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PSA: Strip your user’s (email address) 2 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Help preserve your sanity by strip’ing your user’s email address unless you enjoy being confused by things-that-should-work-but-don’t when confronted by a email address like ‘ jamie@ideasasylum.com’. ...
Printing story cards from Pivotal Tracker 15 Jul 2013 | 02:03 am
The advantage of tools like Pivotal Tracker is that you can easily collaborate online but, just occasionally, it’s nice to print out a stack of story cards, lay them out on a table and physically move...
Ruby Markers for Sublime Text 7 Jul 2013 | 08:21 pm
Have you ever wondered how Avdi gets those results-as-comments in his Ruby Tapas episodes? I did. And apparently it’s one of the most asked questions he receives. The answer is xmpfilter and it comes ...
The Beauty of Hopelessness 2 Jul 2013 | 01:37 pm
]1 Hope Since 1995, I went by the username hopeless as my online identity. In explaining it, I would tell the story of how when I went to university I was replaced by a puppy called Hope (from the Ho...
Routine backups for your Rails Server 14 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm
Problem: protecting your user’s data I recently wrote about using tarsnap to backup a linux server and that’s especially important with the recent revelations about PRISM. Tarsnap is “backups for the ...
Just keep it simple! 14 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
Simple is boring. Simple is easy. Simple doesn’t get you noticed. But simple works! Here’s a frustrating experience I had today with a overly-complicated web form:
Don’t fear the PRISM 11 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm
I read this article at the weekend which argues that we should view the PRISM-debacle as an opportunity to start EU-specific internet services. I disagree in a few ways. The best are popular because t...
This is how I’d build PRISM 7 Jun 2013 | 06:08 pm
The big news in the tech world today is PRISM. This is supposedly a system installed at the major Internet providers like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo that lets the NSA access any user’s data. They’ve ...
LiveReload and HTTPS 5 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
Web developers, particularly Rails developers, are on a constant lookout for anything which makes their lives easier and their development process easier. Enter LiveReload. This little app watches for...
The curious case of the lost Fitbit — and how to prevent it 31 May 2013 | 04:01 pm
A few days after my last post about measuring things, and enthusing about my Fitbit Zip, I lost it I synced the Fitbit on Monday night, and wasn’t using the computer again until midday Tuesday so it m...
