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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Unusual Alerts from Twitter

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tl;dr: I made push.twtt.rs for your (and my) enjoyment. I wasn't the first to mock up imaginary push notifications from Twitter, and...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Chrome and Emoji

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Simple question: what's the actual reason that chrome on os x doesn't render emoji? — Isaac Hepworth (@isaach) October 30, 2014 ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

In which I get started with a quadcopter drone

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It started with this: Dolores Park, Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Bridge. pic.twitter.com/CO9Emg3KWy — David Chen (@chenosaurus) March 31, 2014 a...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Moving to Boulder, epilogue

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On the fifth day of our trip we drove 42 miles in a perfectly straight line . It made me wonder about the longest perfectly straight sectio...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 9

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15 July 2014 : early start in Glenwood Springs ; Wendy and I had decided that the best strategy to conclude our journey to Boulder was to ca...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 8

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14 July 2014 : we woke up in Glenwood Springs, CO , voted in 2011 the "Most Fun Town in America" by Rand McNally and USA Today. It...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 7

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13 July 2014 : we woke up in Moab and it was hot. And not just "gosh isn't it warm outside" hot, but "oh look parts of t...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 6

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12 July 2014 : we woke up in an Airbnb in Mapleton, UT . This seemingly unassuming place, under $150 for the night, turned out to be our mos...
Friday, August 08, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 5

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11 July 2014 : we wake up in Elko, NV , with a target of Mapleton, UT. That's 280 miles, with 42 of them in a perfectly straight line . ...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 4

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10 July 2014 : Thursday morning we wake up in Tahoe City, CA , with our next night's lodging in Elko, NV. That's a 350 mile journey:...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 3

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9 July 2014 : it's nice to wake up in Tahoe . We went for breakfast in Tahoe City, with a lovely view of the lake After breakfast we gra...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 2

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8 July 2014 : Wendy and Cecilia wake up in Colorado . Lux and I wake up in California for her last day at pre-school. Here she is waiting to...
Monday, August 04, 2014

Moving to Boulder, day 1

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7 July 2014 : Before we know it : first thing, early, Wendy's flying to Colorado with Cecilia and Chaucer . Lux and I took them to the ...
Sunday, August 03, 2014

Moving to Boulder

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Things moved quickly after that date night at the top of Bernal : April 16, Twitter announced that it was acquiring Gnip , a longstanding pa...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Date Night

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Wendy and I moved from Denver to San Francisco in 2005. Unmarried, childless, we found a little place for rent in the Mission , rented it a...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Dropbox and Google Drive

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UPDATED 4/21 : update below from Scott Johnston, Product lead for Google Drive. I figured it was time to move from Dropbox to Google Drive. ...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Disabling Wi-Fi on a Comcast Xfinity Cable Modem

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Judging by traffic and comments, my last technical "how-to" post was a moderate success, and was found by folks Googling for the ...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Working at Twitter

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I find myself interviewing a lot of people for positions at Twitter. In my time here I've been on panels for Product Management, Busine...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Twitter Hackweek, July 2013

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I'm pretty proud of this , which I produced during Twitter's most recent hackweek : It's a map of verified users of Twitter. The...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Zero-Width Space

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Since Buzzfeed picked up my post about stealth fanout on Twitter a few people have asked me how one can best produce a "zero-width sp...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Deathblogging

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My dad has heart failure . My mom has opinions on the matter . A few weeks ago my dad posted one of the most beautiful and moving pieces I...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Stealth Fanout on Twitter

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Sure, on Twitter you can use the ".@" convention to start a Tweet with a username but still have it delivered to all your follower...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Family

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I was on the lookout for something special for Wendy's birthday. And then Josh tweeted I freaking love her drarrings: alessandraolanow....
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Working at Twitter

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I did a little Q&A recently about what it's like working at Twitter. They published the piece this week but included only my answ...
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CES 2013

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I went to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas once. I flew in for a single meeting, in January 2006, and remember that after that I s...
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