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github mute

September 29, 2013

If a particular Github account is cluttering up a pull request you’re trying to review (a robot perhaps), you can mute their comments out with a quick bookmarklet. Note: this is hacky and will probably break at any momment.

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Google is getting you more comfortable with the sensitivity of the data they have on you

June 14, 2013

https://www.google.com/settings/activity

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How to change keyboard layout in OS X from the shell

December 3, 2012

Easy solution is Applescript:

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Average velocity

June 18, 2012

When building a product with a small team, there are two overriding “gut feel” metrics that crop into my head. “Is the team flying in formation?” and “What’s our average velocity?”

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NYC Tech Mobilizer

May 16, 2012

I’m running another tech mentorship program this summer.

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Fondu’s technology stack

April 12, 2012

Just posted on the Fondu blog a full rundown of the tech we use. Check it out!

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Hiring: Front-end developer

March 30, 2012

Hey you! Ya, you! I want you to help me build Fondu’s new web-app.

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Python FoursquareV2 library

January 10, 2012

At Fondu, location-based services, specifically foursquare, are incredibly important to us. Location with a social context is at the core of just about everything in our product.

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Asynchronous logging with MongoDB

October 17, 2011

One specific use case for MongoDB is as a user activity store. It’s simple, scalable, and can be done asynchronously (as long as occasional failure is tolerable).

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Dear Newegg, Goodbye. Love, Mike

October 3, 2011

Newegg,

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How to install Python Imaging (PIL) in a virtualenv with –no-site-packages

September 5, 2011

This gets PIL working with JPEG/ZLIB support within a virtualenv (with –no-site-packages). This has specifically been tested with Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.04 & 11.10.

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Hackers vs. Architects

July 5, 2011

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NextNY Tech Mentorship program (in collab with GA)

May 2, 2011

[][1][][2]So, over the past few weeks, I’ve been putting together a tech mentorship program for aspiring developers. The mentors helping out are amazing. If you know any smart developers, feel free to pass this info along.

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From Solo Founder to Co-Founder

March 23, 2011

[][1]Apologies. This is a longer, personal one.

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Startup UX: find your Zen

February 14, 2011

Over the past month, I’ve had nightmare customer service with Motorola, regarding my dying Droid. Being blatantly lied to and misled by several representatives (including an L2 supervisor) put a sour taste in my mouth.

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Version n+1

February 2, 2011

Behind the scenes at eventLo, we’re working on a phenomenal new V2 of the product. Back-end and front-end.

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A new year

December 29, 2010

Once again this blog has gone dark for over a month. That seems to happen whenever I get extremely busy. No apologies for it however, as it’s been a productive month.

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Singular Purpose Servers: The productivity boost of Amazon EC2

November 10, 2010

I’ll start this post by saying that any productivity improvements you get from EC2 probably won’t be immediate. There are a lot of features that are very powerful once you know how to use them. The time spent migrating to EC2 will probably even put you in the negative at first.

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The Scene Will Thrill You

November 8, 2010

Brad Hargreaves had a [phenomenal post][1] on his blog yesterday. The core of it was a warning that succumbing to the groupthink of tech circles will hamper innovation, and lead you to develop your products for the wrong customers.

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Confessions of a Solo Founder

October 28, 2010

I’m a single founder, working full-time on EventLo. This post is a candid account of my experience so far.

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Up for a breath

October 27, 2010

Wow. I can’t believe it’s a month since I last posted to the blog.

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Reactionary vs. Visionary

September 22, 2010

Neither is necessarily better than the other, and the best people can do both. Doing both at the same time, however is like trying to play ping-pong and philosophize. It’s just not going to work.

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Netflix Culture slides

September 17, 2010

Old stuff in the tech world, but profound nonetheless. Set aside 30 minutes to absorb these. It is time that will be repaid in the future.

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On the history of complexity

September 16, 2010

This is just astoundingly beautiful. Also a nice source for a few Wikipedia pages I should go read up on…

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The only thing holding Foursquare back is GPS technology

September 8, 2010

To be honest, I think checking in is obnoxious and un-natural. That’s not to say I don’t do it, but it’s disruptive to the social flow, and so getting it to be habit with a critical mass will be incredibly difficult. Some my friends don’t know where their phone even is at any given point in time.

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How to integrate Mongoengine into Pylons

September 7, 2010

Integrating Mongoengine into Pylons is really quick and painless if you know where to put stuff.

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Brief update

August 31, 2010

Nothing too insightful in this post, just leaving a pulse on what I’ve been up to.

