Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Taxes paid vs benefits received

The Heritage Foundation has an interesting 2015 article on, The Redistributive State: The Allocation of Government Benefits, Services, and Taxes in the United States. In it, I saw this interesting

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iCloud Photo Sharing

Having an extended family spread geographically far and wide, I've been pleasantly surprised to find that a Mac/iOS feature I'd previously rarely used has ended up connecting us far better than any

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Ronak Parekh is a persistant man

Several weeks ago, I posted a job on Upwork looking for an individual who could help me test our new product, ChessDrop. In addition to receiving applications from individuals, I also started

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Amazon closed my affiliate referral account

Having recently discovered that Amazon closed my affiliate referral account, this article describes the support odyssey I went through in figuring out why and getting the situation resolved.

Surprise

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How to disable root login on a DigitalOcean droplet

When you create a droplet (virtual private server) at DigitalOcean, the service sends you an email containing the login password of the root user. The problem with this setup is the risk that your

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Deteriorating user experience design at Apple

In a recent Philip Greenspan post questioning Apple's competitive edge going forward, I found myself sympathizing with this anecdote:

What about Apple’s supposed leadership in user experience

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WordPress Hosting — From DreamHost to DreamPress to GoDaddy to DigitalOcean

This website runs on WordPress, and over the past several years has seen its hosting move from the DreamHost shared environment, to DreamPress managed hosting, to GoDaddy managed hosting to

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Refund policies on downloadable software

Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites. I purchased a plugin from them, subsequently decided it wasn't

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Rantbox is now Dafacto

A while back I created a second personal website at rantbox.io. The idea was that my frequent complaints about things really weren't content I wanted living here at dafacto.com. Ultimately, however

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There are few short-cuts in life

The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex—because it puts an unbearable burden on his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his

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