Writing
Citizen Microsoft
by Jeff Reifman
Microsoft’s Sacred
Cash Cow
Social Investing, Jeff Reifman
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Selected pieces by Jeff Reifman. View the rest by sorting by year or topic above.
Best of
- How Our Success is Ruining Seattle, also in BoingBoing, Slashdot and mentioned in Crosscut, GeekWire
- Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses (Tuts+)
- What We Can Learn From My Brain Tumor, also in BoingBoing and republished in Elephant Journal
- Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze
- Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds, also in Slashdot and at Chris Guillebeau
- Series: Building Your Startup With PHP (Tuts+)
- ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future (Geekwire), also in Slashdot
- Series: Programming with Yii2 (Tuts+)
- Using Science to Heal from Breakups
- Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Ask Microsoft shareholders (Crosscut)
- Shining Light on Internet Rage (Medium)
- How anti-slavery law created American corporate personhood (BoingBoing), also in BoingBoing
- You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Geekwire), also in Geekwire, Slashdot, Salon here and here, Dame Magazine, Glamour, Seattlish, The Stranger’s Slog, MyNorthwest, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, TechEye and PSBJ here and here
- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- A Bill of Rights for Occupy Communities (CommonDreams), also in This Changes Everything!
- Turning Occupation Into Lasting Change (BoingBoing)
- How we caught Wired Magazine’s Evan Ratliff
- Investing for Change (Seattle Weekly)
- Citizen Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
- Antarctic Traveler (Grist)
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Assorted writing by Jeff Reifman. View by highlights or sort by year or topic.
2015
- Building with the Twitter API: Managing Lists (Tuts+)
- Building with the Twitter API: The Power of Lists (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Use a VPN for Privacy and Security (Tuts+)
- No Longer Ethical to Shop at Amazon (Flee the Jungle), also in Sky Valley Chronicle
- OwnCloud Application Extensions (Tuts+)
- Amazon and its ‘Brogrammers’ are taking over Seattle, which is doing nothing for diversity (Real Change News), also in Sky Valley Chronicle
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Mobile solutions (Tuts+)
- Exploring OwnCloud Client Applications (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Browser solutions (Tuts+)
- Introduction to OwnCloud Server: File Sharing Under Your Control (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Keybase (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Cut Our Spending at Amazon
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Using GPG Tools (Tuts+)
- It’s Time To Encrypt Your Email (Tuts+), also in BoingBoing and Slashdot
- Amazon Exaggerates Its Support for Affordable Housing (Crosscut)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Intro (Tuts+)
- Amazon Misleads the Associated Press About Seattle Affordable Housing
- Introduction to the Instagram API (Tuts+)
- How Our Success is Ruining Seattle, also in BoingBoing, Slashdot and mentioned in Crosscut, GeekWire
- Microsoft Begins Returning Proceeds from Tax Dodging, also in Slashdot
- Introduction to Google DFP: Beginning Ad Integration To Your Website (Tuts+)
- Using the GMAIL API (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Google DFP Small Business (Tuts+)
- Getting Started with CraftCMS (Tuts+)
- Self-Hosting Your Own Analytics Server (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Twitter, FB Connect & OAuth & Google Auth (Tuts+)
- Introduction to CraftCMS (Tuts+)
- Programming with Yii2: Rich Text Editor Redactor (Tuts+)
- Using Digital Ocean to Manage DNS (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Jenkins: An Open Source Continuous Integration Server (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Working With Asset Bundles (Tuts+)
- Launching WordPress at Digital Ocean With Server Pilot (Tuts+)
- Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Cloud Instances (Tuts+)
- Fear Never Rides Alone (Elephant Journal)
- Programming With Yii2: Specialized Validations (Tuts+)
- Building an App Image to Resell at Digital Ocean (Tuts+)
- Introduction to MailTrap: A Fake SMTP Server for Pre-Production Testing of Application Email (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Validations (Tuts+)
- Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses: The Twitter API (Tuts+)
- E-mail List Alternatives With PHP: Using Mailgun’s List API (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Timestamp Behavior (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Blameable Behaviors (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling Availability and Choices (Tuts+)
- Introduction to BitTorrent Sync (Tuts+)
- How to Comment on the Web (New York Observer)
- Programming With Yii2: Sluggable Behavior (Tuts+)
- Operating with Fear
- How to Respond to Internet Rage (New York Observer), also at Medium
- Introduction to Stellar: A Decentralized, Nonprofit Infrastructure for Financial Transactions (Tuts+)
- Amazon’s Impact on Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood, also in Slashdot
