Speeding up my Mac: Web Browsers and the RAM They Use
If speed’s what we want, why test RAM usage? I’m interested in how all my apps perform, not just the web browser. The Mac is smart and will use every extra leftover bit of RAM to speed everything up....
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An attorney friend asked me how to identify a blogger or possibly get their “ip address.” My answer: This is difficult to do, but it’s an interesting question. There are two main ways to write a blog:...
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Amazon AWS in pictures: ec2 billing options
Today’s announcement adds to the alphabet soup of Amazon’s AWS offerings. Here’s my first draft at diagramming the billing side: Amazon AWS EC2 Billing Options I’m a fan of AWS, but there is definitely...
View ArticleFIRST do a trademark search, THEN start using your mark
Michael Atkins, Seattle Trademark Lawyer: It’s good Bluebox Now was able to solve its problem and move on. It’s just too bad it had to suffer through what I imagine were at least a few stressful days...
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The Hidden Dangers of Beautiful Themes
A Tale of Seduction and Betrayal Some of the best-designed and officially featured WordPress themes aren’t built to handle mid-volume traffic. Just one incoming link from a semi-popular page can take...
View ArticleThis Month’s Reading List: Nonprofit Governance
Nonprofit Governance and Management, Cheryl Sorokin Guidebook for Directors of Nonprofit Corporations, ABA Committee on Nonprofit Corporations Representing the Nonprofit Organization, Marilyn Phelan...
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My Problem with Git: No Abstraction
Git is powerful, and Github is its killer app. I use them for all my projects. That being said, Git is more difficult than it ought to be, but until now I couldn’t put my finger on why I was doing some...
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Attach images to Github issues with Skitch
I just found a decent solution to something I’ve wanted for a while: the ability to place an image in a Github issue’s description or comment. Here’s the final result. The actual issue, live on Github....
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Getting Baskerville on a website – price and licensing options
Left: Baskerville. Right: Baskerville. Web fonts are an interesting mix of technology and intellectual property licensing. I’m almost surprised that we, as a culture, have managed to pull it off,...
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Chart: The best value for processor-intensive tasks on Amazon Web Services
After a full day doing exaustive real-world tests, I was surprised to find that the “High-CPU Medium” EC2 instance type is the best value for my work. I have a lot of interesting data to post, but...
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Simple Tabs in AngularJS with AngularStrap
AngularStrap is a nice library for bringing Twitter Bootstrap into AngularJS. The idea is to make the Bootstrap features, like tabs, easy to use and control from Angular. However, AngularStrap...
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Confessions of an Architecture Astronaut — Taking a Lesson from Napster
Twelve Years Later, Joel Spolsky’s early posts are still relevant. Browse through his posts circa 2001 and you’ll find a ton that are still amazingly relevant (and not just the Joel Test): Your typical...
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Meteor Won’t Kill Rails Anytime Soon
This is in response to Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails. A pretty big claim, for sure. Now, Meteor is worth checking out, but Josh didn’t name any of the reasons why I and a whole lot of others...
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Lil’ Kim infringed copyright, claims Redditor
How important is it to make sure you have the right to use your assets in the way you intend? This isn’t the kind of publicity an artist wants for a new song: The rage is over Lil Kim’s cover image for...
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Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby
https://thunderboltlabs.com/blog/2013/11/19/efficiency-with-sublime-text-and-ruby/ An excellent set of core ST tips. I learned a couple really handy things even though I’ve been using Sublime Text for...
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It is supremely important that we ensure our data is safe. . .
. . . it is supremely important that we ensure our data is safe, consistent and reliable. We can dramatically increase these factors by taking full advantage of the tools at hand. Yes. This is the most...
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37signals is Intelligent Times Ten
Their new #WorkCanWait campaign is brilliant humor as well as brilliant marketing. Microsoft Office 365 competes with 37signals’ services. Original Office 365 Ad 37signals’ Remake The #WorkCanWait...
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WordPress.com vs. managed WordPress hosting
There are some well known “managed WordPress” platforms like Page.ly and WP Engine. And the reviews I’ve seen compare running a WordPress instance yourself vs. using one of these. But wordpress.com is...
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Yes, Rails does support case-insensitive queries
It’s unfortunately just a little buried and a little undocumented. And so conventional wisdom is that Rails doesn’t do case-insensitive finds. But in fact it does: Example 1 Find all the statutes whose...
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“There are two kinds of websites: the quick and the dead.”
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-feature.html
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