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I took a week off social media. This is what I learned.
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A Parable for Social Media Addicts
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Last year, I wrote about some trouble we were having with Google’s rich snippets for recipes. In a nutshell, when Google saw the .hentry class on our recipe page, it ignored the .hrecipe class that Google uses to determine if a page is a recipe or not. Subsequently, all of our lovely recipe photos stopped... Read More
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Capturing Pixel Density with Google Analytics
Google Analytics lets you see how many of your users are on mobile devices, but the information you can pull on those devices is woefully limited. One such oversight is pixel density ratio.
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A Better Behaved Infinite Scroll
After several days of trying to integrate the Infinite Scroll plugin into the Simply Recipes mobile site, I finally came up with a solution that works well.
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Resources from the 2013 Eat Write Retreat technical panel.
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An old friend reached out to me recently with sad news that his mother was dying. As you might imagine, he was struggling with how to handle it. The brief back-and-forth we had brought to mind a similar journey I took to the brink of death with my mother-in-law a few years back.
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Sin & Salvation: A Study in Contrasts
Delivered during the 2013 Easter service at Oxford Valley Chapel. Listen online: In 1135, King Henry I of England died with no clear heir to the throne. His only legitimate son William had died 15 years earlier in a shipwreck. He did, however, have a daughter named Matilda and he desired for her to inherit... Read More
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It's like Pinterest and Evernote got together and had a good-looking baby.
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Moving From Google Reader to Fever
In case you were handcuffed to a pole in Jesse Pinkman's basement and missed the announcement, Google Reader is getting put out to pasture this July 1.
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Some code snippets to give you a nice looking Pinterest overlay for your images.
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The best place to start is by realizing that coding is fundamentally about solving problems. It's not about variables or subroutines or even the code itself. Those are just the means to an end. Coding is about identifying problems and finding the best way solve those problems.
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Evaluating 4 Responsive Designs
We've got a Simply Recipes redesign on the horizon, and one of the priorities for this new design will be making it responsive.
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WordPress Publish Confirmation
I don’t typically like confirmation dialog boxes. In nearly all cases, an undo button is the better choice than a confirmation dialog. However, because of our existing WordPress set up, publishing an entry sets off a whole chain of events involving RSS feed readers, caches and a CDN that make it difficult to undo. So... Read More
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The story begins and ends with a Christmas tree.
Hello, I’m Jesse.