- Preparing Digital Assets for Your Eventual Death (Tuts+)
- Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses to Important Events (Tuts+)
- Localize Your Web Application for Any Country With the Google Translate API (Tuts+)
- Hosting Your Website After Your Death (Tuts+)
- What We Can Learn From My Brain Tumor, also in BoingBoing
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Customizing the Roundcube Web Mail Client (Tuts+)
- CloudBerry Explorer: Fast, Effective File Manager for Amazon S3 and the Cloud (Tuts+)
- CloudBerry Box: Securely Synchronize Data From Windows in the Amazon, Azure and HP Clouds (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling a Meeting (Tuts+)
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Administering iRedMail (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: User Access Controls (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: User Settings, Profile Images and Contact Details (Tuts+)
- Codeship: Deployment Pipelines and ParallelCI for Faster Results (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup: Access Control, Active Record Relations and Slugs (Tuts+)
- Codeship: Continuous Integration and Delivery Made Simple (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Localization With I18n (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Integrating User Registration (Tuts+)
- Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze After Forty
- Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds, also in Slashdot and at Chris Guillebeau
- Using Tynt To Extend Copy and Paste On WordPress Sites (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Working With the Database and Active Record (Tuts+)
- How to Restore Your WordPress Website With CodeGuard (Tuts+)
- Why You Shouldn’t Try to Host Your Email (Geekwire)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Localization With I18n (Tuts+)
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server (Tuts+)
- Protecting Your Keys From GitHub (Tuts+)
- Diagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic (Tuts+)
- Using Squire, a Lightweight HTML5 Rich Text Editor (Tuts+)
- Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan, also in Slashdot
- Accelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN (Tuts+)
- WordPressium: Creating a Medium-like Experience (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Geolocation and Google Places (Tuts+)
- Build Your Own URL Shortener With YOURLS (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Exploring MVC, Forms and Layouts (Tuts+)
- Introducing JScrambler: Protect Your Code (Tuts+)
- Import and Archive Your Tweets With WordPress (Tuts+)
- How Seahawk Are You? Sorry, Not Much (Geekwire)
- Build Your Own T-Shirt Shop With the Spreadshirt WordPress Plugin (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Repeating Tweets From a Group (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Feature Requirements and Database Design (Tuts+)
- Introduction to New Relic Synthetics (Tuts+)
- How to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard (Tuts+)
- The Benefits of Using the Free Shortcoder Plugin (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Tweet Storms (Tuts+)
- Using Google Two-Factor Authentication With WordPress (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin with WordPress (Tuts+)
2014
- Get a Fast Start with the Mailgun Plugin for WordPress (Tuts+)
- Drill Down Into Stackify’s Smart Error and Log Management (Tuts+)
- Generate Notifications From Your Web App With the Pushover API (Tuts+)
- Revisiting Open Source Social Networking: Installing GNU Social (Tuts+)
- Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives (Tuts+), also in Slashdot
- Building With the Twitter API: OAuth, Reading and Posting (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Using Real-Time Streams (Tuts+)
- Introduction to New Relic Insights (Tuts+)
- ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future (Geekwire), also in Slashdot
- Building With the Twitter API: REST API (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Tablesorter (Tuts+)
- Programming with Yii2: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Outrage over FBI’s online tactics highlights knee-jerk Internet culture (Geekwire), also in Slashdot
- Real User Monitoring with New Relic Browser (Tuts+)
- Securing Your Server Login (Tuts+)
- Building on IMAP with PHP (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Ghost 0.5 (Tuts+)
- Publishing an eBook with WordPress (Tuts+)
- Using Science to Heal from Breakups
- Generate Social Media Activity With Social Locker (Tuts+)
- Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance (Tuts+)
- How to Build Rate Limiting into Your Web App Login (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin for Web Development (Tuts+)
- Be the First on Your Block Running IPv6 (Tuts+)
- Letter to the Editor Regarding Cutoff Culture Essay (The Guardian)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Tuts+)
- Introduction to the Yii Framework (Tuts+)
- Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders (Crosscut)
- Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts (Tuts+)
- Shining Light on Internet Rage (Medium)
