A month ago I decided to take another stab at proposing a solution to allow all of us to keep working on great programming workshops. Personally, the biggest headache in each and every one of the workshops that I have organized or participated in is the time and effort it takes to configure and setup… Continue reading Juice Box
Mako & Oliver
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