Archive
2019
December
- December 31, 2019 » Self hosted, externally managed
- December 31, 2019 » Power of media
- December 31, 2019 » Gaming virtual kitchens
- December 31, 2019 » Farewell 2019, hello 2020
- December 31, 2019 » Advertising an Airbnb on Instagram
- December 30, 2019 » Zappos customer service
- December 29, 2019 » Finding parked cars: AWS vs Google computer vision
- December 28, 2019 » Gboard vs iOS swipe keyboard
- December 27, 2019 » Who's hosting? Who's managing?
- December 27, 2019 » Drop in piracy, drop in accessibility
- December 26, 2019 » Parking spot finder
- December 26, 2019 » In praise of the simple tech stack
- December 25, 2019 » Increasing creativity
- December 24, 2019 » Write mobile, edit desktop
- December 23, 2019 » iPhone 11 battery
- December 22, 2019 » Netflix's CEO transition
- December 21, 2019 » DeAMPifying my blog
- December 20, 2019 » Privacy updates and emission standards
- December 19, 2019 » Class action settlements
- December 18, 2019 » Shoulders of giants
- December 17, 2019 » 2019 donations
- December 16, 2019 » Disney's hostile takeover
- December 15, 2019 » TabNine
- December 14, 2019 » Avoiding the mouse
- December 13, 2019 » Disney+
- December 12, 2019 » 2019 Predictions in review
- December 11, 2019 » Strive for linear complexity
- December 11, 2019 » Search within Google search
- December 10, 2019 » Solve categories, not individual problems
November
- November 29, 2019 » My TI-89
- November 28, 2019 » Thanksgiving
- November 24, 2019 » Improving product reviews
- November 23, 2019 » Optimizing long running SQL queries
- November 19, 2019 » SMS based password manager
- November 17, 2019 » Rebirth of digital piracy?
- November 8, 2019 » DYI password manager
- November 6, 2019 » Importing resources into terraform
- November 4, 2019 » Upgrade your libraries
- November 2, 2019 » QR codes in China
October
- October 29, 2019 » Computer history memos
- October 28, 2019 » Deplying Docker using systemd
- October 26, 2019 » GitHub's security automation
- October 20, 2019 » File size histogram via the command line
- October 13, 2019 » Bypassing the incognito browser check on nytimes.com
- October 12, 2019 » Online food delivery markups: Seamless vs UberEats vs DoorDash
- October 11, 2019 » Combining Excel and the command line
- October 7, 2019 » Visualizing my Twitter archive - 2019 edition
- October 6, 2019 » Make sure you're understood
- October 3, 2019 » Upgrading pip packages within a Dockerfile
- October 1, 2019 » Visualizing Kafka partition changes
September
August
July
- July 29, 2019 » Sports biographies as management books
- July 28, 2019 » Open sourcing configurations
- July 27, 2019 » GitHub blocks access from Iran
- July 26, 2019 » PagerDuty's incident response guide
- July 21, 2019 » A more efficient Google Calendar
- July 19, 2019 » Why is your Confluence in Polish?
- July 17, 2019 » Substack vs Medium
- July 16, 2019 » Cloudflare outage postmortem
- July 15, 2019 » Environmental sustainability
- July 14, 2019 » Toward a global government
- July 14, 2019 » My Ubuntu experinece
- July 14, 2019 » DNS resolution gotchas
- July 13, 2019 » Keeping Ubuntu computers in sync
- July 10, 2019 » Personal dashboards
- July 9, 2019 » Ideal tech intern projects
- July 8, 2019 » Power of habit
- July 7, 2019 » Video of my Data Council NYC talk
- July 6, 2019 » Credit card merchant fees
- July 5, 2019 » Future of cloud is hybrid
- July 4, 2019 » Increasing the bar for reelection
- July 3, 2019 » Revamping my online security
- July 2, 2019 » Combine registration and sign in
- July 1, 2019 » Sign In with Apple
June
May
April
March
February
January
2018
December
- December 31, 2018 » Farewell 2018, Hello 2019!
