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Failing Well: Managing Risk in Web Applications 2 Aug 2013 | 03:17 am
When I talk about risk as it relates to web applications, people usually assume I’m talking about hardening applications from hackers, spammers and other ne’er-do-wells. While malicious attacks are ab...
Fitbit One vs Fitbit Flex: Which is Better? (An Experiment) 17 Jul 2013 | 10:11 am
I’ve been on a Fitbit kick for a few months now, and have spent quite a bit of time getting to know the Fitbit One, which I really love. After I lost my second one, however, I started to think that ma...
Make or Buy The Internet from “The IT Crowd” 6 Jul 2013 | 07:43 am
If you’re a fan of The IT Crowd, you’ve probably fantasized about playing the same trick on your co-workers as Roy and Moss play on Jen. The good news is, now you can. Working in IT is amazing and fu...
Introducing Gender Shenanigans (Plus Free Bonus Rant!) 19 May 2013 | 12:07 pm
The internet is fucking amazing. I’m sure you already knew that, but the gravity of just how fucking awesome it is smacked me across the face this week in a way it hasn’t in a long time. Four days ago...
Wordify for OSX Makes Fun Word Art Out of Photos 19 May 2013 | 05:24 am
Wordify is a fun little OSX app that takes any photo from your hard drive and converts it into word art (like in the header image above). It’s a single-purpose app that does what it says, but with a f...
My Week in Tech 11 May 2013 | 01:47 am
This is the first of what I hope will be a recurring feature. Once a week, I will write a blog post that covers things I’ve learned and links I’ve found. Hopefully it doesn’t suck, and hopefully I can...
Thoughts on GitHub Giving Free Private Repos to Women 29 Apr 2013 | 01:29 am
I am not going to turn this into a rant. I have a lot of strong opinions on the Women in Tech issue, but I’m keeping the scope of this limited to the fact that GitHub now offers a free private repo to...
Use a Custom Script to Automatically Email the Submission Contents of a Google Form 26 Apr 2013 | 10:22 pm
My company is in the awkward phase of small-transitioning-to-medium-sized. This means we’re small enough to not need (or want to spend money on) huge enterprise-class systems, but big enough to need t...
Using Multiple Github Deploy Keys for a Single User on a Single Linux Server 11 Apr 2013 | 10:48 pm
I’m a big fan of GitHub (and was a fan of Sourceforge back when it was what all the cool kids were using), but there’s one limitation that I’ve run into a few times that can be very frustrating, and t...
Sending Mail Using PHP and Amazon SES on Centos/AWS Linux 27 Mar 2013 | 12:12 pm
If you find yourself using Amazon SES for sending outgoing emails in a PHP web app, getting everything set up is much simpler than it may seem. In my case, this was on an AWS Linux image, but it will ...
