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Ma.gnolia, my favorite social bookmarking service, recently switched from merely supporting OpenID to actually restricting all new user signups to use the authentication platform. This received a lot of attention – most good – while Matt Mullenweg (and others I’m sure) chimed in to say that this method shouldn’t be viewed as a good strategy…

I signed up for del.icio.us in November 2004. I bookmarked a few URLs in the first few months, then didn’t use the service for over a year. I was always teetering between wanting actual browser bookmarks and wanting to have a publicly available list of bookmarks. I used del.icio.us on and off but ended up…

J. Kenji López-Alt exhausted 32 pounds of flour in 100 tests to make 1,536 chocolate chip cookies until he got it just right: For the past few months, I’ve had chocolate chip cookies on the brain. I wake up in the middle of the night with a fresh idea, a new test to run, only…

I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I’ve done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, WordPress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to and care about. This is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Here is how David Karp, founder of Tumblr,…

Although I’m a fan of Subversion as my version control system of choice, I have a few friends that are gushing all over Git. In order to begin my migration to Git, I’ll be needing to install it locally on my Mac. This script, by Martin Bergek, seems to be the simplest way I’ve found…

Fun piece in the New York Times on what makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie. "Like the omelet, which many believe to be the true test of a chef, the humble chocolate chip cookie is the baker’s crucible. So few ingredients, so many possibilities for disaster." If you ask me, all you need to make…

You know when a photo gradually gets more "blurry" as the distance from the camera increases?  That’s the Depth of Field.  Here is a better way to describe it. "Depth of field is the range of distance around the focal plane which is acceptably sharp.  The depth of field varies depending on camera type, aperture…

Ever since the day I began posting my photos to my site, rather than on a photo-sharing service like Flickr, I’ve had the desire to slowly bring all of my "stuff" onto my site rather than spread out through the Interwebs. As it stands I post what I’m currently doing to Twitter, I am testing…

If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then…

The next knot in my string of technological woes lately is the problems that I’ve been having with my WiFi routers. I just can’t seem to ever setup something reliable! The problems with my routers began a few years ago with some old, crappy, blue router that I actually can’t remember where I got it…

The subject of abuse comes up almost daily at Viddler. Whether we’re flagging videos as violations of copyright law, discovering users who try to distribute full films, etc. were always discussing ways of suppressing abuse. Turns out that other services have similar problems of dealing with abuse on a daily basis. San Francisco-based Ma.gnolia doesn’t…

I have a huge list of things I’d like to have on my personal site but can rarely find the time or energy to implement many of them. Recently though I was able to scrape together enough of both to add two very subtle things that I’ve wanted to see on the site for a…

Today I’m working out of the offices of Ma.gnolia, in downtown San Francisco, and it is turning out to be quite a day! This morning I was, finally, able to begin uploading some video from WordCamp onto Viddler. I noticed I was having a few hiccups while doing so, but wasn’t sure where the problem…

Three hundred and sixty five days. Fifty two weeks. Twelve months. One year. No matter how it is said I can’t believe how far we’ve come. How much we’ve learned and lost and how excited I am to start another year! Over the last few weeks I’ve had hundreds of ideas for how I’d write…

Just one week shy of a full year on this diet! This week has been a great week though at the moment I feel like I went a few rounds with the champ. I can has cramp Last week was the normal exercise and workout activities but near the end of the week Chris and…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Overlooking Denver, Colorado So what do you do when you’re tens of thousands of feet above the Earth, looking down at nothing but the clouds that most people are seeing above their heads? Well, I write – finally – about heading to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo. The entire Viddler team is converging…