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Why your startup will fail

August 26, 2010

[loser][1]Market collapse, better competitors, lack of interest, failure to bridge the gap, lack of talent, out of runway, your product sucks, blah blah blah.

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Use the right tools

August 25, 2010

[wheel][1]This sounds so dead obvious that most people will probably think about not even reading this.

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Pivot time

August 24, 2010

[pivot][1]Well, I’m certainly glad I made myself establish a business case before I got busy coding. Turns out I showed up a bit late to the party, and the competition is pretty nasty.

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I’m on a bus

August 20, 2010

BoltBusI’m on a bus. This ain’t a trolley, it’s as real as it gets.
I’m on a bus. Mother F’er, don’t you ever forget.

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I’m a Developer

August 19, 2010

[][1]Starting a business means that my roles just got very generalized. It’s all on me now, so I’m going to call myself a Developer. I’ll be tackling a combination of Software Development and Business Development, so it seems apt. Toss some Market Development in there and we really got ourselves a party.

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Flying solo

August 18, 2010

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a while now, but there were a bunch of things up in the air. That’s all been figured out now.[Bungy Jumping][1]

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How important are you on Twitter? (the Twitter hierarchy)

August 17, 2010

In a nutshell, the Twitter ecosystem resembles a pyramid. Where you are on the pyramid roughly depends upon the number of followers you have, and your following-to-followers ratio.

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Building a virtual data center using VirtualBox and Ubuntu

August 16, 2010

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a virtual data center, right on your computer. The virtual servers will be able to communicate with each other in a private network. I’ll also be able to communicate with them from the outside as well. Honestly, I hope you have a lot of RAM.

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Why your startup should be using MongoDB

August 13, 2010

[MongoDB logo][1]Here’s a hint. It isn’t because it’s better than (insert-your-brand-here)SQL. I’m not even going to address that debate right now. It simply has to do with product iteration.

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MongoDB Upstart service won’t start on Ubuntu (solved)

August 13, 2010

Wow. Just spent wayyyy to much time chasing down an issue getting a MongoDB Upstart daemon up and running using mongodb-stable on Ubuntu 10.4. The short answer is that the DB daemon was uncleanly shut down at some point, and a lock file was lingering. That lock file prevented MongoDB from starting. The solution to this is relatively simple. The database needs to have a repair run on it, which will remove the lock file.

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The new web: B2E

August 12, 2010

Business 2 Everybody is the current hot trend in the technology world, though no company will tell you that or use that term.

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Venture Cartography

August 11, 2010

A visual map of the VC landscape. Currently representing SanFran, NYC, and Boston.

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Piwik review

August 11, 2010

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with [Piwik][1]. It’s an open-source replacement to [Google Analytics][2].

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Python Web Framework Roundup

August 10, 2010

Over the last 5 months, I’ve had the opportunity to develop web-apps using 5 different Python web frameworks. Those frameworks are Django, Pylons, Turbogears, Plone/Zope and web.py. Each has their own flavor, and could be useful for different projects. If you’re thinking about starting a web project, and you already know the virtues of Python*, then it’s good to know the pros and cons of some of the major frameworks.

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PeoplePatcher

August 9, 2010

I had a mean streak of motivation in me this weekend, and cranked out a quick web-app, start-to-finish.

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MongoDB now supports sharding

August 6, 2010

Excuse my nerd freak-out, but this is really cool.

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Be honest, and don’t bite off more than you can chew

August 5, 2010

Be honest with yourself and others. Stand by your commitments, execute swiftly, and always follow through.

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Another phenomenal NY Tech Meetup (August)

August 4, 2010

First of all, I need to give props to [J][1][ohn Britton][1] on an absolutely killer [Twilio][2] demonstration. Smooth and well-practiced, he took a grand total of 5 minutes to write a Twilio app that allowed everybody in a 850 person auditorium to dial into conference calls with each other. He then took all the phone numbers of everyone who called, and gave them ring-backs with an automated message. 5 minutes. Amazing.

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Google Chrome Speed test

August 3, 2010

Excellent ad for Google Chrome.

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Announcing Socialgraph

August 2, 2010

Socialgraph is an open-source project I just launched over the weekend that aims to be a server-to-client relationship visualization platform.

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Jeff Bezos’ “Regret Minimization Framework”

July 29, 2010

 

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The Future of Foursquare

July 29, 2010

I think that I finally “get” Foursquare. I’ve been using it since I moved to NYC, and it’s been useful to me in that time, but it always seemed like fun with a little bit of utility. I no longer think that’s the case, and as it grows, it is going to be incredibly useful, with the fun being a great way to get people onboard and engaged.

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Technical debt

July 28, 2010

 

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