The hedgehog powered Twitter bot and the man behind it
Was passively poking around Hackernews this evening reading a really cool thread titled: "What projects are you working on?" when I stumbled upon an answer that piqued my interest. Apparently a Chilean programmer named Jose Luis Honorato took it upon himself to [...]
My emotional health is competely dictated by my analytics
Raise your hand if you relate: You wake up in the morning and before you brush your teeth, have your coffee or even wipe the crust off of your eyes, you are checking your analytics, statistics, and earnings. AMIRIGHT? If [...]
SEO: Things to do when your internet goes down
Our internet went down last week which put our operations to a grinding halt. Ah, first world problems. Rarely does this happen because we have a neighbor with a WiFi we can borrow or tether to 4G but we had [...]
Spring Cleaning Your Android Without Rooting or Apps
Over time, all Androids start to slow down a little bit. It is pretty normal to experience this but there are a ton of things you can do to get it back to where it used to be. Just a [...]
The Cowards Guide to Hacking Facebook’s Review System
Facebook has a review system like many other modern web platforms: you can log in to your account, click on some stars, and post a custom written review for the world to see. But Facebook's review system is flawed. Using [...]
Yet Another Absurdly Backwards LinkedIn “Feature”
LinkedIn is all sorts of messed up & backwards. Last week Darren Nix wrote about "the absurdity of LinkedIn" which basically pointed out how logged out users have more benefits than signed-in users. The thread got hundreds of comments on [...]
Does your household have a network administrator?
or does it need one? In addition to being a dad & husband, I am also our households network administrator. Like many houses, we have a ton of devices: 4 smart phones 2 tables with wifi and 4g plans 2 [...]
30 Images in 30 Days
I dropped the hammer and committed to learning Photoshop so I launched 30images30days.com. Check it out!
Learning Photoshop Part 1.5
I've been really happy with the progress I've been making in Photoshop. I think I can definitely say I am beyond beginner level and have moved to become an amateur. I've learned all about layers, layer masks (that really had [...]
Blackhat Outed on Reddit For Buying Upvotes
Oh man, one place you know you don't mess around on is Reddit. The place is full of insane crazy good hackers and programmers that investigate every single comment and upvote that was left. Anyhow, so this thread was created [...]
A Miserable Failure Learning Rails
My name is Patrick and I have been programming for over 20 years. In the past 10 years, I've mainly worked on the management side so mainly most of my coding revolves around debugging and overseeing other projects. That said, [...]
I’m Learning Photography…and Photoshop
One missing piece to my career in internet marketing has been the ability to take solid pictures, as well as create very basic images in Photoshop. I'm not setting out to be a master photographer, or even a great graphic [...]