Automatically Compressing Your Amazon S3 Images Using Yahoo!’s Smush.it Service

I’m totally obsessed with web site performance. It’s one of those nerd niches that really appeal to me. I’ve blogged a few times previously on the topic. Two years ago, (has it really been that long?) I talked about my experiences rebuilding this site following the best practices of YSlow. A few days later I went into detail about how to host and optimize your static content using Amazon S3 as a content delivery network. Later, I took all the techniques I had learned and automated them with a command line tool called s3up. It’s the easiest way to intelligently …

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How I Use OmniFocus to Organize My Life

I’ve noticed a resurgence on the web of people talking about OmniFocus and how they use the app to manage their task lists. Despite being a user for nearly three years — since the first public beta — for some reason I’ve never gotten around to writing about why I find it so useful and how it fits into my own workflow. So that’s what this post will attempt to do. (Oh, and if you’re one of those readers who likes to skip straight to the end, allow me to save you the trouble: OmniFocus wipes the floor with every …

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