I will readily admit that I got too much of my news from Twitter, before the implosion. After twitter went away, there was a slight hole in my daily news diet. I started filling that hole with Inoreader and PressReader. Inoreader has a $20/yr “supporter” plan and the app syncs your feeds from device to …
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Last week, Elon Musk bought twitter. As soon as the deal was complete, he fired the chief executive, chief financial officer, and head of legal policy, trust, and safety. That last one was what worries me the most. I have been mirroring my tweets over on mastodon for a while now. I’m planning on staying …
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This past July, I found myself looking for a way to test a web application from behind “the great firewall of China” (aka Golden Shield). The problem is that I can’t test that something works in China if I’m not in China. My first thought was to use Nord VPN to connect to a VPN …
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Last week, Heroku announced that they were killing off their free teir. I have been using it off and on ever since a creating an OWASP Juice Shop instance on it at That Conference, a few years ago. Recently, I used it for my How to deploy a Laravel app example and an example on …
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I recently found out about something called #newprofilepic (that appears to be the name of the site). When you click on their privacy policy, you are taken to pho.to, which advertises their use of “smart algorithms” for “simple photo editing”. I figured that I would give it a swing and it turned out pretty well. …
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A decade ago, I watched a ted talk about Kiva and made my first kiva loan. The first few loans were kind of random but I eventually settled on the goal of giving a loan in every country. Kiva officially works with lenders in 76 countries and I typically gave one loan per month, so …
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If my count is correct, this is my 1000th post on this blog. Since the blog just turned 10 years old, that means that I have been averaging 100 posts per year but there have been years where I only posted one or two things for the whole year.
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It has been exactly 10 years since I posted Changes on this website. This blog has never had a singular focus. It has always just covered what I am interested in at the time. So far, I have published 988 posts (including this one and a few that are scheduled out into the future). I …
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Over the past few weeks, I have mainly been posting content related to the State Parks App and work on that project is not stopping at all but there is some additional content that I really want to work into the weekly schedule. Last week, I posted an update about my preferred coding tools and …
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This is going to be a pretty quick post. I am really excited to announce that I just accepted a new job at Bader Rutter, here in Milwaukee. Bader Rutter is an almost 50-year-old full service agency with offices in Milwaukee and Chicago. I am joining their team as a senior full-stack developer.
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