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16 Jul

Andy Smith 6 min read

Moving fast should not mean breaking things for your users. While testing on localhost is a good start, you need a near identical replica of production to catch any bugs before your code goes live. That is where a staging environment comes in. Heroku pipelines handle the infrastructure layout for you, keeping your deployment workflow clean and automated. The post…

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19 Jan 2016

Matt Cutts 2 min read

I solved a problem today and figured that I’d document it for the rest of the world. Every time someone left me a voicemail on Verizon, I would get a cryptic text from Verizon at 900080006202 that looked like “//VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=NM;id=1;c=1;t=v;s=1XXXXXXXXXX;dt=18/01/2016 13:40-0900;l=13;dev_t=5” or “//VZWVVM:SYNC:ev=MBU;dev_t=5”. Here’s what happened. It turns out that Verizon has three kinds of […]

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19 Feb 2015

Matt Cutts 1 min read

Whether you’re running a web service or a blog, you should always keep your software fully patched to prevent attacks and minimize your attack surface. Another smart step is to prevent full path disclosures. For example, if your blog or service throws an error like “Warning: require(ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file […]

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14 Dec 2014

Matt Cutts 4 min read

A few months ago I saw a cool mosaic effect in a Wired ad for CA Technologies. Here’s what part of the ad looked like: I liked the ad, so I wondered how they did it. Can you see out how to create a similar effect? Take a minute to figure it out as an […]

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8 Nov 2014

Matt Cutts 1 min read

A few years ago I read some short financial advice by Scott Adams, the author and creator of the Dilbert cartoon. It’s great advice–it’s perfect for 95% of Americans’ finances and investing. Without further ado, here is Dilbert’s One Page Personal Finance List: Make a will. Pay off your credit card balance. Get term life […]

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7 Nov 2014

Matt Cutts 4 min read

Before 2011, I had never run farther than eight miles. Then I found a program called USA FIT which helps runners across the country train up and run a marathon. My goal was to run one marathon and then stop, but I found some friendly folks and so I just kept running. It’s been wonderful. […]

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28 Dec 2013

Matt Cutts 2 min read

Today I made a Bluetooth garage door opener. Now I can open my garage from my Android phone. There’s a short how-to YouTube video from Lou Prado. Lou also made a website btmate.com that has more information, and you can watch an earlier howto video as well. The project itself was pretty simple: – Acquire […]

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13 May 2013

Matt Cutts 4 min read

For a while, I was really into reverse-engineering USB drivers. Don’t ask why. The heart wants what the heart wants. I didn’t finish this “hairball” post, but it has some info in it that still might be good. I recently stumbled across this post and it inspired me. I decided to try to reverse engineer […]

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