Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

My advice to the kids at Swans Career Day

My wife and I were invited to participate in the Swans school "Career Day". We were assigned one of about 10 tables in a large ballroom, where 100 or so year-10 students walked around asking

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Interaction design at MarketCircle

Today when I launched Daylite, it alerted me to the availability of a new version. I know from experience, though, that it's bad news to try updating Daylite, before updating Daylite Server. Since

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Interface inconsistency at Twitter

I know from experience it's really hard to always achieve consistency, so this is really more an exercise in conscious observation, than criticism.

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The Story of RaceSplitter

For almost a decade, my company, Makalu Interactive, has been providing web design and development services to clients. We've had a lot of both good fortune, and success. But all along, we've also

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Getting trapped in a cooling tower at the Georgia Power Company Plant Yates

Excluding a high-school job at the Kroger grocery store, my first real job was with the Georgia Power Company, at their electrical power generation plant in Newnan, Georgia — called Plant Yates. I

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Faster archiving to a server-connected Drobo

This article discusses my use of Hazel on my home MacOS X server to make network transfers to my Drobo archive much faster, taking full use of my gigabit network.

At home, I have a pair of 8TB Drobos

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A prayer for Japan?

Does it really make sense to pray, in response to such disasters?

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What happens when a project is awarded to the lowest bidder.

As Alex and I enjoyed an afternoon tortilla at the Tinglao, we watched in weirdly terrifying humor, at this group of professionals trying to install a sign on the building next door. ("We don't need

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The Big Short — A brief summary of the 2008 financial collapse

The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, is an amazing book about the banking crisis of 2008. Having watched the events unfold over the course of about a year, and not really understanding everything

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Sam Harris on The Fact of Life

Here's an excerpt from "Letter to a Christian Nation," by Sam Harris, that I really liked.

THE FACT OF LIFE

All complex life on earth has developed from simpler life-forms over billions of years. This

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