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20 January, 201220 January, 2012How It Is

Large Files Don’t Move Well

Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.

Half essay, half nerdy. Why large files don’t move well, some alternatives and options, and why this killed MegaUpload.

12 January, 201214 January, 2012How To

SOPA Blackout

Stop SOPA and use your .maintenance file to do it!

9 January, 201210 January, 2012How To

Yourls

Yourls? Myurls! It’s easy, it’s painless and it works.

30 November, 201130 November, 2011How It Is

Said It Once Before But It Bears Repeating

It’s not a problem with thinking, but a problem with understanding and lack of knowledge that causes repetition. If you don’t know exactly what you want, it’s hard as hell to ask for it.

26 October, 20115 August, 2015How It Works

Community Driven Design

While we all design open source, there’s a point at getting in on the changes and it’s not beta testing. Testing begins earlier, and your responsibility depends on who you support.

18 October, 201118 October, 2011How To

Request: Multiple Domains, One IP SSL Certificates

This is actually a request. The server that runs Ipstenu.org hosts three other domains. I set up my self signed certificate just […]