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by kentbrew 15y ago
One of the warning signs that you're working for the wrong people is that some guy who writes zero lines of code is making architectural decisions. Don't be that guy.
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The genius that happens when your ops guy majored in English.(blog.lexity.com)
1 points by kentbrew 15y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 15y ago
Where's the option for "I don't use a library?"
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by kentbrew 15y ago
This sort of thing can have a chilling effect, but keep in mind that if they're "well-funded" they will need to have a profitable business model much sooner than you will. Hang in there!
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Google +1 Button Very Phishable in Safari(flickr.com)
3 points by kentbrew 15y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 16y ago
+1 for never styling by IDs, which are global variables and should be used when all else fails.
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by kentbrew 16y ago
This is super-old, you guys. Still useful may be the bits that talk about how to use web-sniffer.net to determine whether your site is serving manifests with the proper MIME type.
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by kentbrew 16y ago
It looks like LEGO's TOS is pretty restrictive if you come in through official channels. They're going to want to moderate your kit and make sure you're not doing anything commercial: http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/Terms/default.aspx?id=
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by kentbrew 16y ago
It won't be the same without Chaos Manor. :(
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Check Your Peephole When You Check In (creepy 90-second video from hotel room)(flic.kr)
2 points by kentbrew 16y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Good man. Thanks!
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Weebly folks: if you really want to recruit decent front-end people, please put this puzzle on a page that isn't chock-full of table-based layout, inline styling, and other icky crap.
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Blekko had me at: "You have marked the site www.w3schools.com as spam. it is now dead to you. You will never see it in your search results again."
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Don't forget to look in East Palo Alto, which isn't nearly as scary as people make it out to be.
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by kentbrew 16y ago
And if you absolutely must "connect" with Facebook or Twitter, please do NOT ask for permission to update my account.
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Why Nerds Are Unpopular. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html Especially this part: "Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. This was no accident. Suburbs are deliberately designed to exclude the outsid
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by kentbrew 16y ago
Lies We Tell Kids: http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html
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by kentbrew 16y ago
What You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
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by kentbrew 16y ago
In the second category ("technicals about a web site") I'm a big fan of http://web-sniffer.net .
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by kentbrew 16y ago
100% right. Get something working on the screen as soon as possible. Then show it to your designer and product people, and get immediate feedback about whether it looks like it's going to work for the audience or not.
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by kentbrew 17y ago
The rest of the site is moribund and on its way to being updated. Thanks for the feedback, though; I may back off on the flippant tone. (Or I may jack it up even further.)
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Aged Internet Explorer Exit (AIEE)(kentbrewster.com)
6 points by kentbrew 17y ago|4 comments
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by kentbrew 17y ago
Caution: hi.im needs input filtering. See http://hi.im/kentbrew for insta-sploit.
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by kentbrew 17y ago
Yeah, this makes me crazy, especially since it always seems to be the clueless project managers who touch my screen. Personally, I have long arms, big hands, and terrible close-up vision, so I approach other people's monitors very slowly, w
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by kentbrew 18y ago
Looks like this has been fixed. I'm going to leave the post up in case people are curious about what was happening.
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by kentbrew 18y ago
Sketerpot has it: the very first thing I always try is a GET to all those Ajax endpoints that the script is POSTing to.
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by kentbrew 20y ago
Please, may we have a mashable feed of some sort? RSS probably wouldn't work, but a JSON object would....
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Badger: Badge Any RSS Feed(kentbrewster.com)
1 points by kentbrew 20y ago|0 comments