New Music

by barce on January 14, 2013

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How do you keep up with new music? Spotify? Rdio?

I’d love to know! :)

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3 Alternatives to Showing Photos on Twitter after the Instagram Yank

by barce on December 10, 2012

If you post a photo with text from Instagram to Twitter, your photo will no longer show up on Twitter. Lots of blogs have already covered this story. Some have even gone so far as to defend this decision.

If you’re looking for photo services that haven’t yanked Twitter cards. Here are 3 that are cool to use.

  1. There’s Camera+ which has lots of filters and photo editing tools. The main feature that I like about Camera+ is the light box that allows you to select and arrange which images to edit.
    Here’s an example of Camera+ embedded into Twitter.
  2. Path is okay if you don’t mind blasting your closest friends with Twitter updates. The iPad version of this app is really beautiful and lots of thought went into the UI. Here’s its embed.
  3. Via.Me* is hands down the best for power users that need to post images to both Twitter and Facebook. Your photos also show up Pinterest-like on the app’s web page for leisurely desktop viewing. Below is Via.Me in a Twitter card.

* Disclosure: I work on the API at Via.Me.

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How To Back Up WordPress with mysqldump

November 27, 2012

Here’s a quick how to: 1. Tar up the directory: tar cvf WordPress.tar wordpress/. bzip2 WordPress.tar 2. Dump the database. mysqldump –user user_name –password –host example.com –extended-insert=FALSE database_name > database_name.sql I personally use extended-insert set to false because I often have to read the SQL. Here is how to restore from backup: tar zxvf WordPress.tar.bz [...]

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The 10 Commandments for Remote Team Management

November 7, 2012

“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” – Thomas Hobbes This is a list that I compiled during my time as a reluctant work at home coder and manager. I was working at an Ad Agency at the time and really wanted to be at the office. That was [...]

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End of the Bubble or Just a Correction?

September 29, 2012

I parsed the data at CrunchBase.com for startups in San Francisco. Crunchbase has a pretty easy to use API. I wanted to see how much startup funding was coming into San Francisco. Was it close to the $20 million per day during the peak in 1999? It turns out that the peak of this current [...]

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Instagram Introduces Lower Rate Limits

September 12, 2012

I just triggered a rate limit in Instagram by liking photos. It seems that once you trigger it, you are limited to 8 likes per minute. It seems that the rate limit is at 30 per minute to trigger it the first time. Has anybody else run into this?

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What Would Really Get Me To Join Your Startup

August 7, 2012

Full Disclosure: I’m happy where I’m at because I’m getting all my needs met right now. I’m a pretty darned good coder. I’m not the best but I’m not the worst either. I’ve taken a few apps from the small stage to the big stage when it was hard to do so. Now 10 million [...]

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What the Next Rails Will Look Like

August 2, 2012

History repeats itself, yet it is obscure to the very people making it: innovators and inventors. Ruby on Rails was an invention that hit the scene in July of 2004 as a revelation. There was a video that promised that you could make a blog in less than 15 minutes that left many speechless. When [...]

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The Worst Excuse For Not Iterating Quickly: It will break production

July 25, 2012

I’ve got news for you. Production is already broken. There are already 300 bugs and 100,000 or so users with a shitty experience that are considered “edge cases.” By not allowing me root access, or the complete access I need to get stuff done; by putting in a process that is merely there for the [...]

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A week without coffee and Facebook

June 26, 2012

I’ve quit 2 things that I really love, coffee and Facebook. I thought about my life and how much my imagination outstrips my pocketbook. What I’ve found is that I’ve gotta stop giving Mark my data. Here’s what I learned about quitting Facebook, and coffee. There’s a bit of a hangover the first few days. [...]

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