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2 November, 2012How It Is

SEO: Impossible

Links are worthless. Backlinks will hurt you. This post will self destruct.

23 October, 2012How It Is

Failure Is Always An Option

Embrace your failures, for from them come innovations.

11 October, 2012How It Is, How It Works

Cloudy With a Chance of Upgrades

Don’t let your eyes be bigger than your server. Know when you need cloud and when you don’t.

28 September, 2012How It Works

Encrypted Search Terms

I haven’t seen a lot of people kvetching about this, which surprises me. If you like to look at JetPack’s stats and […]

15 September, 20125 August, 2015How It Is

Subdomains, WordPress and nginx

This should be obvious, but I’m not familiar with nginx, so it wasn’t. I added trunk.elftest.net as a separate subdomain (rather than […]

12 September, 20125 August, 2015How It Is

The Self-Perpetuating Myths

G.R.O.S.S. didn’t work for Calvin, and it won’t work for us either. Are we discriminatory because we’re actually racists, or do we only look that way from the outside?