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12,000 butts, or How I earned Heroku side-eye

Our story starts here: I built an as-yet-unnamed twilio app, basically like Magic but for Google search results. Go ahead and text it yourself! Send it your search terms and it will return a link to...

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servers, sockets, and a sonnet -- one month in new york

This is my third attempt to write this.Alright, it’s been a month. (Or it was on Wednesday.)I’ve got a knot in my shoulder from carrying my laptop everyday. The IT band on my right leg is tight from so...

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Baby's First Hax0r

The engineers who taught me to program were by and large members of the Stripe’s security and sys1 teams. Important lessons I was taught:Don’t publish your secret keys.Don’t type commands into your...

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"We have always been at war with Eurasia": Class Variables in Ruby

Class variables! What are they, even.Class variables are variables whose value changes across instances! You can recognize them because they are prepended with @@.But that definition is pretty opaque....

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Dedicated Ports of the Internet

I’ve been reading RFC 2616, which if you haven’t read it lays out all the MAYs and MUSTs and SHOULDs for using HTTP (and therefore, the internet as we know it).HTTP is among the protocols designated by...

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Three Dead Protocols

Previously on ugh blog dot jpg etc, I went on for 1000 words about dedicated ports. The tl;dr is that dedicated ports have got RFCs associated with them about what you, the savvy internet user, can...

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Blinking Commits

Last time on ugh blog dot jpg etc, several many thousands of internet people (in, like, a day) came here to read about old protocols. That was very exciting, and I was gobsmacked by all the nice things...

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A Guide to Talking

So you’ve just finished listening to a great presentation, and synapses are firing every which way in that juicy little brain of yours. You feel compelled to ask the speaker a question!But should...

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2015 Year In Review: Ugh, she's gonna get thankful again, isn't she

I’d like to self indulgently take a look at 2015. It was a pretty satisfying year, by which I mean ‘I did a lot of things I’m proud of’, and not ‘this was an easy year’. This was the hardest year with...

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What I Learned at RC: Two Years Late?

It’s a tradition after attending Recurse Center to write about your experience. I attended Summer 2015, over two years ago, and I never wrote my What I Did at RC post.The short version why is that I...

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