail-merged email from a Mac
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Managing multiple Heroku accounts with heroku-accounts plugin
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Getting RSpec, Postgres, DatabaseCleaner to play nicely together
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Rspec gotcha — instance variables are not cleared between ‘get’s
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ActiveRecord find_each ignores any order() criteria
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I hereby nominate Baking Soda as the “Duct tape for Home Hygiene”
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Quick guide to multiple heroku accounts, and moving apps between them
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How to specify traits for model associations in FactoryGirl
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Getting Rmagick to work again
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Still half-baked for SMS texting: Toktumi Line2
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Favorite online regex wizard (so far)
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A subtle problem with using update_attributes in Rails migrations
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ActiveRecord .count and .length are different when .group
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Setting the default time zone for a Heroku app
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Using those fantastic Apple Cube USB Speakers with a MacBook Pro under Lion
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Finding a decent editor for Rails
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Rails apps can send from multiple SMTP accounts
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Example of an ethical annual credit card renewal: kudos to Vimeo
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My favorite Ruby thing this week: when *my_array
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Pure, unadulterated, geek testosterone
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How to migrate from Heroku Shared-database to Dev or Basic Postgres
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“An Inconvenient Truth, Hawaiian edition”
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Cheesy nickel and diming for project privacy at crowdspring
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Loyalmobs adds new “VIP Texting Club” capability with 1 cent/message pricing
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Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead&...
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Ipad-friendly version of Twitter bootstrap popover
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A tip when users need to send a code in SMS messages — use numbers
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Efax doesn’t support Intel Macs
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Virgin Mobile MiFi personal hotspot great for demos
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Migrating a WordPress blog to Heroku
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Why my company doesn’t send automated email from a ‘noreply’ address
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Rails 3.1: Enumerated_attribute breaks scaffolding (easy fix)
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UX gripe #237: politically correct ‘what country are you from’ dropdown menus
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Western Digital My Book Live beats Seagate GoFlex hands down
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Side effect in simple_form can break phone number input on iphone
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ActiveAdmin breaks Twitter Bootcamp popovers (perhaps more)
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How to see all released versions of a gem
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FPDF requires ZLib if images are not flattened
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Hosting PHP apps at Heroku, with caveat
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Migrating a Windows XP Pro ‘OEM’ PC to Parallels Desktop 7 (step-by-step)
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Specifying a :target when using link_to with Rails 3.1
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getting rails 3.1 + carrierwave + S3 + heroku working
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Getting ActiveAdmin and web-app-themes to work with Rail 3.1 at Heroku
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VRBO ought to take a page from Airbnb’s UX
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Bandaid cure for new Hugo Boss jacket
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How to cancel ATT on Ipad w/o losing current billing cycle
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Netflix bandwidth usage on Ipad 3G is 3.75 MB/minute
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Origin — Tennis (best Monday morning song ever)
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Hack: How to switch DNS painlessly from Godaddy to Zerigo
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How to make Godaddy DNS bulletproof with DnsUnlimited as backup
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Ever wish you could have your work caller ID show up when you use your personal phone?
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How I became an art expert, in one squirt
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Hack: Whither the fax number? (How to cut your Efax bill 60% or more)
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Loyalmobs renamed Buzzbeeper
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Tips for biking the Hiawatha trail
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Texting overtakes voice+web as the new “voice” of US consumers
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Remembering a Gentleman VC, Jos Henkens
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When cache is king
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Why they call it “white” water rafting
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Using Heroku ENV config vars with Settings.yml
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My favorite guerilla marketing story (so far)
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Multiple subdomains, multiple apps in Heroku
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Hack: Roasting peppers w/o open flame
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Hack: “Best Thing Since Sliced Bread 2.0” — Twilio Twimlets (simple business phone receptionist for $1/month)
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Buzzbeeper.com is open for business
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“Baba Pardner’s Yoga-in-a-cup Chai”
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Adding SSL to an app hosted at Heroku
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A haiku for heroku
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Someday we may fail to find the images we need on istockphoto. But not today.
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Web CSS templates that did not disappoint&... Templateworld.com
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Great support from a surprising corner: Godaddy
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Lemons to lemonade when the airline strands you
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Outsourcing success tidbits
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IMO Tropo not ready for prime time. Went with Twilio.
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Carriage ride in Central Park, $90. Time with daughter, priceless.
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Moving content from Facebook to here
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What’s in a name?
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Befluent, a complete phone-based learning system, for grins
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NY Times today outs me as founder of the nation’s largest street corner begging franchise