- December 31, 2018 » Dorm rooms for adults
- December 31, 2018 » 2019 Predictions
- December 30, 2018 » Twenty seconds makes all the difference
- December 30, 2018 » Mexico city thoughts
- December 30, 2018 » Amazon vs Walmart
- December 29, 2018 » Wired headphones
- December 29, 2018 » The Teotihuacan pyramids
- December 29, 2018 » Moving from OS X to Ubuntu
- December 28, 2018 » Calendly
- December 27, 2018 » Eerie blue NYC sky
- December 27, 2018 » Amazon's "Add to list" design
- December 26, 2018 » Secret management across computers
- December 26, 2018 » Visualizing my blog: 2018 edition
- December 25, 2018 » Top posts of 2018
- December 25, 2018 » Happy holidays from Visual Studio Code
- December 24, 2018 » Solve all web app performance problems with SQL
- December 24, 2018 » Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act
- December 24, 2018 » Calendars as streaming events
- December 23, 2018 » Quora's revenue model
- December 22, 2018 » HackerRank
- December 22, 2018 » Edge moving to Chromium
- December 21, 2018 » Global roaming
- December 21, 2018 » FIxing spotty AirBnB wifi
- December 20, 2018 » Tech startups are not the only ones taking risks
- December 19, 2018 » New iteration of DevOps
- December 19, 2018 » Facebook's latest hit
- December 18, 2018 » I finally tried an electric scooter
- December 17, 2018 » The new company town
- December 16, 2018 » Stuck on a problem? Take a break
- December 15, 2018 » Overanalyzing Medium's tag suggestions
- December 15, 2018 » New code is not a linear increase in complexity
- December 14, 2018 » State of tech in 2018
- December 13, 2018 » Counting the number of lines of code in a GitHub account
- December 12, 2018 » Scenepeek
- December 11, 2018 » The price of AWS vs GitHub
- December 10, 2018 » EMR vs Databricks costs
- December 9, 2018 » The modern economy relies on information
- December 9, 2018 » Avoiding content overload
- December 8, 2018 » Automatic login
- December 7, 2018 » Speech recognition and a bunch of APIs
- December 6, 2018 » Conference call echoes
- December 5, 2018 » The golden age of browsers
- December 4, 2018 » How many wifi devices do we have?
- December 3, 2018 » Overcoming writing rustiness
- December 2, 2018 » Mobile payments and messaging apps
- December 1, 2018 » Fat specs, light stories
November
- November 30, 2018 » Tragedy of the commons: Apartment edition
- November 29, 2018 » A delivery aggregation service
- November 28, 2018 » Shell history: 2018 edition
- November 27, 2018 » Privacy in a face detection world
- November 26, 2018 » An ad on the Google search homepage
- November 25, 2018 » Exploring my backlinks
- November 25, 2018 » Aggressive code deprecation
- November 24, 2018 » Code without online help
- November 24, 2018 » Adding optionality to products
- November 23, 2018 » Electronic goods are cheaper than ever
- November 22, 2018 » History's largest empires
- November 21, 2018 » Superhuman review
- November 20, 2018 » My DataEngConf 2018 talk
- November 19, 2018 » Computer history books
- November 18, 2018 » Falling behind my 2018 blogging goal
- November 17, 2018 » Random quotes
- November 16, 2018 » Python 3 and aiohttp
- November 15, 2018 » Limiting tracking in email
- November 14, 2018 » What messaging war?
- November 13, 2018 » A UX gem in Google Slides
- November 12, 2018 » Social Security Administration spoofing scam
October
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2017
December
- December 31, 2017 » Favorite books of 2017
- December 28, 2017 » AR Adblocking
- December 27, 2017 » Visualizing my 2017 stats
- December 26, 2017 » People do what you inspect, not what you expect
- December 25, 2017 » Send a shirt, get a shirt
- December 24, 2017 » Top posts of 2017
- December 22, 2017 » My Medium experiment
- December 21, 2017 » Analyzing my blog: 2017 edition
- December 14, 2017 » More intelligent credit card merchant rates
- December 10, 2017 » Google's news problem
- December 7, 2017 » Jira analysis script
- December 1, 2017 » Measuring sprint efficiency
November
October
- October 30, 2017 » Slides from my talk at DataEngConf
- October 29, 2017 » Philosophy of code
- October 27, 2017 » The code review pyramid
- October 21, 2017 » GPS: The foundation of them all
- October 20, 2017 » Schedule automation using Google spreadsheets and Slack
- October 15, 2017 » Carrier specific iPhone ads
- October 14, 2017 » Scale challenges with AWS Athena
- October 9, 2017 » Downloading your AIM buddy list
- October 7, 2017 » Farewell, AIM
- October 5, 2017 » Generating a series of commands covering a date range
- October 2, 2017 » Writer's block and code
- October 1, 2017 » Lessons from a Yes concert
September
August
- August 31, 2017 » Amazon's real leverage
- August 28, 2017 » Focus on the story
- August 27, 2017 » Why live sports?
