A few weeks ago, I caught a YouTube video on how to hide wires and cords in an effort to create a completely “wireless” desk look. I was basically born a slob and whatever desk I’ve been working at for the last 25 years doing tech work has usually resembled a disaster area. So I …
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How to be a writer on a marketing team without sounding like a jerk
I spent close to seven years in a marketing department on a content team as I wrote blog posts, ebooks, tweets, podcast episodes, magazine pieces, and slide decks among other things. Based on all that experience, I wanted to share some lessons I learned from my time there, and this is the first: Try not …
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How to create your own VPN with Tailscale to get around stupid free WiFi network rules and protect your traffic
Today I pulled into a car dealership for some scheduled service, went to the waiting area, joined the free WiFi, then tried to pull up a YouTube video someone sent me. I got a DNS error. Then I tried to use my Twitter DMs to send a message to a friend I might see this …
How to get a daily Nancy comic in your Slack
I love the new Nancy comics, and I love having them delivered automatically to me. For a while, I used a pirate RSS feed someone made that listed each day’s comic, which could easily be piped into any RSS reader (Slack consumes RSS, so that’s how I started). But then the feed came to a …
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Using a prepaid Koodo iPhone SIM in Canada (as a traveling American)
Note: This is a guide aimed at getting a fast, semi-cheap, data/voice/text plan for Americans with unlocked phones traveling in Canada and information is up-to-date as of November 2013. Whenever I travel to another country, about a week before the trip I hit up the prepaid SIM travel wikia page for info on cheap options …
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How to: doing time-lapse driving videos with a GoPro Hero3
A few months ago, I picked up a GoPro Hero 3 camera and I recorded a few bike races on it. While playing with the integrated iPhone app, I noticed there was a time-lapse option so I decided to play around with it. After an hour of testing on a couple short drives, I tried …
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Listening to podcasts piecemeal: huffduffer & Instacast
For the past few years, there’s been a site called huffduffer (started by Jeremy Keith) that lets you link to bits of audio you find online and it shows you popular items across the service. I’ve always thought of it as Instapaper or delicious for audio, but I never found myself considering it a useful …
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Keystroke links: Using Coda 2 to write blog posts
Up until recently, my favorite text editor was TextMate, and I not only used it to write code for websites, I also used to write blog posts in it. It had this hard-to-find feature that would let you highlight a word, and turn it into a link that lead to whatever was in your …
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How to record a kickass podcast between two macs — and cheap!
I’ve updated this with a lot more info over on my Fortuitous Blog: Everything I’ve learned about Podcasting A lot of people ask me how I do the MetaFilter Podcast (warning: the podcast makes no sense to anyone outside of MetaFilter uberfans). I know they don’t mean “how do you do it man, you’re making …
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