I've been using GitHub Pages quite a bit these days. In fact this blog is running off on GitHub Pages. I really like it as a platform. Part of using GitHub Pages is understanding the ins and outs of Jekyll and what limitations are placed on it in the context...
May 03, 2013
I had been diagnosed with a heart murmur back in 2005 at which time the cardiologist said it was unremarkable and that I just needed antibiotics prior to dental work. Two years ago I had a second ultrasound of my heart and no red flags were raised. Back in February...
May 02, 2013
Yesterday I joined Hyperboria. Hyperboria is a decentralised network established with the principles of freedom and security at its core. To get into Hyperboria you have to install CJDNS which and then get on IRC and find someone that is willing to give you a password to connect through their...
Mar 13, 2013
After running my blog for many years on WordPress I've recently decided to migrate over to Jekyll running on Github Pages. The design is using Twitter Bootstrap with some special Google Fonts Open Sans and Gentium Book Basic. I think it looks really nice and it's responsive. It took a...
Feb 14, 2013
Today I met up with my friend Joe Nelson, the goal was to discuss my prior blog post about a better social news experience. We wanted to look at the larger idea and see what baby steps could we accomplish to start moving toward that ideal. I'm of the mindset...
Jan 19, 2013
A number of years ago when I worked for Brazen Careerist I had an idea for the company. We could create a white label social news site that was a window into a larger network of social news sites. Management didn't see this as a useful direction for the company...
Dec 31, 2012
I just came across this video and thought it would be great to share. According to the map on deaddrops.com there aren't any listed in Madison, WI. I might have to change that. Dead Drops 'How to' - NYC from aram bartholl on Vimeo. http://deaddrops.com/ ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous,...
Sep 12, 2012
I've been a big of a laggard when it comes around to the latest and greatest in the world of PHP. Only recently have I been using the new functionality of PHP 5.3 even though 5.4 just came out. Today I had an idea for a proof of concept and...
Jun 14, 2012
Dave Winer discusses in his post A simple proposal for discussion software makers an idea where instead of having to only publish content inside of the application (Ex: WordPress, Tumblr, Quora), you could specify a URL for your content and the application would fetch that content and through a process...
May 28, 2012
Yesterday on the World Outline Podcast with Dave Winer and Adam Curry they mentioned me and my projects RT Proxy and TwitOPML. If you're interested in listening you can hear the clip or the entire episode.
Mar 20, 2012
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