Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Paying one’s “fair share” of taxes

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 (emphasis added by me):

These great lovers of America
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Inna Demianova is a persistent woman

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 Cart2Cart service, and pinged them in chat

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Disappointing support from WooThemes

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 mirrored the production site to a

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The Man in the Arena

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 have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the

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Authenticating support requests

I experienced something today that's frustratingly becoming quite common. I emailed the support address of a financial institution I use, and they replied that they can only provide support if I

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What five bucks will get you on Fiverr

Earlier this year, I built a new website through which I planned to publish the contents of my book, Money for Something, for free. After finishing the site, I found myself feeling unsatisfied with

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A letter from Pinky

Yesterday, I received a random email from "Emily Johnson", from "Ranks India":

Hi esteemed Sir/Ma'am, Could you please outsource some seo business to us? We will work according to you and your

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Get a Yahoo homepage when you install Java!

Seriously, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. While updating Java 8 to version 73, the Java installer presented me with this screen — offering me, a Yahoo Homepage & New Tab.

What has the

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What it’s like to take on venture capital investment

One of my favorite podcasts, recently discovered, is StartUp, by Alex Blumberg, former producer at This American Life. The podcast chronicles the story of starting Gimlet Media, Alex's new business

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The design of one-click feedback

Today I received helpful support from Kimberly Castleberry, who works at Yoast. At the bottom of her email was a mechanism to provide feedback:

I'm busy, but at the same time do want to "give back

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