Three weeks ago today, on an unfortunate accident, Mako my 6 year old Siberian Husky escaped from home, and we noticed just a couple of hours later. After endless hours, driving around different possible routes, talking to people, calling out his name, posting hundreds of flyers, hundreds of people sharing on Facebook and Twitter, we… Continue reading Mako & Oliver
Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014
Last year around this same date I started The Hacker and Designer News newsletter as a weekly curated recap of the what I thought were the best articles from Hacker News and Designer News on startups, entrepreneurship, hacks, programming, design, etc. I built and open sourced an aggregator to help me collect posts. I later built news.hdn.io using that same… Continue reading Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014
File Uploads + CORS + IE
Supporting Internet Explorer is always kind of a drag, but sometimes you just have to. Adding to the mixture file uploads via AJAX and CORS only make it that much more fun. When dealing with AJAX file uploads I always seem to keep going back to jQuery File Upload. Making these file uploads work on… Continue reading File Uploads + CORS + IE
Backup OpenPGP keys on paper
Recently I remember I was keeping a backup of my OpenPGP keys on an external hard drive that any day now could just cease to work. After my first attempts with PGP/GPG where I lost my private keys and could no longer revoke them, I wasn’t planning on loosing another one again. After reading what… Continue reading Backup OpenPGP keys on paper
My talk on JSON Web Tokens at DjangoCon US 2014
I had a great time at DjangoCon US 2014. Lots of first times. First time at DjangoCon First time speaking at DjangoCon First time speaking in front of “large” crowd. First time visiting the west coast First time visiting Portland Special thanks to Blimp for enabling me to do this. Thanks to the DSF’s grant which… Continue reading My talk on JSON Web Tokens at DjangoCon US 2014