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Blog, page 66

page 66 of 79

Continuing through the writing archive.

Tips · 3 min

Tips for pulling an all nighter

Tips for pulling an all-nighter at the computer: showers, dark editor themes, fruit, a 4 a.m. meal, and loud music.

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Media · 2 min

Aurgasm

Aurgasm.us is my favourite spot for full, free songs from musicians I have never heard of, with reviews and an mp3 player.

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Tips · 2 min

If you know beans about chili, you know chili aint got no beans

My slow-cooker chili recipe with bacon and three kinds of beans, plus a note on the no-beans purist debate.

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Vancouver · 1 min

OK to talk to

Ordering an OK Social button for Vancouver, a wearable signal that says strangers are welcome to start a conversation.

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Development · 1 min

When big people steal small guys ideas

Adobe Kuler looks a lot like ColourLovers.com, and small site owners have no real way to push back on big copycats.

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Development · 2 min

Internet explorer (IE) caching AJAX requests.

Fixing IE's aggressive AJAX caching by appending a timestamp query parameter to the request URL.

#Code#Web#Tutorial
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Development · 1 min

Defeat your Google twin

Plotting how to outrank my Google twin, the engine-casting Steven Smethurst, by Christmas.

#Web#Ideas#Journal
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Development · 5 min

Mistakes I have made

Ten blogging and web design mistakes I made over the years, from subdirectories and subdomains to too many RSS feeds.

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Development · 3 min

Where I went wrong

Reflecting on my offline games niche blog and where the original niche-picking calculation went wrong.

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Development · 2 min

Removing the Nofollow link

Why the WordPress DoFollow plugin and its public user list make blogs an easy target for comment spammers.

#Web#PHP#Ideas
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