- Building an App from Your WordPress Site with AppPresser (Tuts+)
- Five Ways Your Medical Insurance Defines Deductible (Crosscut)
- How anti-slavery law created American corporate personhood (BoingBoing)
- Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache (Tuts+)
- Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud (Tuts+)
- Amazon’s Impact on Dating Resonated Widely
- Affordable Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do? (Crosscut)
- Turn on your data for one minute, AT&T sticks you with a $750 international roaming charge (BoingBoing), also in Slashdot, and T-Mobile CEO John Legere
- Election records: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes often, votes rarely (Geekwire)
- Publishing with WordPress
- Regarding the Controversy over Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Geekwire), also in Geekwire, Slashdot, Salon here and here, Dame Magazine, Glamour, Seattlish, The Stranger’s Slog, MyNorthwest, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, TechEye and PSBJ here and here
- It’s Time for a Populist War on Corruption (Medium)
- How to Secure Your Mac from Potential Theft, also in The Loop and The Chronicle
- How to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
- DIY IMAP Mail Filtering with features such as Routing, Quiet Hours, Whitelisting and Message Encryption (BoingBoing)
- How to Encrypt Messages in Gmail
2013
- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans, also in Slashdot
- Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK (Mailgun)
- Do It Yourself Server and Web Site Monitoring with iOS/Android Notifications Using Pushover (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Slashdot), (source)
- How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL (Mailgun)
- Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature (The Stranger)
- WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall (BoingBoing)
- Third Anniversary of Washington State’s Big Tax Gift to Microsoft
- Using WordPress with Amazon Web Services
- How to Run Your Own Email Server in the Amazon Cloud – and GMail Alternatives (Jeff Reifman)
- Court whacking of Seattle on phone books lets corporations run legally amok (Crosscut)
2012
- The Stranger Is Wrong to Mock I-103 (The Stranger)
- Good Activism Breaks Law (Envision Seattle)
- How Phonebook Companies Are Wasting Seattle Taxpayers’ Money (Envision Seattle)
- Seattle’s stand against treating corporations as people (Crosscut)
- Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Initiative 103 Provides Tools Seattle Needs to Protect Our Community (Envision Seattle)
- How Things Change as Constitutional Rights Contract and Expand for People and Corporations (Envision Seattle)
- Pacific Northwest Emerging as a Stronghold for a New Kind of Activism (Envision Seattle)
- Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions in State Taxes, (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Nevada Tax Dodge and Its Impact on State Education
- Microsoft Won’t Release Royalty Tax Payments
- A Bill of Rights for Occupy Communities (CommonDreams), also in This Changes Everything!
2011
- Turning Occupation Into Lasting Change (BoingBoing)
- Model Net Neutrality Ordinance for Seattle (Slashdot)
- How to Legislate Net Neutrality in Your Community
- Why a Free and Open Internet Matters in Seattle
- The challenge of partnerships: NewsCloud looks back on a Knight-funded project that didn’t pan out (Nieman Lab)
2010
- How to Save $420 on Your Comcast Cable Bill This Year (TechFlash), also in Slashdot
- Twelve Gmail Ideas to Revolutionize Email (Again) (TechFlash)
- Dummies Guide to Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
- Raised by Radio Shack (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Microsoft wins its $100M tax-break and amnesty from broke-*** Washington State (BoingBoing)
- 10% Tax on Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut for MSFT (Slashdot)
- Microsoft to Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty (Slashdot)
2009
- Pay your tax, Bill! (TechFlash)
- Microsoft Freeloading in Washington State Courts (Slashdot)
- How we caught Wired Magazine’s Evan Ratliff
- Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier? (Nieman Reports)
- What to expect from the Apple MacPad: predicting the release of the long-rumored Mac Tablet (Slashdot), (archive)
- Microsoft’s Ten Year Disconnect Between Corporate Profit and Shareholder Returns
2008
2007
- Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications (Slashdot)
- How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook? (SysCon), also in Slashdot. Archive
- Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (Slashdot)
- Google AdSense API Closes to Small Sites (Slashdot)
- Facebook Leaves Advertisers Exposed to Hate Speech (Slashdot)
- Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties (Slashdot)
- Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio (Slashdot)
2006
2005
2004
- So You Want to Host Your Own Linux Server (Slashdot)
- Citizen Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
- Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow (Seattle Weekly)
2003
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Assorted writing by Jeff Reifman. View by highlights or sort by year or topic.