- August 25, 2017 » A unified Lambda architecture
- August 22, 2017 » Death of retail
- August 20, 2017 » JSON to CSV
- August 12, 2017 » A Snapcode in the mail
- August 10, 2017 » Start with pen and paper
- August 8, 2017 » Google Docs vs Confluence
- August 7, 2017 » Ephemeral data
July
June
May
- May 30, 2017 » Learn from failure, not success
- May 27, 2017 » Engineering, product, and design
- May 25, 2017 » IVR to SMS
- May 23, 2017 » Type dependent databases
- May 20, 2017 » Copying production SQL data to other environments
- May 17, 2017 » The different flavors of engineering interviews
- May 13, 2017 » In praise of the polymath
- May 10, 2017 » Using options to play Snapchat's quarterly results
- May 7, 2017 » Tools over languages
- May 4, 2017 » Security across multiple AWS regions
April
March
February
- February 28, 2017 » Lessons learned from today's S3 failure
- February 26, 2017 » My Snapchat investment strategy
- February 21, 2017 » Advice for coding bootcamp graduates
- February 19, 2017 » Math is incredible
- February 16, 2017 » Read books, not blog posts
- February 13, 2017 » Mancur Olson and the changing economy
- February 9, 2017 » Traffic efficiency
- February 6, 2017 » New law? Let the opposition name it
- February 4, 2017 » Identifying product weaknesses using Google autocomplete
- February 1, 2017 » Learning modern frontend development
January
2016
December
- December 31, 2016 » Favorite books of 2016
- December 31, 2016 » Amazon's peer to peer marketplace
- December 30, 2016 » Human-AI cooperation
- December 29, 2016 » Traveling? Buy a local book
- December 24, 2016 » Comparing public transit systems: New York vs London
- December 17, 2016 » Programming languages and developer tools
- December 13, 2016 » Automatically taking screenshots of HTML elements
- December 10, 2016 » Word clouds and text similarity
- December 9, 2016 » It's donation season
- December 6, 2016 » Efficiency vs expressiveness
- December 3, 2016 » Read the release notes
November
October
September
August
July
June
- June 26, 2016 » Low cost at small scale
- June 23, 2016 » The Brave browser
- June 22, 2016 » Messaging app fragmentation
- June 19, 2016 » Blogging from my phone
- June 18, 2016 » AWS, Stripe, and WeWork
- June 12, 2016 » Analyzing my blog
- June 11, 2016 » Following up on a website optimization offer
- June 6, 2016 » Word clouds in R
- June 5, 2016 » Blogging: The small wins
May
April
- April 30, 2016 » Text is king
- April 27, 2016 » Avoid full body code transplants
- April 23, 2016 » A Telegram blog bot
- April 18, 2016 » Irrationality of the markets: Amazon up, Netflix down
- April 13, 2016 » The corporate email signup design pattern
- April 10, 2016 » Unintended consequences
- April 7, 2016 » Generalize at n=3
- April 5, 2016 » The best code is no code
- April 3, 2016 » Ben Thompson's “laddering up” and building bigger moats
March
- March 27, 2016 » Unbundling politics
- March 26, 2016 » Political parties are product bundles
- March 21, 2016 » Data analysis needs to be fun
- March 20, 2016 » Passing the torch: IBM to Google
- March 13, 2016 » Approach work like the gym
- March 10, 2016 » The MySQL enum type
- March 6, 2016 » Airbnb, Uber, and local laws
- March 5, 2016 » AWS EC2 instance arbitrage
February
- February 28, 2016 » Tool specialization and growing companies
- February 27, 2016 » Aural information density
- February 22, 2016 » Platform partnerships
- February 21, 2016 » Amazon Echo
- February 20, 2016 » Let's Encrypt
- February 17, 2016 » The impact of self driving cars
- February 15, 2016 » Design your database for flexibility
- February 13, 2016 » Longer terms in government?
