the soapbox

This quote from today’s Clients From Hell newsletter is a lot like what I posted about last week: Clients will often claim that they can get a man in Malaysia at one-tenth your price point, or that there’s a fresh-faced kid who’s hungry for your work. They’re not wrong, but they are short-sighted. That kid […]

Social Networks Are Making Us Lonely – JacksGap.

In this Wired article on Dropbox, the fact that Dropbox hired Facebook’s “first female employee” was mentioned. I’m not interested in how Dropbox is acquiring talent — though I happily use Dropbox and look forward to more app developers incorporating Dropbox into their platforms. Rather, I’m interested in this “first female employee” thing. Because a […]

I’m presenting again at WordCamp SLC. This time on internationalization in WordPress, something fresh on my mind from having just finished my last Pluralsight course on the same topic.

I released an update to the Cat Signal plugin that fixes some issues that were introduced in the last update. If you’re using it, make sure you update before the campaign tomorrow. Internet Defense League Cat Signal

On the 4th the Internet Defense League is launching the Cat Signal in protest of PRISM and NSA spying on American citizens. Seems like a good time to download my Cat Signal plugin for WordPress, if you haven’t already. Thunderclap: July 4th: Protest NSA Spying.

I was going to title this post “Private Internet Access: It’s like a condom for the internet” but the resulting image was a bit too graphic even for me. I must be getting old. A few months ago, I started using BTGuard. It’s a proxy server that can be used for BitTorrent to route your […]

  CISPA is back..

This week is the 20th anniversary of the open internet — the day the researchers at CERN renounced the patent on the world wide web. Had they not done that, this post would likely have been brought to you by Associated Press. ‘The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web’ : […]

When you’re creative and in college (and possibly even earlier than that), you’re filled with enthusiasm, optimism and ideas. Ideas that you believe to be the most important things in the world. At a certain point, the optimism fades, the enthusiasm fades, and what’s left is bitterness. We’re told that this is called “growing up” […]

May be time to permanently start using a VPN to browse the internet.