February 2012
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“Appreciate the value of developing and defending arguments, and then [concede]...”
– Ben Casnocha’s “My Start-Up Life” January 2012
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One of the funnier Abstruse Gooses... →
December 2011
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STFU About What Women Want →
Did I just get a crush on @lauraklein? #yes
When death feels like a good option →
This kind of stuff is more common than most realize. Needs to be talked about more.
Confessions of a tech journalist →
“It’s easier to give advice than it is to take your own.”
– me November 2011
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One year ago today a startup was born
This morning, my roommate Jonathan Woodard and I woke up at 6:00a, and without many words, got dressed, walked out to my car, and made the drive out to Mapleton & 30th for our 6:30a workout at Crossfit Roots. The workout was especially entertaining: 100 burpees. Stand up straight, lay down on the ground so that your chest touches, stand back up, jump up in the air, and clap your hands your...
Is Protect IP/SOPA really that bad?
Check out this video, especially the text starting at minute 3:47: http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ Is this true? Does Protect IP & SOPA really threaten to do that? Will I face up to 5 years in jail for liking a track on FB that is hosted on SoundCloud and posted to ThisSongIsSick? I’m having a real hard time getting to the bottom of what this legislation is because most people who...
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Friday nerdery: .slugignore for Heroku deploys →
Well geez, that’s nice of you, Heroku :)
October 2011
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Typhoeus::Hydra is hawt yo
From https://github.com/dbalatero/typhoeus. Use it.
September 2011
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Ruby developers, use Hashie::Mash →
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August 2011
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A 6 year, 2000 mile memory found w/ Snapjoy →
I applied to YCombinator the year it started out. If you scroll down to the April 9th, 2005 photo, Trevor is standing in front of a whiteboard. One of the teams was ‘VOIP Offensive Linemen’. That was me. Apparently Alexis showed up 3 meetings after me. I’m speechless that Snapjoy dug this up. Their founders are friends of mine I met after moving from Boston to Boulder last...
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Mea Culpa? Me-a bummed out.
It’s a bummer that Mark Suster was bullied into this: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/08/24/mea-culpa It’s a bummer because his original post (here) was brilliant. It was even-tempered, rational, and necessary. The dozens of FNAC corporations that get bought each year and get plastered all over TechCrunch are poisoning the minds of current, past, and future entrepreneurs -...
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Psychology of a Landing Page →
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“To put this in historical perspective, software entrepreneur Bill Coleman noted...”
– Aspen Institute - The Future of Work Awesome quote. A bit egocentric maybe, but valid nonetheless. 5 tags
Fantastic presentation by @aniero on EventMachine →
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'WTF is the Cloud?': How to talk to web developers →
I want to give this talk at SXSW this year. If you think it’s a good idea, go vote for it!
“If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our...”
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Never blindly trust any headline on @mashable (or...
http://mashable.com/2011/08/09/small-businesses-social-media This kind of stuff annoys me. First of all, the number of businesses in the study was reported wrong by Mashable. It’s 304, not 204. Also, I doubt how scientific this “[STUDY]” really was. Interviewing 304 residential home construction companies from central Missouri will give you much different results than...
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@gruber's improved regex for matching URLs written...
There were some minor changes to make this a valid Ruby regexp. Thanks @gruber
Snapjoy: Snapjoy Shoebox for Mac →
I love these guys. snapjoydotcom: Browsing photos on Snapjoy is fun — uploading photos isn’t. That’s why we’re pleased release Snapjoy Shoebox for Mac. This simple little app makes it easy to teleport tons of photos to snapjoy.com. It’s pretty smart too — it won’t upload photos you’ve already uploaded. Got a folder of photos…
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July 2011
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How to not let $17.5mm go to your head
Rdio has raised a bunch of money, but that doesn’t stop them from being pragmatic. Want to request music that’s not currently on Rdio? No problem. Just use the *Google Spreadsheet Form* they’ve created. No fancy schmancy interface, just a Google spreadsheet form. Get’s the job done. Love it. That’s being lean, folks.
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