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Oh WordPress, I love you but you make it so hard…
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
It feels like there are new security issues around WordPress every week.
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GNU Terry Pratchett
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
Recently, pretty much the entire geek/fandom community was in full on mourning over the death of fantasy author Terry Pratchett.
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Oh Swype, Where Have You Been All My Life?
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
For years my Android using friends have been revving about Swype.
When tablets and smartphones first appeared on the scene, many of us were so awash in the glow of our shiny new toys that we overlooked a glaring weak point - text input.
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The Chrome Conundrum
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
I Love/Hate Chrome!
Having used the Chrome browser regularly for a couple of years now, I really love quite a number of things about it.
- It’s fast
- The developer tools are superb
- It has a vibrant user community, including a number of very smart people whose opinions I respect who ( Read more... )
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The Joy of DevOps (Or, Return of the Living Generalist!)
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
One of the things I have always enjoyed about what I do is that I have, from pretty much day 1 in the technology industry, worn many hats.
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I’m Glad Google Is Retiring Reader.
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
Because I and about a zillion other jilted Reader fans have now found Feedly.
Feedly is what Reader wanted to be when it grew up, but never had the chance to become.
Yes, it’s that good.
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Ungagged!
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
A couple of weeks back I was laid off from Blue State Digital.
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Are you planning on moving off LiveJournal?
So for the last couple of years I've mostly been posting at my blog - http://www.feoh.org - and hadn't realized that recently my LJ cross poster had stopped working ( Read more... ) -
Amazon is doing itself a dis-service by killing Stanza
Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.
Apparently, Amazon bought the company that makes Stanza quite a while ago, and if one can believe what one reads, they did so for the sole purpose of killing it. This is a stupid move on their part if true.
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Boy howdy I've been getting a lot of comment spam here of late
A surprising amount in fact. I guess I'm spoiled because my regular blog has Akismet and that seems to work just peachy for smacking down spammers.
Anyone have any suggestions for cutting back on the comment spam?