Category: Web
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Goalfinger and Mozilla Persona
A few days ago, I released Goalfinger, a simple website that aims to help you decide what to do with your life. There are three stages: First, you enter at least 30 life goals. These can be as small or large as you like – anything, really, as long as they’re real goals of some […]
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Who to host with (domain names, web space, SSL, DNS)
I’m sometimes asked who I recommend buying web infrastructure from. Here’s my list based on my personal experience: Domains | SSL | DNS | Shared hosting | Dedicated hosting | Transactional email | Virtual servers Domain names: Namecheap Almost all of my domains are hosted with Namecheap. They’re simple, have a super-fast web interface, a […]
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Learning in hallways (with APIs)
I can’t let Clay Shirky’s piece, Napster, Udacity and the Academy, go un-commented-on: Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or […]
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Why I wrote my own CMS so I could write a novel in a month
Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional writer. It’s still something I aspire to, but I get just as many creative kicks out of building software – and the pleasure is even greater when, just occasionally, I get to combine the two. I’ve tried to participate in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, […]