- February 10, 2016 » Retargeting gone wrong
- February 7, 2016 » Don't build a Homer
January
- January 31, 2016 » Describe what your code won't do
- January 29, 2016 » Unification in tech and a new Gilded Age
- January 24, 2016 » The famed 10x developer
- January 23, 2016 » The ownership hierarchy
- January 17, 2016 » Poor, neglected Google Voice
- January 12, 2016 » 2015 Stats: Part 1
- January 10, 2016 » Cleanest way to read a CSV file with Python
- January 9, 2016 » Have consistent development environments
- January 3, 2016 » Paris versus New York City
- January 1, 2016 » Lessons from 2015
2015
December
- December 28, 2015 » Smartphone usage by generation
- December 25, 2015 » The true cost of low quality
- December 20, 2015 » Have a work “workout” plan
- December 19, 2015 » Automatically generating APIs
- December 15, 2015 » Know what's mission critical
- December 12, 2015 » Jersey City garbage truck routes
- December 7, 2015 » Optional museum fees and corporate sponsorships
- December 6, 2015 » Setting up a new computer - then and now
- December 2, 2015 » Think interfaces, not implementation
November
- November 26, 2015 » Analyzing large networks
- November 22, 2015 » Why are Netflix and Spotify so different?
- November 21, 2015 » More MySQL fun
- November 19, 2015 » Adhoc task management
- November 12, 2015 » My old projects
- November 9, 2015 » Apps on LTE, mobile web on wifi
- November 8, 2015 » A company marches on its data
- November 5, 2015 » Zoning Airbnb
- November 1, 2015 » Good code is easy to build and deploy
October
- October 29, 2015 » Some nostalgia
- October 25, 2015 » Production makes fools of us all
- October 21, 2015 » Jsonify.me 2.0
- October 19, 2015 » Dates in the shell
- October 18, 2015 » Writing code? Think about the deployment
- October 15, 2015 » Adblock, publishers, and content quality
- October 11, 2015 » Have a 'go to' project when learning a new programming language
- October 10, 2015 » Not every big company is evil
- October 4, 2015 » Is media consumption zero sum?
September
August
- August 31, 2015 » Two factor authentication hell
- August 29, 2015 » Game theory dining
- August 23, 2015 » Learn the application architecture through AWS
- August 20, 2015 » Development cycles across programming languages
- August 16, 2015 » A phoneless day
- August 15, 2015 » Generating vs filtering
- August 12, 2015 » Reprioritizing a non priority RabbitMQ queue
- August 9, 2015 » Static site search
- August 3, 2015 » Debate what's necessary and no more
- August 1, 2015 » It's not done until it's deployed
July
June
May
- May 30, 2015 » Date range generation
- May 26, 2015 » Dealing with a stripped screw
- May 25, 2015 » Google Chrome knows what's best for me
- May 22, 2015 » The decline of niche tools
- May 18, 2015 » Experts, time, and quality
- May 17, 2015 » Taking spontaneous notes
- May 12, 2015 » Mosh trumps shoddy internet
- May 9, 2015 » Driving before GPS
- May 6, 2015 » Computer show fliers from the mid 1990s
- May 2, 2015 » A unique solution to every problem
April
March
February
January
- January 29, 2015 » Migrating a simple HTTP application on AWS
- January 26, 2015 » IBM's rumored layoff
- January 25, 2015 » The changing fidelity of the past
- January 24, 2015 » Don't trust client side data
- January 18, 2015 » Fun with GitHub's map tools
- January 17, 2015 » Take the first step
- January 11, 2015 » 2014 stats
- January 9, 2015 » Limited language codebases
- January 6, 2015 » Some quick Twitter analytics analysis
- January 4, 2015 » Introducing jsonify.me
2014
December
- December 31, 2014 » Redirect recursion
- December 29, 2014 » A new Turing test
- December 26, 2014 » DevOps for the rest of us
- December 20, 2014 » Passive technology and the decline of privacy
- December 18, 2014 » Amazon's Fire TV Stick
- December 16, 2014 » Why log me out?
