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My "smart keyword" searches in Firefox 3 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Woah it's been a long time since I last blogged. Busy times. So here you go with a casual Firefox tip: One of my favorite "hidden" features in Firefox are "smart keywords". Essentially, you write a k...
Add-on Notifications Are Hard 15 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Over the years, I have written a handful of Firefox add-ons, and I need notifications quite frequently. Why? Most of my add-ons do something in the background at the user's request, and when it's done...
imagetwist 1.1 now twists even harder 14 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
I just released a new version of imagetwist! Everyone's favorite image rotation add-on can now apply EXIF-based "auto-rotation" to any image on a page. Also, if you want to go back to the original im...
Say Hello to wenzel.io 9 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
The other day, I made a thing: Say hello to my new project playground called wenzel.io! Over the years, I've been publishing a number of open source projects of varying size, and for a long time now...
Thank Heavens for Warning Labels 29 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
You know, I sure am happy America has figured out its warning labels. Hailing from a country where not every purchase comes wrapped in two layers of fine print, I didn't know what I was missing out o...
imagetwist, an add-on rotating images according to their EXIF data 23 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
Ever so often, friends send me emails with pictures they took on their phones. When looking at the photo, it frequently appears turned on its side, like this: A little research revealed that cameras ...
Boogie Board, an LCD-powered chalkboard 29 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
Last week, I went to a toy store to buy some gifts, where I discoverd something really cool: A "boogie board". It's essentially a very thin touch-screen LCD display that comes with a stylus so you ca...
Not Every Problem is a "First-World Problem", or Chilling Effects of Social Pressure 29 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
There's a semi-funny Internet meme called "first world problems", here is an example: They idea is that it's a whiny statement (fishing for empathy, perhaps) that expresses an outrageous level of ent...
6 Rules for Hiring Great People 21 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
By now, I have helped hire a few dozen people (web developers, mostly, but also database admins, recruiters, QA engineers, and such) and I really enjoy when my assessments were right and they turn out...
Recruiters from Hell 18 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
I am grateful that my skill set is apparently a scarce commodity -- so much so that I routinely get emails from recruiters trying to get me interested into their respective employers / clients. So far...