Culture
- How Our Success is Ruining Seattle, also in BoingBoing, Slashdot and mentioned in Crosscut, GeekWire
- Fear Never Rides Alone (Elephant Journal)
- How to Comment on the Web (New York Observer)
- Operating with Fear
- How to Respond to Internet Rage (New York Observer), also at Medium
- What We Can Learn From My Brain Tumor, also in BoingBoing
- Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze After Forty
- Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds, also in Slashdot and at Chris Guillebeau
- How Seahawk Are You? Sorry, Not Much (Geekwire)
- Using Science to Heal from Breakups
- Letter to the Editor Regarding Cutoff Culture Essay (The Guardian)
- Shining Light on Internet Rage (Medium)
- Amazon’s Impact on Dating Resonated Widely
- Regarding the Controversy over Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Geekwire), also in Geekwire, Slashdot, Salon here and here, Dame Magazine, Glamour, Seattlish, The Stranger’s Slog, MyNorthwest, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, TechEye and PSBJ here and here
- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- Investing for Change (Seattle Weekly)
Democracy
- Outrage over FBI’s online tactics highlights knee-jerk Internet culture (Geekwire), also in Slashdot
- How anti-slavery law created American corporate personhood (BoingBoing)
- It’s Time for a Populist War on Corruption (Medium)
- Court whacking of Seattle on phone books lets corporations run legally amok (Crosscut)
- The Stranger Is Wrong to Mock I-103 (The Stranger)
- Good Activism Breaks Law (Envision Seattle)
- How Phonebook Companies Are Wasting Seattle Taxpayers’ Money (Envision Seattle)
- Seattle’s stand against treating corporations as people (Crosscut)
- Initiative 103 Provides Tools Seattle Needs to Protect Our Community (Envision Seattle)
- How Things Change as Constitutional Rights Contract and Expand for People and Corporations (Envision Seattle)
- Pacific Northwest Emerging as a Stronghold for a New Kind of Activism (Envision Seattle)
- A Bill of Rights for Occupy Communities (CommonDreams), also in This Changes Everything!
- Turning Occupation Into Lasting Change (BoingBoing)
- How to Legislate Net Neutrality in Your Community
Healthcare
Microsoft
- Microsoft Begins Returning Proceeds from Tax Dodging, also in Slashdot
- Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders (Crosscut)
- Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature (The Stranger)
- WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall (BoingBoing)
- Third Anniversary of Washington State’s Big Tax Gift to Microsoft
- Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions in State Taxes, (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Nevada Tax Dodge and Its Impact on State Education
- Microsoft Won’t Release Royalty Tax Payments
- Dummies Guide to Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
- Microsoft wins its $100M tax-break and amnesty from broke-*** Washington State (BoingBoing)
- 10% Tax on Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut for MSFT (Slashdot)
- Microsoft to Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty (Slashdot)
- Pay your tax, Bill! (TechFlash)
- Microsoft Freeloading in Washington State Courts (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Ten Year Disconnect Between Corporate Profit and Shareholder Returns
- Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio (Slashdot)
- Citizen Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
- Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow (Seattle Weekly)
Technology
- Building with the Twitter API: Managing Lists (Tuts+)
- Building with the Twitter API: The Power of Lists (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Use a VPN for Privacy and Security (Tuts+)
- No Longer Ethical to Shop at Amazon (Flee the Jungle), also in Sky Valley Chronicle
- OwnCloud Application Extensions (Tuts+)
- Amazon and its ‘Brogrammers’ are taking over Seattle, which is doing nothing for diversity (Real Change News), also in Sky Valley Chronicle
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Mobile solutions (Tuts+)
- Exploring OwnCloud Client Applications (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Browser solutions (Tuts+)
- Introduction to OwnCloud Server: File Sharing Under Your Control (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Keybase (Tuts+)
- It’s Time to Cut Our Spending at Amazon
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Using GPG Tools (Tuts+)
- It’s Time To Encrypt Your Email (Tuts+), also in BoingBoing and Slashdot
- Amazon Exaggerates Its Support for Affordable Housing (Crosscut)
- It’s Time to Start Using PGP Encryption – Intro (Tuts+)
