I’m going to compare Comcast’s XFinity home internet service with T-Mobile home internet. TL;DR XFinity is both faster AND slower than T-Mobile. Read on to understand why.
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Home Office 2: Return of The Couch
Last week, you may have noticed I posted about how I removed the futon couch from my office, which completely opened up the floor plan. That set off a manic couple of…
Three Tips For Time-Shifting: Modern Work Patterns And VCRs
In 1995, I joined the video sales department at my local Circuit City, a national consumer electronics and appliance retailer that shuttered in 2009 and is spoken of (by some) with nostalgia…
Facebook Jail… Again
On Tuesday, I replied to a post on Facebook. A friend works for them and was recently relocated to another country. He was in the U.S. on a business trip and his…
Change bubble colors in Apple Messages / iMessage on iOS
Apple Messages / iMessage on my phone was a pain in the eye… The white-on-green color scheme for outgoing SMS in Apple’s Messages app for iOS is low contrast and thus painful…
Chrome’s Usability Crime
Maybe you’ve noticed the tab search feature on Chrome (see image). It’s that down arrow. For YEARS, the leftmost icon in that group was “minimize.” Not only did Google make the Tab…
The Coding Interview: No Repeats Please
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. This is an algorithm problem. It came in handy…
Simon Clone in JS
In salvaging content from Yiddish.Ninja, I found some playable demos from my retro gaming class at Seattle CoderDojo. The first full game was a Simon clone. This was interesting in a separate…
12 Rules For Good Emails
I’m updating some old posts from an old blog. Here are some of the basic rules of email I’ve picked up over the last 28 years of writing emails, running mailing lists,…
Batch clone your GitHub repos on Windows
Recently I had to do this. I found a shell script that cloned all repositories matching a search query, and edited it to meet my purposes. You’ll need A working installation of…