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What is your Digital Footprint?
Applications that used to fit in a few megabytes now consume a gigabyte – or more – to do essentially the same thing. I find this development a bit disturbing.
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Life is Precious
My trip home from Brazil took far longer than expected.
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Thought Leadership
A thought leader has to do more than think about problems.
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Client-side Productivity Tools with Node
I’ve been a fan of Node since we were first introduced in 2011. Unfortunately, it’s taken me a few years to come up with a compelling business use for Node.
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Differentiation and Diversity
I’d rather learn something new and struggler at it than be at the top of my game with nowhere to go but down.
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Unexpected Networking
I honestly feel I did more talking and networking while stuck in remote airports and hotels than I’ve ever done at a conference.
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PHP, Security, and Lambdas
If you’re writing PHP code and you want to use lambda functions, don’t use PHP’s create_function() method. It’s insecure, and will be flagged as such by security software and analysts.
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Monkeys in the Machine
Not everyone could be at JSConf BR, so I wanted to give you all a glimpse of the awesomeness that is the worker API.
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When Bigotry became OK
Brendan Eich’s community-forced resignation from Mozilla shows that the community has accepted bigotry as being OK when it’s directed at those previously identified as bigots.
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Air Travel and Elitism
I’m not going to pay $300-1000 more for a first class ticket just to experience a handful of perks. What does that imply about my worth to airline employees?