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Three Chrome Extensions For Twitter

I prefer using the the browser version of Twitter over native applications.

Here are three chrome extensions that make this experience much better:

  1. ParrotFish by Embedly. See a preview of just about any link/image/etc without leaving your stream.
  2. Tweet Filter. As the name suggests, this extension makes it easy to exclude tweets or people matching a pattern.
  3. Buffer for Chrome. I am a big fan of Buffer and this extension makes it easy to access Buffer from with in Twitter (and any other website).

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

January 13, 2012
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ImageOptim

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

June 16, 2011
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Crappy People

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

June 16, 2011
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Javascript Grid Bookmarklets

Ever want to quickly see a grid overlay for 960.gs or Blueprint?

June 10, 2011
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Kudos to Namecheap for a major price drop. I can now finally kick Godaddy completely to the curb. I moved most of my domains to Namecheap a couple of months ago, but at the time their .me domain prices were still to steep for me…but not anymore. The entire Namecheap process is vastly superior to Godaddy. I highly recommend them when you are in the market for your next domain.

Kudos to Namecheap for a major price drop. I can now finally kick Godaddy completely to the curb.

I moved most of my domains to Namecheap a couple of months ago, but at the time their .me domain prices were still to steep for me…but not anymore.

The entire Namecheap process is vastly superior to Godaddy. I highly recommend them when you are in the market for your next domain.

June 06, 2011
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If you're going to work...work hard

June 06, 2011
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Being right doesn't always have to be the goal

June 06, 2011
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Speeding up Rails startup time

If you are using RVM, you should definetly give this a shot. I saw an almost 50% improvement in my start up time on rails.

Looks like some great work.

May 28, 2011
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Installing PostgreSQL 8 via HomeBrew

The PostgreSQL formula for homebrew has already been updated to version 9.

Thankfully, with a little help from google, I found Adam Vandenberg’s 8.4 formula.

brew update
brew install http://github.com/adamv/homebrew/raw/versions/Library/Formula/postgresql8.rb
Tags: github homebrew postgresql
November 22, 2010
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The cult of busy

…people who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt. They are either trying to do too much, or they aren’t doing what they’re doing very well.

September 17, 2010

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