January 2, 2012
Transparent Business

Occasionally I will be writing this year about progress on Simpleform’s transparent books. Last week I learned how to retrieve and parse my bank account’s transactions. They’re in a format called…

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December 31, 2011
Top MLKSHK Images By Likes

Andy mentioned something about Imgur’s most popular files based on views, so I figured I could find something for MLKSHK.

So here are the top 20 files from this year based on number of likes…

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December 13, 2011
Swings

There are some tree swings popping up in my neighborhood. Gonna see if I can take Mark there sometime this week.

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December 2, 2011
The Berg Cloud Little Printer Alternative

Yesterday Berg announced two products, The Little Printer and Berg Cloud. Everyone was pretty excited about this little printer. It’s so damn cute!

Hello Little Printer,…

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November 28, 2011
NoVIMber Wrap Up

After almost a whole month of using MacVim, I think I can safely say I’m a convert. Whenever I felt I was getting really good with it, I’d switch over to SublimeText and realize I was still much…

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November 15, 2011
Using the Django ORM outside of Django (1.3)

I did this today. I thought I’d write it up so I can remember for next time. I’m working on another project using Django and have liked using the ORM more than any other of the big Python ORMs out…

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November 8, 2011
NoVIMber

Some friends were talking about National Novel Writing Month and since I don’t have an idea for a novel but felt like trying to accomplish something in November, I decided to switch my text editor…

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October 18, 2011
Clocks

I’ve been meaning to point to Adam’s new site: Decommodify. He just posted about his frustrations with his alarm clock. While I don’t use an alarm clock, we do have a clock in our bedroom* that I…

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October 14, 2011
Glitch

I tweeted earlier about Glitch: http://twitter.com/torrez/status/124542343616528384 But I think having 140 characters didn’t give me enough space to fully explain why I am so excited about it. So go…

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October 6, 2011
Hackers

Back when I was younger there used to be this big debate about the meaning of the word “hacking”. In the News it was always used to describe unsavory acts of theft, vandalism, and destruction….

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