Category Archives: Blog
My Little Printer publications
Berg, maker of Little Printer, is shutting down. The future of Little Printer is uncertain. I like my Little Printer though I don’t often press the button to make it print. I’ve been involved in the production of 3 Little Printer publications … Continue reading
Twitterfall Beta changes (26th August 2014)
More changes on the Twitterfall Beta today! Searches show new style retweets too. The suggestion to use Twitlonger is now based on the improved tweet length calculation, so it doesn’t trigger when you’re tweeting long URLs. Expanding conversations is now much faster, … Continue reading
Twitterfall Beta changes (24th August 2014)
If you don’t already know, you can help me test the Twitterfall Beta right now by visiting beta.twitterfall.com. You will almost certainly lose all of your settings on the normal Twitterfall, so don’t do this on a computer that has important … Continue reading
Using Papertrail to monitor for application errors on Heroku
It’s crude but if you need to know when an application errors on Heroku and can’t (be bothered to) install an exception handler into your application’s code you can use the free Papertrail add-on to get alerts via email. Add … Continue reading
How I listen to music
This post was originally published on Medium and was part of Help Me Write. There was a time when I didn’t see why anyone would want to pay for Spotify; why would anyone want to pay for music without owning … Continue reading
Do Not Track support on Rivered
Today I added two new features to Rivered, one for me and one for you. Firstly I have added Mixpanel Analytics to Rivered. This will allow me to better track feature usage and user behaviour which should help me focus … Continue reading
Rivered update – Improved share buttons on mobile
Rivered gives you plenty of options to share and save articles on social networks, bookmarking sites, and so on. A set of icons (you can choose which ones are visible in your account settings) are next to every article on … Continue reading
We halved everything we cooked and realised we ate too much
Eating healthily can be hard, especially when you don’t have much time. If your cooking skill is limited, you’re also likely to have plenty of recipes under your belt that aren’t amazingly healthy for you but you love to have. … Continue reading
Rivered – HTTPS Everywhere
I feel that I have a responsibility to be as verbose and clear as possible on matters that concern security. tl;dr: Rivered now has HTTPS and requires it. This was proactive, not reactive; nothing bad has happened. A discussion in … Continue reading
When you watch someone perform, you’re seeing them at the top of their game
When you watch someone perform, you’re seeing them at the top of their game. When they score the winning point or sell their company for millions — you’re seeing them in their moment of glory. What you don’t see is … Continue reading