The personal website of Matt Henderson.
12 June 2017
When sourcing work at Upwork, we tend to look for staff who are located in Europe, so that we have the chance to work in our timezone and have face-to-face meetings. A big problem, however, is fake profiles—people who are obviously not from Europe, posting profiles pretending they are.
A challenged I’ve always faced in running Keyboard Maestro on multiple Macs, is the maintenance of macros that are common to all, i.e. when updating a macro on one machine (say, changing the API keys of a service I’m accessing), I have to remember to go make the same updates on the others.
Apple recently introduced in the Numbers spreadsheet the ability to pull live stock prices from the internet, making it now possible to track portfolio performance.
21 April 2017
23 March 2017
In episode 45 of his “Waking Up” podcast, I loved this piece by Sam Harris on identity politics, and wanted to capture it here for future reference:
25 December 2016
Over the past four years, we’ve been to chess tournaments around the world, and a common thread has been that tournaments outside Spain are generally better organized and executed than those in Spain. That experience dramatically changed, though, with our recent participation in the Sunway Chess Festival, in Sitges, Spain.
14 December 2016
I’m the owner of a Gmail address that bears my name, in the form first.last@gmail.com.
13 December 2016
On December 1, the Canadian company formerly known as BitGold, sent an email to their customers, announcing a change that fundamentally affects how their customers use and experience the service.