tl;dr One evening last week, I built pretty much the simplest URL shortening service possible. It's simple, fast, opinionated, keeps track of click-thru stats, and does everything I need. It's all self-contained in a single PHP script (and .htaccess file). No dependencies,…
read the full post →One of my favorite benefits of following a GTD workflow is that it eliminates a lot of the decision making for you. When it's time to get work done, just fire up your task manager of choice, switch to your list of…
read the full post →Five years ago I went all-in and migrated my ancient iPhoto library to generic files and folders on disk inside of Dropbox. I wanted something I could access from anywhere, and – perhaps more importantly – was future-proof. I liked this solution…
read the full post →I think it was David Allen who said you can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want. It's ironic how an attempt to do everything will actually keep you from doing anything. —Shawn Blanc A few weeks ago,…
read the full post →I've always been fascinated with geo technologies and location based services. When I worked for Yahoo!, I was always bugging Tom Coates and Gary Gale about all things geo – including the sadly ahead of its time FireEagle web service. Anyway, for…
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