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On Being A Landmark In Someone Else’s Life Journey
People change, but people often have a hard time dealing with other people’s change. Is it possible to sustain vibrant relationships through the process?
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One of our favorite traditions of the Christmas season is making gingerbread houses with the children. Thankfully, they’re at the age where their creativity is starting to take shape and it isn’t just Mom and Dad building the houses. Though we did have to help them frame the house. Thankfully, this year’s frosting held better than... Read More
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This was my first year attending the Circles Conference, put on by my friend Ismael Burciaga, so I wanted to record my first impressions for anyone looking to attend next year (hint: I highly recommend). Let me begin by saying the conference was very well-organized. There was a lot of polish and attention paid even... Read More
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We have lots of different images that make Simply Recipes—more than 40, in fact. The logo, stylistic elements, UI icons, third-party badges, and social media icons, along with double-sized retina versions of many of them. And I haven’t even mentioned the images for our separate mobile template. Aside: When we launched our recent redesign, we moved away from... Read More
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How We Got Our Rich Snippets Back
Several months ago the photos for our recipes disappeared from Google’s search result pages: Not great, since most people search visually, more so when they’re hungry. Now, I don’t like talking much about anything to do with SEO, since the landscape changes so often and I’m left feeling like Google’s little guinea pig. However, I did want... Read More
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Every year since Ethan’s first cleft palate surgery, we meet with the cleft palate team at Children’s Hospital so they can evaluate his progress. They test his speech and his hearing, measure his face and jaw for abnormal growth, and poke around his mouth to see how his palate is forming and his teeth are... Read More
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After much thought and prayer, our family has decided to move back to Upstate New York.
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Review: Pad & Quill Contega Case
TL;DR — This is the best iPad case I've ever owned.
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2013 was relatively uneventful. There weren't any big events. I had such little recollection of what happened in 2013 that I had to reference my Facebook timeline to write this.
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Focus is the thing, and it's tough.
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How the NSA's approach to security is less about protecting us and more about keeping us "exploitable".
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
I've been blogging on and off for almost fifteen years now, and one of the recurring problems I've struggled with is the stifling thought that what I'm writing had to be meaningful and cohesive.
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UPDATE (11-14-13): This has been fixed with the new update. After updating to iOS7 and the newest version of VSCO Cam, I started noticing that the quality of photos I was sharing to Instagram had dropped significantly. My typical workflow is usually direct from VSCO Cam to Instagram, so I noticed it rather quickly. I... Read More
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Since my work at Simply Recipes has been moving more into the video space, I’ve been attempting to teach myself After Effects. To that end, here’s a video of my son, tossing a fireball:
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Our server crashed the other day because the disk was full. I quickly discovered a rogue bandwidth log file not getting cleaned up was to blame, so I deleted it. Strangely, running df after deleting the file showed that 100% of the disk was still in use even though I had gotten rid of the... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
