Long-time Apple customers became accustomed over the years to thoughtful and delightful interaction design. As Apple has grown—and perhaps as Steve Jobs has passed, and…
The path less traveled.
Long-time Apple customers became accustomed over the years to thoughtful and delightful interaction design. As Apple has grown—and perhaps as Steve Jobs has passed, and…
Because every WhatsApp “informational” group eventually devolves into a water cooler chat, my app badge currently shows 1,457 unread messages. Because I rarely open Facebook,…
Our company is bidding on the re-development of an existing product that has outgrown the technical framework on which it was originally built. The customer…
Overview In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical. Those non-technical trade-offs can be subtle,…
The 2016 European Youth Chess Championship took place in beautiful Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, about eight kilometers outside the city at the…
One of the services for which I’ve truly been happy to pay is 1Password for Families, which allows my wife and I to centrally manage…
As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I have my home network connected to the internet through a VPN router, running the Tomato firmware.…
Between July 11 and July 16, the 2016 U14 Spanish National Chess Championship was held at the beautiful Best Western hotel in Salobreña, Spain. Lance…
In reviewing Lance’s performance at the Spanish national championship this past weekend, the GM trainer from Andalucia strongly encouraged us to buy “ChessBase” as a…
Update — Readers will note that I’ve changed the title and URL of this article, and that’s because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid…
In a recent blog post I explained how I secure my home network with a VPN. In that article, I also explained how I enabled…
Continuing in my spammer Hall of Shame series, here’s an persistent (and ongoing) series of spam from Spencer Mains at a company called LiveRamp. Spencer,…
In this interview, Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donahue’s concerns about greed.
Since 2011, I’ve been receiving spam from this company, Designstraw, and always with the same, “We’re looking to take on a few extra projects…” May…
In this article, I describe how I added security to my home network by installing a router that directs all internet traffic through an encrypted VPN connection. The adventure includes my experience with the FlashRouters company, the Tomato router firmware software, an OpenVPN connection to the Cloak network, the Linksys E2500 router and the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router.
I’ve never been good at remembering my social media URLs. Am I “dafacto” there or “mhenders”? At Facebook, where neither was available, what was that…
To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small…
This morning I posted an article about some CrashPlan-related issues discovered when migrating my wife’s dead iMac to a new machine. Another lesson learned in…
Last week my wife’s four-year old iMac died. When the new one arrived, I set it via migration in the form of a USB-connected drive…
TextExpander is a Mac utility for creating auto-expanding text shortcuts—“snippets”—that can save you time on things you repetitively type, such as email signatures, your telephone number or boilerplate responses to support emails. With version 6, Smile decided to move away from paid upgrades, to a subscription plan that would cost roughly $5 per month. The move was controversial, a situation which is well documented at Michael Tsai’s blog. I’ve been using TextExpander for 10 years, but decided against continuing with a subscription plan.
The 2016 Andalucia Kids Chess Championship took place at the El Fuerte hotel in beautiful, El Rompido, Spain. Over the course of three days, nearly…
In this article about Roger Ver’s $100,000 bitcoin bounty to Bernie Sanders for a debate on the topic of patriotism, we come across this quote…
Inna Demianova is doing her best to overtake Ronak Parker’s persistency record. Looking for a way to migrate WooCommerce data, I ran across her company’s…
Makalu was recently hired to redesign an e-commerce site running on WordPress, and implementing its shop using the WooCommerce system. To begin the process, we…
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could…
