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Request: Alex King Rememberances

Dear WordPress community, My apologies for the selfish and personal nature of this post. I hope you will forgive me given the circumstances. As most of you know, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2013. One of the things my wife and I are trying to do is put together some information

Cycle 1 of New Trial

Hi Everyone, I m nearly through my first cycle of the new clinical trial and overall I think it s gone pretty well. I was able to get the 6 pills/day (3 in the morning, 3 in the evening) without too much concern. That said, by the end of the 5 days taking the pills I would

Anker PowerPort 5 USB Charging Station

I enjoy reading posts about the tools people use. Casey recently posted about some of his travel toolkit, including a 5 USB port charger. I can definitely see this being valuable for travel, but my current use case is my bedside table. The charger happily accommodates my iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch charging cables, plus

Personal WordPress Theme

I ve forked the FavePersonal theme to release a few changes that I ve made to it for my own site. An improved Gallery feature, including support for WordPress shortcode galleries. If you re uploading photos directly to your gallery post, you can use drag and drop to set the order for them now. The Post Formats admin

That liberating feeling when you let a domain expi…

That liberating feeling when you let a domain expire for that project you never quite got around to.

Lo, Rowhammer!

This is nuts. Do not want. #

11 Years Old

Still going strong, especially if there is a ball in front of her to chase.

Safari vs. Chrome: Power Consumption

I m increasingly using Chrome because Safari can t get the job done. I don t know whose fault it is that these sites don t work with Safari, but to me as a user it doesn t really matter. Improving power efficiency is great, but it would probably save even more battery life if Safari were compatible enough that #

An Eventful Friday Night + New Trial

Hi Everyone, On Friday afternoon I had my initial interview for the TAS-102 trial. As is standard with these appointments, we reviewed my history, the treatment schedule, side effects (they sound relatively mild), and I signed the consent form to volunteer for the study. From there I needed to get blood work and a CT

Meet the New Monk: Fintan Ryan

Beyond the technical skills, however, Fintan seems to have a knack for asking interesting questions, a trait that can be harder to find than the ability to answer them. I m not at all surprised at how RedMonk went about their latest round of hiring. Sounds like they have landed a great fit. Congrats all around. #

FastMail Enables IMAP Push for iOS

What a nice surprise. FastMail1 is one of the internet services I ve used the longest; surviving several ownership changes. That s not easy great job pulling it off and continuing to offer stellar service. That s a referral link. #

BBEdit Leaving the Mac App Store

If you re running a Mac software distribution and both Panic and Bare Bones sign up then decide to leave due to the limitations something isn t working right. #

Open Space and Foothills in Colorado

I ve been meaning to stop the car and take this photo for years; finally did it. I might try it again with more focus on the broken down stone structure on the left side.

Open Space Fence

I liked the fence here ended up being right next to where we parked by the side of the road.

You are not your company

The idea of an entrepreneur is to ideally build a company that is bigger than the founder. In the early days you are critical, but over time your job is to build systems and hire people (or teams of people) to fill in these critical roles. In many ways the true measure of success is #