There have been many, many comments and emails on my post “Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?” telling me that Facebook has changed things and the bookmarklet is broken. I have made an update that you can find here which will work for users with Facebook Graph Search. They have changed a bunch … Continue reading Updated Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet to Work with Graph Search
I encourage everyone to blog about random bugs and fixes that they have. As the sayings go, most of us on the internet are consumers, not producers. Most of the time you have a problem as you are coding, you are googling for the answer or searching on stack overflow–not necessarily writing a new question. … Continue reading Why Blog About Random Bugs and Fixes
My email inbox has reached notification overload. Let me give you an example. I searched my gmail for from:twitter, and got so many results, that when gmail listed the number of pages, it just said “many.” I would get many twitter emails a day, despite trying each time to unsubscribe. The key factor: I clicked … Continue reading Notification Overload
After reading this article, I went and changed all of my passwords. I usually read security articles like this and skim over them…feeling a bit bummed that it happened, but not really taking it seriously. This one was bad. Take these few highlighted quotes from the early part of the article: In many ways, this was … Continue reading Why You Should Use Rule-Based Passwords
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I do very, very lightweight deployment with git. I found myself doing this over and over again, so here is a little script that does it for you. Now getting your local code on your server is as easy as: server$ python create_repo.py repo.git /your/checkout/directory/ local$ git … Continue reading An Easier Way to Set Up Remote Git Repositories for Lightweight Deployment
I just got a new computer and wanted to see what it took to get it “all set up.” Each step along the way, I realized there were other things I wanted to set up, or little problems in the process, so I kept track of them, in the hopes that this will contribute to … Continue reading Setting Up a New Macbook Pro: The Steps
I always find myself needing to look up this exact syntax. mysql> create database MY_DATABASE character set utf8; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec) mysql> grant all privileges on MY_DATABASE.* to ‘MY_USERNAME’@’localhost’ identified by ‘MY_PASSWORD’; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec) Continue reading Create MySQL Database and Give User Permissions
In today’s post I want to demystify the term HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it is the way that you write web pages. A markup language, according to Wikipedia, is a way to “annotate the text” to provide some additional information. Every webpage has HTML, which includes a set of “tags” to … Continue reading How the Internet Works 9: HTML
There were a ton of comments here telling me that the Facebook bookmarklet that I made broke, and this happened because Facebook changed the name of the file they were using. I’ve updated the post, so the bookmarklet there should work now. Continue reading Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet Works Again
I wrote recently about how everything in computers is stored as 0s and 1s, and the language of computers is binary. You can read about that here. However, one bit or a few bits doesn’t really contain that much information. In general you will be dealing with thousands, or millions, or billions, or even more … Continue reading How the Internet Works 8: Bytes, Megabytes, and More