- Amazon Misleads the Associated Press About Seattle Affordable Housing
- Introduction to the Instagram API (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Google DFP: Beginning Ad Integration To Your Website (Tuts+)
- Using the GMAIL API (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Google DFP Small Business (Tuts+)
- Getting Started with CraftCMS (Tuts+)
- Self-Hosting Your Own Analytics Server (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Twitter, FB Connect & OAuth & Google Auth (Tuts+)
- Introduction to CraftCMS (Tuts+)
- Programming with Yii2: Rich Text Editor Redactor (Tuts+)
- Using Digital Ocean to Manage DNS (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Jenkins: An Open Source Continuous Integration Server (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Working With Asset Bundles (Tuts+)
- Launching WordPress at Digital Ocean With Server Pilot (Tuts+)
- Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Cloud Instances (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Specialized Validations (Tuts+)
- Building an App Image to Resell at Digital Ocean (Tuts+)
- Introduction to MailTrap: A Fake SMTP Server for Pre-Production Testing of Application Email (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Validations (Tuts+)
- Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses: The Twitter API (Tuts+)
- E-mail List Alternatives With PHP: Using Mailgun’s List API (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Timestamp Behavior (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Blameable Behaviors (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling Availability and Choices (Tuts+)
- Introduction to BitTorrent Sync (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Sluggable Behavior (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Stellar: A Decentralized, Nonprofit Infrastructure for Financial Transactions (Tuts+)
- Amazon’s Impact on Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood, also in Slashdot
- Preparing Digital Assets for Your Eventual Death (Tuts+)
- Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses to Important Events (Tuts+)
- Localize Your Web Application for Any Country With the Google Translate API (Tuts+)
- Hosting Your Website After Your Death (Tuts+), also in Slashdot
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Customizing the Roundcube Web Mail Client (Tuts+)
- CloudBerry Explorer: Fast, Effective File Manager for Amazon S3 and the Cloud (Tuts+)
- CloudBerry Box: Securely Synchronize Data From Windows in the Amazon, Azure and HP Clouds (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling a Meeting (Tuts+)
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Administering iRedMail (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: User Access Controls (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: User Settings, Profile Images and Contact Details (Tuts+)
- Codeship: Deployment Pipelines and ParallelCI for Faster Results (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup: Access Control, Active Record Relations and Slugs (Tuts+)
- Codeship: Continuous Integration and Delivery Made Simple (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Localization With I18n (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Integrating User Registration (Tuts+)
- Using Tynt To Extend Copy and Paste On WordPress Sites (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Working With the Database and Active Record (Tuts+)
- How to Restore Your WordPress Website With CodeGuard (Tuts+)
- Why You Shouldn’t Try to Host Your Email (Geekwire)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Localization With I18n (Tuts+)
- Running Your Own Open Source Email Server (Tuts+)
- Protecting Your Keys From GitHub (Tuts+)
- Diagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic (Tuts+)
- Using Squire, a Lightweight HTML5 Rich Text Editor (Tuts+)
- Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan, also in Slashdot
- Accelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN (Tuts+)
- WordPressium: Creating a Medium-like Experience (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Geolocation and Google Places (Tuts+)
- Build Your Own URL Shortener With YOURLS (Tuts+)
- Programming With Yii2: Exploring MVC, Forms and Layouts (Tuts+)
- Introducing JScrambler: Protect Your Code (Tuts+)
- Import and Archive Your Tweets With WordPress (Tuts+)
- Build Your Own T-Shirt Shop With the Spreadshirt WordPress Plugin (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Repeating Tweets From a Group (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Feature Requirements and Database Design (Tuts+)
