Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

The Saris Solo bike rack

With the Saris Solo, I have found the perfect bike rack for the tiny Toyota iQ. Here's my review.

Having searched for the smallest possible car that could carry four passengers, I settled on the 2013

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RaceSplitter invited to time the 2013 Vuelta Cerdanya Ultrafons

The Vuelta Cerdanya Ultrafons (or VCUF) is an endurance event organized each year by Eduard Jornet, father of the world's greatest endurance athlete, Kilian Jornet. From the rustic town of

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Kenu Airframe car mount for the iPhone

If you use your iPhone in the car for listening to music or navigating, the problem is simple—*where* do you put the device?

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Orphaned Facebook apps

We have a customer in Germany for whom we developed several Facebook apps used in their business. The apps were associated with the personal Facebook account of our customer contact.

Several months

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Simplifying our hosting infrastructure

Over the past decade, we at Makalu have tended to host everything ourselves. We leased several dedicated servers, hosted all our websites and apps, hosted and managed our own email and operated our

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iCloud syncing of Mail rules

I have a personal account setup on three different Macs—my own MacBook Air, an iMac that serves as our home server and the kid's mini. In my account on the iMac, I had Mail running with an elaborate

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HelpScout for customer support & product documentation

Over the years, we at Makalu have tried several web-based customer support services, and have never really found one that worked for us. Until now.

A few months ago, we stumbled across a service — He

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Using a custom domain for your Dropbox public files URLs

This article shows you how to use a custom domain in place of those ugly, long Dropbox User Content public folder URLs.

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Truth in design

I've always classified articles I save on a scale of one to five stars. With this one from Matt Gemmell, I'll have to add six.

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Thoughts on product reviews and a tale of a disagreeable customer

When tens of thousands of customers, I suppose the laws of statistics dictate that you're going to have a few disagreeable one. With those, it's probably best to listen to what they have to say, and just move on. But given the effort we've put into making Rego a good product, I can't seem to help getting a little upset sometimes when I run across them.

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