- December 14, 2014 » Waiting for the aha moment
- December 13, 2014 » Travel to appreciate technological growth
- December 9, 2014 » Piketty and the power of data
- December 7, 2014 » Internetless coding
- December 1, 2014 » Symptom based monitoring
November
October
September
- September 27, 2014 » Mobile web browsing and Javelin
- September 25, 2014 » Dev tools matter
- September 21, 2014 » Software is good enough, why improve the hardware?
- September 20, 2014 » Dealing with an RDS replication issue
- September 17, 2014 » Web development bootcamps
- September 16, 2014 » Top down vs bottom up coding
- September 8, 2014 » Curated Twitter timelines and the tech stack
- September 7, 2014 » Importance of various tech services
- September 1, 2014 » API first startups
August
July
- July 31, 2014 » Hiring people on Odesk
- July 29, 2014 » Low quality? Start bundling!
- July 27, 2014 » Ephemeral security questions
- July 23, 2014 » When one door closes, another door opens
- July 16, 2014 » A simple way to automate AWS deployments
- July 15, 2014 » Set up HTTPS on EC2 running Nginx without ELB
- July 14, 2014 » Getting low level with HTTP
- July 13, 2014 » Good artists use fewer tools
- July 10, 2014 » Amazon courting app developers for the Fire phone
- July 9, 2014 » On Google Now
- July 7, 2014 » Retrieving a Twitter user's followers and followees
- July 5, 2014 » The future of databases
June
May
April
March
February
January
2013
December
- December 30, 2013 » 2013 blog stats
- December 29, 2013 » Taxi pricing in NYC vs Mumbai
- December 26, 2013 » Smartphones and literacy
- December 25, 2013 » Global products
- December 23, 2013 » Getting a SIM card in India
- December 21, 2013 » CSV powered products
- December 20, 2013 » Why Bank of America, why?
- December 15, 2013 » Using the information_schema.columns table
- December 9, 2013 » Why are there so many cleaning startups?
- December 1, 2013 » Drowning in JavaScript
November
October
September
August
July
- July 30, 2013 » Run Django under Nginx, Virtualenv and Supervisor
- July 27, 2013 » The power inbox
- July 22, 2013 » Security through monopoly
- July 21, 2013 » Beware the data monopoly
- July 17, 2013 » Scraping Yahoo fantasy football stats with Scrapy
- July 13, 2013 » Marketplaces are hard
- July 9, 2013 » D3 and Vega
- July 7, 2013 » Meetings: to take or not to take?
- July 3, 2013 » A design that's too good?
- July 1, 2013 » Externalizing externalities in brick and mortar
June
May
- May 29, 2013 » On SEO: Authority vs Originality
- May 24, 2013 » Investing in tech stocks
- May 22, 2013 » Save my reading spot, damn it
- May 17, 2013 » Adding attachments to django-postman
- May 15, 2013 » Google's “free” Adwords credits
- May 10, 2013 » Eighteen Months of Django: Part 2
- May 7, 2013 » Eighteen months of Django
- May 5, 2013 » Netflix, bundling, and the future of video
- May 2, 2013 » Follow through on that personal welcome email
April
March
- March 29, 2013 » Mailbox: Is the server required?
- March 26, 2013 » Welcoming the long, single webpage
- March 24, 2013 » Email addresses are private?
- March 20, 2013 » One art, please
- March 16, 2013 » Makers Alley v2
- March 12, 2013 » Mmmm... pseudo static sites
- March 9, 2013 » Just do the work
- March 5, 2013 » Discriminatory Pricing in the Post Office
- March 1, 2013 » App Store, what took so long?
February
January
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July
June
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2011
December
January
2010
August
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2009
September
March
January
2008
October
September
June
May
- May 30, 2008 » Interesting Perl behavior
- May 28, 2008 » Don't judge words by their author
- May 24, 2008 » Martha's Vineyard Lighthouse
- May 21, 2008 » Welcome
- May 14, 2008 » Brainteasers and interviews
- May 13, 2008 » Why we may never colonize space
- May 13, 2008 » Printers no longer come with cables?
- May 8, 2008 » Pronunciation
- May 4, 2008 » The homeless in the US
- May 4, 2008 » On Microsoft walking away from Yahoo
April