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Meet Vivian Sunshine Crawford. My new best friend. (Taken with Instagram at UCSF - Parnassus Campus)

Meet Vivian Sunshine Crawford. My new best friend. (Taken with Instagram at UCSF - Parnassus Campus)

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Other Lives / Bon Iver at the coolest venue I’ve ever been to. (Taken with Instagram at Greek Ampitheatre Berkeley)

Other Lives / Bon Iver at the coolest venue I’ve ever been to. (Taken with Instagram at Greek Ampitheatre Berkeley)

Posted 7 months ago

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Musique Vol. 1 by Daft Punk - $10.00 - Found on Storenvy

Musique Vol. 1 by Daft Punk - $10.00

- Found on Storenvy

Posted 1 year ago

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Tip: Preview Plaintext Emails in Mail.app


Here’s a quick tip. If your team sends out HTML emails, you probably know that it’s important to include an plain text version of the email as well for email clients and phones that don’t support HTML. But when testing emails before they go out, how do you preview the plaintext version of the email?

It’s easy on a Mac using Mail.app. Just hit ⌘-Option-[ and ⌘-Option-] to toggle between the HTML and text-only versions of your email. This is also fun for spying on how other HTML newsletters are converting their content to plaintext.

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Posted 1 year ago

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[STUDY] Can iTunes Ping Take Down Facebook?

No.

Posted 1 year ago
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Frank Chimero: There is a Horse in the Apple Store

I’ve been accused of finding humor in places that others don’t. Laughing at things that don’t immediately seem laughable. In light of that, I LOVed this short essay. It has a sort of John Hodgman on This American Life quality. Definitely worth a read.

There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.

I think, “Why?” What is the villain here that blinds all of these people to this situation? Am I nuts for thinking this is exceptional? Does anyone else see this? Did I accidentally drop acid and not realize? I must take a photo….

Continue reading…

Posted 1 year ago

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My favorite Internet video right now. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please vote for my SXSW panel!

I’ve submitted a panel idea for voting on the topic I know best — the future of e-commerce. I’ve attended SXSW 4 times, but this would be my first time speaking. Please take a second to log in and vote for my panel on the official South By Southwest Panel Picker here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7998

Click here to vote now!

The Future of E-Commerce (Spoiler Alert: It’s Social)

Traditional e-commerce is so Web 1.0. Social shopping, group buying, mobile payments, and more are changing how we shop and sell online. Listen to innovators in the social e-commerce space discuss how they are utilizing the power of the social web to cultivate buying communities around the world.

Questions answered

  • What is social shopping and why is it important?
  • What role does the social graph play in our buying decisions?
  • Which e-commerce platforms are innovating in the social shopping space, and how?
  • How can shopping online be more like shopping in real life?
  • How will people be shopping and selling online in 2015?

Bonus points!

  • My partner in crime, Janette Crawford has also had a pitch accepted for voting. Vote for her panel called “Empowering Conscientious Consumers: Take the Power Back” here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7995
  • Willo O’Brien, an expert in indie merchant stuff, has an excellent proposal on “Social Shopping: The Future of Selling Stuff Online”. Vote for it here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7988
  • Shannon Schlappi also asked me to participate in his panel at SXSW Music which would be AWESOME. I’ve always been meaning to hit up the Music side of the festival, but haven’t had the chance. Vote for “Socially Awkward: The Art of Social Media Transparency” here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/8037

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Posted 1 year ago
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An Exceptional Blog: Send extra data with your exceptions

Have you ever wanted to log the email addresses of users who trigger exceptions in your application? You can add whatever information you like using Exceptional.context - for example, you could include the following in a rails before_filter.

Exceptional.context(:user_id => current_user.id, :email...
I’d been asking for this feature from my friends over at Contrast for a while, and they finally delivered. I’d like to get even more creative with this than the example. I want to save lots of stuff happening in the environment when the exception occurs such as PayPal API calls and responses. If I come up with anything interesting, I’ll post it.

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I just shrank the download size of the Storenvy homepage by almost 50% using an image optimizer called ImageOptim for Mac OS X. If you’re spending a lot of time worrying about how fast your web app is performing, you should take 20 minutes and run this app on your entire images folder. The difference is incredible.

I just shrank the download size of the Storenvy homepage by almost 50% using an image optimizer called ImageOptim for Mac OS X. If you’re spending a lot of time worrying about how fast your web app is performing, you should take 20 minutes and run this app on your entire images folder. The difference is incredible.