Using version control even as lone developer

Jan 25, 2012. Despite the fact that I am the only developer for my personal projects, using Github is still a tremendous time saver, and it provides a sense of clarity that the old approach could not.
Filed under: Programming

Spamming your best customers

Jan 19, 2012. I have been a loyal Capital One credit card user (always pay my bill on time) for at least a decade now, and yet I receive constant email and postal mail spam from them.
Filed under: Spam | 1 comment

Generic social networking API

Jan 18, 2012. Social network *API* fragmentation causes developers to learn a new set of syntax and logic for every social network they want to push to or pull data from.
Filed under: Programming, Social Networks

JavaScript event propagation and jQuery

Jan 11, 2012. With jQuery it's as simple as binding the desired events to the element, and propagation is handled the way you'd like.
Filed under: Programming

More about social network fragmentation

Jan 07, 2012. What if there was a way to remain social but not be a part of any particular social network? To have a public profile but not require an account, or web server?
Filed under: Social Networks, Internet

Connecting to multiple GitHub accounts on Windows

Jan 04, 2012. Attempting to access multiple GitHub.com accounts from Windows using Pageant.
Filed under: Technical

Connecting to multiple GitHub accounts from the same server

Dec 30, 2011. I need to be able to authorize myself (via SSH keys) to either GitHub.com account (and repositories within) on a per-directory basis, all on the same server.
Filed under: Technical

TwitWipe - wipe out past tweets and start fresh

Dec 23, 2011. Who wouldn't want to clear out embarrassing or obnoxious drunk tweets from years ago sitting in Twitter's database, and possibly Google's search index?
Filed under: Social Networks

Automatic sharing

Dec 23, 2011. It seems we're moving towards a world of seamless, transparent social sharing, where updates happen in the background as a result of our actions, as opposed to us manually triggering updates to occur.
Filed under: Social Networks

Thoughts on Dexter season 6 finale

Dec 20, 2011. Perhaps Dexter's "dark passenger" is just what Dex and Deb need to become closer, on a level no viewer could foresee happening.
Filed under: Reviews, Television

Avoiding top search results

Dec 16, 2011. I am purposely looking for *less*-optimized sites because I know they'll be more reader-friendly.
Filed under: Search

Humorous programming comments

Dec 15, 2011. Over the years I've seen lots of humorous programming comments, often left by past or current co-workers.
Filed under: Programming, Humor

Spotify playlist mania

Dec 14, 2011. My problem is that I have trouble sorting (in my head) how I prefer to listen to current favorites, and past favorites, while maintaining a genre classification for different moods.
Filed under: Software, Music

Words are UI

Dec 13, 2011. Twitter's labels/tabs are not specific and Twitter-esque enough.
Filed under: Social Networks, Usability

With Google, the fun in arguing facts has diminished

Dec 12, 2011. Google has completely taken the fun out of arguing facts.
Filed under: Random