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We promise not to screw it up 21 May 2013 | 09:09 pm
Marissa Mayer made the inaugural post to Yahoo!’s Tumblr blog, announcing they were acquiring the service for $1.1 billion dollars (all cash). By modern measures, this seems like a pretty good deal. R...
Now on the Apple Store: A Dell XPS with OS X 16 May 2013 | 10:35 pm
Can you imagine an Apple exec, taking the stage at a main Apple event, promoting a Dell computer that has been optimized for running OS X, and sold exclusively through Apple’s own store? Well, that’s ...
Google Island 16 May 2013 | 12:33 pm
Here’s a Storify post assembled from a bunch of Tweets I just made inspired by the Google I/O presenation this year. Larry Page said there should be a part of the world set aside for unregulated resea...
Phishing with Forged Links 9 May 2013 | 09:17 pm
TL;DR version: Sophisticated phishing attacks can be hard to detect for most. As software developers, we need to build better detection, prevention, and countermeasures into apps and services that rel...
Re: unauthorized access 3 May 2013 | 09:39 pm
Earlier this week, I got the following email from my Mom: From: Mom To: Brad Choate Subject: Fwd: unauthorized access I think you will tell me to ignore this. Right? ————— Forwarded message —————...
My work tools, 2013 edition 29 Apr 2013 | 11:50 pm
From year to year my work tools change. So, periodically I like to capture the state of my work environment on my computer. I’m a software developer (both web and iOS) who dabbles in design. Here’s th...
Catching up 27 Apr 2013 | 02:24 am
So I should probably give a bit of a recap to bridge the gap I’ve created from not posting here for a few years. Since then, the most notable change for me has been my work situation. It’s changed, bu...
Using Flavors without giving over your whole domain 26 Apr 2013 | 09:05 pm
A few months ago I set my wife up with a Flavors landing page for her web site. She wanted to have her home page be more of a calling card and demote her blog just a bit, since she doesn’t post as oft...
Picking up the pieces 25 Apr 2013 | 08:54 pm
I’ve had a long hiatus from the blog. I regret getting away from long-form writing and feel the need to return to it. But I had to do something with my home page. I’ve decided to use Flavors.me to giv...
Introducing Unicons 18 Feb 2010 | 05:40 pm
Unicons is a little project I put together today, making it easier to insert some of those little Unicode symbols... (This is a summarized feed.)
