March, 2013

  1. iPhone 5 WiFi Weirdness Followup

    Thanks to some help from a few friends, I got my iPhone back on my home WiFi network. It turns out what was happening was unrelated to the iPhone – my router had decided to stop giving it an IP address. This eventually started happening to other devices on my network as well. We swapped…

  2. Do You Have 100% Uptime? →

    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.

  3. iPhone 5 WiFi Weirdness

    About a week ago my iPhone 5 started acting strangely with my home network. It appears to have stopped joining the WiFi network (my network connectivity has dropped to 3G/LTE with the expected latency and my battery life has suffered as you’d expect). Oddly, while it doesn’t show the WiFi icon in the top bar…

  4. To: Family & Friends

    Date: March 4, 2013

    Subject: I walked the dog today (not a euphemism)

    Hi Everyone– The good news is I’m starting to feel like I’m really recovering from my surgeries. On the return trip from Tucson I walked both airports, I’m able to bend down and tie my shoes, stand straighter and raise my arms over my head. A sneeze no longer puts me in the fetal position…

    Continued…

  5. Marco on The Magazine Clones →

    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.

  6. Chris Dixon on Hobbyists →

    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.

  7. MacBook Pro fell over, scraping my shin and drawing blood with its sharp edges.

    Never would have happened if Steve Jobs were still alive.

  8. Social 2.8

    Social 2.8 (courtesy of MailChimp) was released today. This release was primarily to change over to using version 1.1 of Twitter’s API. Why should you care? Well, for one thing – the 1.0 API was starting to break and not get repaired in places. For example, you might have noticed that Social was no longer…