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Oh, that's what I meant by "deauthorized the app". I removed it on the Google side, and shortly after even got an email from Unroll.me saying that it no longer had access. So I was…

I was a little creeped out when--long after I deauthorized the app and enabled 2FA on my Gmail account--I got an email from them saying "We've found 141 new subscriptions". I wonde…

I voted for Maciej because I admire what he's doing and I'd like to think that I "get" him (though I don't know him personally). I cut my teeth in this industry working at a startu…

I haven't used Laravel, but PHP tends to be relatively easy to get a development environment running as well as deploying on shared host type environments. On the flip side, the ap…

I didn't take the end as "just a collection of destinations", but rather a selection of vignettes illustrating the various reasons one might travel to a particular destination. The…

When I worked at OkCupid Labs, we normally just did daily lunch ad-hoc. However, we set up a little app that would organize a weekly lunch "date" where people would have a one-to-o…

To get optimum performance with PostgreSQL full text search you need to create a column to store the tsvector values with an index on it. Then you need to fill this column with the…

Yes. I find it a pretty practical format; for what I read it's cheap, light, and reliable. Not to mention that there's a lot of quality content available only in paper books.

Have they fixed testing with Swift yet? I am normally a pretty test driven person, but honestly, Apple makes it pretty annoying to use tests with Swift, so I don't blame you for yo…

When are we going to hear the news? > In a move to bolster its new 'Anonymous' strategy, Facebook has acquired 4chan for $30 billion in an all-cash deal > "It's been an incredible …

Some things to consider: * If you're a freshman you're likely going to change your major a few times. I don't know about UPenn, but unless things have changed EECS (and a few other…

You can request all subsets to include a font's ligatures with Google fonts. See: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Sub... So if you add a `&subset=all` to t…

I'd be curious as to where Reel (both on and off Rack) lands in there as well.

Over the past few years, I worked on a few versions of this as a side project. The last iteration didn't do the backup itself--it connected with your Dropbox, sync'd the raw images…

One of the things I love about Sinatra is that pretty much everything you need to know is in the README. Otherwise, understanding how Rack/your web server/your gems work is useful.…

The tone and nature of this oddly reminds me of a point in the video game Earthbound , where part way through the game you take a coffee break with one of the NPCs. It serves no pu…

Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk is a good compromise in this regard. I've been using it to develop some JRuby/Sinatra backend services, and though it's not quite as simple as Heroku, it…

Like many others, having dealt with both issues of 1) building one of these single-page frameworks on the client side, and 2) the prospect dealing with two application, I've always…

I can empathize. I've always found date-related bugs to be the hardest to track down and messiest to resolve. Especially in applications consuming data from a huge variety of buggy…

Some thoughts on the design, which I'm not terribly excited about: When I read Google News or a newspaper's website, I scan a lot of headlines. Even that level of summary helps kee…