This looks handy for browsing and as a lightweight developer tool. (thanks One Thing Well)

This is pretty darn awesome. (thanks Steve)

I only started using this today, but it appears to do what it says: eject externals drives before sleep and re-mount them on wake. Very handy if you have a laptop plus external drive set-up like I do.

(thanks One Thing Well)

A thoughtful post about a situation that sounds like a real mess for everyone involved.

Opening 8 months ahead of schedule, the West Rail Line is also on budget.

Now that’s not something you see everyday! I live west of downtown Denver and I’m excited to have a public transit option available to me soon.

This is brilliant! A great illustration of how hard feed parsing is.

I could care less about this sort of pedantry.

I couldn’t care less about this sort of pedantry.

Please remember, though, that there’s nothing better than a backup you make yourself. Take a moment to visit the Pinboard export page and grab your bookmarks every once in a while. They’re in a format that should import cleanly into one of my many competitors. Best of all, since those sites are free, you can test your backups right now. Go do it!

I’m a big fan of Pinboard (and of backups).

I have a DropDMG configuration called “Mac App Store” that compresses the app, puts its version number in the filename, and saves it in my archives folder.

No way should this be necessary…

This looks awesome! I just learned about this because my mom ordered a set for my daughter’s 4th birthday. We need more women in engineering.

I am firmly behind this.

WP Engine’s Jason Cohen has a nice overview of the architecture considerations required for “uptime”. My experience has been that most folks aren’t willing to pay what it would take to significantly increase their site’s reliability. It’s about finding the right pragmatic compromise between reasonable redundancy and cost.

It’s succeeding because Glenn, the authors, the illustrators, the photographers, and I pour a lot of time and money into the content, relentlessly publishing roughly two original illustrations, four photos, and 10,000 polished words every two weeks.

Marco’s right that a publication will succeed or fail based on it’s content. I unsubscribed from The Magazine last month because of the content.

Hobbies are what the smartest people spend their time on when they aren’t constrained by near-term financial goals.

That’s how I got started contributing to (what became) WordPress.

The only reason I will miss attending SxSW is the opportunity to hang out with Ethan.