A little while back I buckled down and did some much needed restructuring of my domain registration and web hosting. I made the decision to let more than half of my domains expire, and moved all of the domains I was not letting lapse to Hover.1 I’m down to 17 domains from over 100. Of…
May, 2015
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Watching Star Wars IV with my 6 year old.
She is wearing her Princess Leia dress and telling me what is going to happen before it happens.
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To: Family & Friends
Date: May 25, 2015
Subject: Treatment Update
Hi Everyone, I know it’s been a little while since I’ve sent an update, but happily that is because there hasn’t been much to report. I am still on the same clinical trial, and had a scan a month back that showed some tumor growth and some tumor shrinkage – this is what they refer…
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Oh thank goodness.
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iMessage feature request: show the recipient’s current time. I’d like to avoid buzzing a friend’s phone in the middle of the night when they are (unbeknownst to me) traveling in Europe.
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Both East and West NBA Conference Finals are between the #1 (Golden State, Atlanta) and #2 (Houston, Cleveland) seeds. Chalk!
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Once a user has submitted a form, you generally don’t want them to submit it a second time.1 A nice way to handle this is to disable the submit button once the form has been submitted, while replacing the text in the submit button with a message to let the user know that their desired…
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Tom Brady talking “Deflategate” in front of a background touting #flexball – you can’t make this stuff up.
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Feel free to replace “design” with “develop” if that’s your agency’s thing. It’s all the same, no matter what you’re producing.
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When I first made my transition from front-end development into back-end development in ~2002, I had two things to learn: a server-side language how to talk to a database (SQL) on top of my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With these five basic things, I was able to build some useful stuff. I’m working…
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Re-structuring CSS and JS files so that external libraries and override files flow cleanly through Gulp.
Sorry ladies, I’m taken.
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Well said.
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NBA announcers, do we have players that can really “score the football” on the basketball court? Do we need the “basketball” distinction?
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For some reason, the example code in the Laravel docs for their Mail feature neglect to show how to pass defined variables into the closure. Here is something a little more useful. View the code on Gist.
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I agree with many of Steve’s points here, but I’ve had much better luck with my battery life. I’m getting 7-8+ hours easily on a charge – perhaps because he got the special order 1.3GHz model while I schlump along with the 1.2 model.
My MacBook Pro is now my desk machine and I use it for my photography workflow. Just about everything else is done on my MacBook. I really like this little guy.