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Google Reader, RIP

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Is it possible to leave Facebook?

(Posted originally to my Facebook feed.) I keep trying to reclaim online time from Facebook, and then someone tags me or posts to my timeline, and my inner moderator kicks in. And then there I am right...

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CloudKit: Square Pegs and Round Holes

My long-time friend Brent Simmons has been pretty prolific on his blog recently — sadly me, not so much. (I’m working on it.) Monday, he wrote a response to Marco Tabini‘s Macworld article, Why you...

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Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

Today, sites all over the Web are making a statement by “[covering] the web with symbolic ‘loading’ icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record...

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Porting to WordPress Part 1: Scoping

About a week ago I started a project to port this site from Manila to WordPress. While there are probably very few Manila users still out there who might want to do this, I thought it would still be a...

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Hello World!

If you see this, you’re looking at all of my old site’s content running on my self-hosted WordPress server… Phew! I think that’s enough for tonight, but there will be more soon. I’ve got a bunch of...

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Porting to WordPress Part 2: Requirements

In my earlier post about porting from Manila to WordPress, I covered some basics around how and why I decided on the approach I took, and some of the requirements for the new site. I’ve made a ton of...

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Porting to WordPress Part 3: Code

In the last post on this topic, I discussed some of the differences between Manila and WordPress, and how understanding those differences teased out some of the requirements for this project. In this...

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Thanks, Dave Winer!

Today is Dave Winer’s 20th Anniversary blogging, starting with this DaveNet piece in 1994. Dave wrote a great piece about the occasion here: 20 years of blogging. As I read it, a few things came to...

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CocoaConf Seattle 2014 iCalendar Feed

This June, I was one of the lucky ones who’d won the lottery, and was able to attend WWDC in San Francisco. While I was at the conference, it was awesome to have the whole schedule at my fingertips via...

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WordPress vs. Roll-Your-Own Blog Engine

Alex King posted an interesting rebuttal of Santiago Valdarrama’s missive explaining why he’s building his own blog engine. Taken together, these posts pretty much sum up the reasons why I went with...

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Dave Winer: Someone had to go first

Dave Winer: As Walter Isaacson points out  innovators need to be both humanitarians and scientists, we have to touch the human spirit, and be masters of the scientific method. In the bootstrap of...

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I Need Some WordPress Advice

I have a plan for something I want to do with my site, and could use some advice from experienced WordPress people. I have two legacy sites that I want to merge into my current WordPress site. Content...

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My EditThisPage.com site is now here

Hi all—here’s an update following my previous post asking for some WordPress advice: I pulled the trigger, and now all of the content from Jake.EditThisPage.com is ported over to JakeSavin.com....

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Big Data: It’s The Analysis, Stupid!

We took the verticals that FounderDating Network Cofounder members (those members who have indicated that they are interested in finding cofounders) selected as markets they are interested in started a...

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Ported my Radio UserLand Site

It may take some time for the DNS change to propagate, and there are certainly going to be some broken incoming links, but I just finished the bulk of the work to port my Radio UserLand site here. All...

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Multiple External Monitors on Mid-2011 MacBook Air

I’ve been working with multiple displays since at least 2004. Back in those days I had a 17″ PowerBook G4 with a PCM/CIA card that provided a second external DVI output. It was slow, but it worked,...

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More Evidence US Health Insurance is Broken

Updated: Apparently I’m living in the past, and hadn’t yet educated myself on the implications of the Affordable Care Act. While I knew that the ACA protected people from being denied coverage based on...

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Fixed: Aptana Studio JNI_CreateJavaVM error

I’m looking at various Mac options for JavaScript / Node.js IDEs, and decided to try out the Eclipse-based Aptana Studio 3 (now part of Appcelerator). But I ran into a problem when trying to run it—I...

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Ted Cruz Tips GOP Hand on Healthcare Reform?

Just before the midterm election, I wrote a pretty misinformed post about how broken the US health insurance system is. While my level of due-diligence when it comes to the protections afforded by the...

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