Moderation Amplification
A few nights ago, I came across Tom Coates’ post titled Social whitelisting with OpenID… about how to handle moderating an online forum when the amount that needs to be moderated …
Thoughts on Pagination
A common navigation pattern on websites is what I call “chunked pagination”: each page has a predetermined number of pieces of content on them. Page 1 shows items 1-10, page 2 shows 11-20, …
Yep, the import is slow. I know and I haven’t done much optimizing in the code. The Route I’m going is No Tool A Tool A fast Tool And I’m currently working on 2. – From …
The Front Line
So, Yahoo messed up today. They’ve messed up other days, too, but this was an especially red-letter day amongst other red-letter days, and this is one that has me ticked off. For reasons I …
The Code Behind the Yearbook
This is lifted from the README to the github repository. I decided to take all the blog posts, Twitter messages, and Flickr images I made this year, combine them, typeset them, and then get it printed …
My mom called to let me know that they had to put Dipstick down today due to the kind of things that happen to cats when they get old. She actually ended up being 14 years old, which was older than I …
They Used to Pour Fire off a Mountaintop
I was on a wiki walk when I came across this fascinating, but long gone, summertime event that used to happen inside Yosemite. So, they used to pour still-burning embers off the top of Glacier Point …
A New Razor
As a Christmas gift, Meghan gave me a new razor, one of the “old-fashioned” safety razors, complete with a shaving brush and soap that smells vaguely of tobacco. I had actually been eyeing …
The Cat in the Laundry Room
My parents have a cat that I cleverly named “Dipstick”, due to her solid blackness with a white-tipped tail. This cat was born at our house in the laundry room which is an exterior room …
A Sunday Story: 2011-12-11
This past week left me emotionally drained, with the excitement of signing on for my new job and putting my notice in at Flickr. I’ve started to say a few farewells at the office and each one …