I’ve been using Castro for the last month and I’m smitten. Finally, a podcast client that thinks about podcasts the way I do. Here is the simple list of things Castro does right: Omni-present audio controls. If I’m in the app, and a podcast is playing, I don’t need to change screens to get to…
January, 2014
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Whole house is now Nest Protect-ed. Good riddance mystery chirps – you will not be missed.
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He showed up in my office today, courtesy of one of my colleagues. So awesome.
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I did an interview with Troy Dean for WP Elevation which is now available. I talk quite a bit about my history with WordPress and my approaches to various things including my work experience, my team, working with clients, and the merger with VeloMedia. This is the first time I’ve done an interview like this…
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Over the last year or so I’ve made a slow transition to only using my iPad as my “evening” machine. I read my feeds and emails, catch up on social networks, Instapaper content, etc. And as I’ve transitioned to the iPad, that’s all I’ve been doing at night. I bounce around looking for more content…
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Aluminum laptop is frigid to the touch after spending a cold evening in my car. Considering loading a Flash movie in the background.
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Even with these simple tables and small data sets it’s clear that INT is a saving of disk space over BIGINT. In many clients I’ve seen huge savings in multi TB databases, just with a small number of schema optimizations. If this saving alone for a more optimized database design was only 10%, it is an easy 10% that will reflect a direct improvement in performance.
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Matt recently wrote about the value of blogging. I’d been working on some notes in this area as well, but from a different approach. The part of blogging I find particularly interesting and valuable is the format it provides to be thoughtful about things. Notice something. Think about it. Write about it. The process of…
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So awesome.
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At least two times a day now, my devices running iOS 7 will simply cease to function and restart themselves. This isn’t a full restart, but rather a relatively quick one. And yet it’s no less annoying. I’ll be grabbing my iPhone to take a picture and crash.
I’m getting increasingly frustrated by this.
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I haven’t been tempted by any of the smart watches currently on the market, though the just announced Meta looks nice. It got me thinking about what I’d want from a device on my wrist. I don’t think I’d want notifications about email, text messages or social networks. I already get those from my phone…
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Pitch-perfect, as usual.
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“Stop that rhyming and I mean it. Anybody want a peanut?”
*makes room on shelf for Father of the Year award*
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.@rkunboxed Web fonts are still way too hard/finicky.