Owning My Internet
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For some access, I use an anonymous VPN proxy. When publishers block that kind of a VPN, I instead roll my own network with a Raspberry Pi from home.
Eric Mann
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Email Lock-down
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Thanks to the beauty of open source (and other, smarter developers who’ve already traveled down this rabbit hole), I don’t have to figure out how to set up a personal mail server on my own. All of the tools are readily available!
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Refactoring in Real Life
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It’s truly wonderful what can be wrought when you reuse or recycle materials and give them a second life.
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Security, Internationalization, and Performance
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When I began writing code for WordPress projects, I had no idea how to properly internationalize my content, There were a few blog posts at the time that accused developers like me of doing a disservice to our customers. I took offense at the time, but they had a point. Internationalization is extraordinarily important for
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Deprecate Magic Constructors in PHP
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Along the lines of the argument to make code easier to understand for quick readers, I want to propose something a little less radical and just as useful for devs: Deprecate the magic `__construct()` function.
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The Value of HTTPS Everywhere
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GoGo Inflight is eavesdropping on your traffic!
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Community Support
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You don’t have to understand why someone wants your help living their dream. Just recognize that, if you’re already living yours, you might just have been in a better place to get there; their road might be harder to walk.
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Gardening and God
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It’s difficult to be working among creation and not think of the creator.
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Wireless Safety
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Beware of who else might be watching your wireless traffic … and what they might be doing with that information.
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Workaholics Anonymous
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How do you define your happiness? How diverse is that definition? Who controls it?