September, 2011

  1. Subscribing to a Feed in Google Reader

    For some reason Google Reader / Reeder can be pretty difficult to subscribe to feeds with. You click the “Add a Subscription” button, enter in the feed URL, and it kicks back a “feed not found” error. Hello, I didn’t want to search, I gave you the URL of the stupid feed. It seems that…

  2. Crowd Favorite is Hiring: Technical Designer

    Crowd Favorite is hiring! We’re looking to add a designer with good HTML and CSS chops to join our front-end team in our Denver, CO office. I’m certainly biased, but I think this is a pretty great position. You will get to: work with latest web standards work on high-profile websites conceptualize and create new…

  3. Other people →

    You’ve heard it before, that future-you is also a different person. While that’s true, it doesn’t have the emotional weight of an actual different person working on your code.

    So the lesson I’ve learned is this: that other person is out there, and there’s a good chance I already know him or her. I want that person to be happy when they go to work on my code. I want them to not curse my name and the horse I rode in on.

    Looks like Brent is doing a good job of this.

  4. OAuth Needs Partial Authorization

    I’m not conceptually opposed to OAuth, or for a site using another site’s identity system for their authentication. The problem is these sites ask for too much access. I am happy to log in and let them leverage my current networks to try to connect me with folks in the new service, but I want…