- Introduction to New Relic Synthetics (Tuts+)
- How to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard (Tuts+)
- The Benefits of Using the Free Shortcoder Plugin (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Tweet Storms (Tuts+)
- Using Google Two-Factor Authentication With WordPress (Tuts+)
- Building Your Startup With PHP: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin with WordPress (Tuts+)
- Get a Fast Start with the Mailgun Plugin for WordPress (Tuts+)
- Drill Down Into Stackify’s Smart Error and Log Management (Tuts+)
- Generate Notifications From Your Web App With the Pushover API (Tuts+)
- Revisiting Open Source Social Networking: Installing GNU Social (Tuts+)
- Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives (Tuts+), also in Slashdot
- Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: OAuth, Reading and Posting (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Using Real-Time Streams (Tuts+)
- Introduction to New Relic Insights (Tuts+)
- ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future (Geekwire), also in Slashdot
- Building With the Twitter API: REST API (Tuts+)
- Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Tablesorter (Tuts+)
- Programming with Yii2: Getting Started (Tuts+)
- Real User Monitoring with New Relic Browser (Tuts+)
- Securing Your Server Login (Tuts+)
- Building on IMAP with PHP (Tuts+)
- Introduction to Ghost 0.5 (Tuts+)
- Publishing an eBook with WordPress (Tuts+)
- Generate Social Media Activity With Social Locker (Tuts+)
- Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance (Tuts+)
- How to Build Rate Limiting into Your Web App Login (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin for Web Development (Tuts+)
- Be the First on Your Block Running IPv6 (Tuts+)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Tuts+)
- Introduction to the Yii Framework (Tuts+)
- Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts (Tuts+)
- Building an App from Your WordPress Site with AppPresser (Tuts+)
- Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache (Tuts+)
- Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud (Tuts+)
- Affordable Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do? (Crosscut)
- Turn on your data for one minute, AT&T sticks you with a $750 international roaming charge (BoingBoing), also in Slashdot, and T-Mobile CEO John Legere
- Election records: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes often, votes rarely (Geekwire)
- Publishing with WordPress
- Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans, also in Slashdot
- Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK (Mailgun)
- How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL (Mailgun)
- Using WordPress with Amazon Web Services
- Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Model Net Neutrality Ordinance for Seattle (Slashdot)
- Why a Free and Open Internet Matters in Seattle
- The challenge of partnerships: NewsCloud looks back on a Knight-funded project that didn’t pan out (Nieman Lab)
- How to Save $420 on Your Comcast Cable Bill This Year (TechFlash), also in Slashdot
- Twelve Gmail Ideas to Revolutionize Email (Again) (TechFlash)
- Raised by Radio Shack (BoingBoing), (archive)
- How we caught Wired Magazine’s Evan Ratliff
- Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier? (Nieman Reports)
- What to expect from the Apple MacPad: predicting the release of the long-rumored Mac Tablet (Slashdot), (archive)
- Confirmed: Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Can Break Your MacBook Pro, (Slashdot)
- Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications (Slashdot)
- How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook? (SysCon), also in Slashdot. Archive
- Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (Slashdot)
- Google AdSense API Closes to Small Sites (Slashdot)
- Facebook Leaves Advertisers Exposed to Hate Speech (Slashdot)
- Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties (Slashdot)
- What do Firefox and Social Justice have in common? (Slashdot)
- So You Want to Host Your Own Linux Server (Slashdot)
Travel
Tutorials
- How to Secure Your Mac from Potential Theft, also in The Loop and The Chronicle
- How to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
- DIY IMAP Mail Filtering with features such as Routing, Quiet Hours, Whitelisting and Message Encryption (BoingBoing)
- How to Encrypt Messages in Gmail
- Do It Yourself Server and Web Site Monitoring with iOS/Android Notifications Using Pushover (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Run Your Own Email Server in the Amazon Cloud – and GMail Alternatives (Jeff Reifman)
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