CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-17 23:33:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fireside chat with the Google Chrome team. #io13

2013-05-17 21:20:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Obligatory picture of me wearing Google Glass.

2013-05-17 04:38:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Wow, the new Google+ website is really great. (Ironically, while at a tech conference, I spend the least time interacting with personal technology.)

Finally getting to spend some quality time with this new Chromebook Pixel. It's a good time to be a computer nerd.

2013-05-17 00:30:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Fireside chat with the Android team. #io13

2013-05-16 19:03:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Interesting to see so few developers turn out for the software internationalization session. Maybe not exciting, but so important. #io13

2013-05-16 16:33:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

PCWorld reviewed MarkdownPad!

"MarkdownPad makes composing Markdown even easier than usual".

2013-05-15 23:56:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I've seen DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself, a software development principle) mentioned in nearly every #io13 session. I love it.

2013-05-15 16:57:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Android IDE powered by IntelliJ, built in UI editor and i18n tools.

2013-05-15 15:51:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-15 14:44:42 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

And so it begins! #io13

2013-04-26 03:39:23 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

MarkdownPad 2.1.14 is now out!

Its installer no longer requires admin privileges, custom user files are now stored in the Roaming profile folder (so custom CSS files and spell check dictionaries will follow your user account on a domain), several Markdown syntax highlighting fixes, and more.

2013-04-24 00:16:33 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm super excited about BitTorrent Sync. Of course, I just migrated all of my data from Dropbox to AeroFS, but hey, why not migrate again!

I'm really glad to see BitTorrent technology being used for something a little more legitimate. It's such a powerful concept and has much more to offer than just piracy.

2013-04-22 16:27:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hey, I wrote something useful.

2013-04-19 02:36:22 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

MarkdownPad 2.1.13 is now available, and includes major improvements to the rendering system as well as new features and fixes.

2013-04-10 03:07:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

MarkdownPad v2.1.11 is now out with support for new languages Italian and Korean, plus many improvements and fixes.

2013-03-24 17:11:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

MarkdownPad v2.1.10 is now out! Adds Finnish (fi-FI) translation and many improvements.

2013-03-24 00:57:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Don't have PayPal, or don't like PayPal? You can now upgrade to MarkdownPad Pro with Amazon Payments!

2013-03-20 21:52:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

MarkdownPad is now available in German, Polish, and Russian! (And has a ton of improvements and fixes).

2013-03-08 14:12:43 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Muse was fantastic.

2013-03-07 18:30:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Introducing MarkdownPad 2, a completely new version of MarkdownPad. It has all the features you love from the original version, and includes dozens of exciting new features and improvements.

2013-02-25 18:20:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Le Montagne.

(Grand Targhee, Wyoming)

2013-02-03 07:20:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

As a kid from rural North Dakota, going to a Soundgarden concert wasn't really possible. As an adult, the band wasn't performing anymore.

And here we are.

2013-01-29 06:55:12 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I received a wonderful thank-you gift from a software developer at CERN. Things like this make developing +MarkdownPad even better.

2013-01-20 00:21:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Skiing in Minnesota: thankful for man-made snow!

2013-01-16 04:09:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I've been trying to code a new feature every night. Momentum, inertia, whatever - it's going well :)

2013-01-12 18:11:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

RIP Aaron Schwartz, who, among other things, co-created the Markdown language. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

2013-01-12 07:17:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Zero Dark Thirty was very good. Kinda surreal to watch after reading No Easy Day.

2012-12-31 22:39:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm told that +Techerator had 1.1 million views in 2012, which is 20x more than the number of tourists that visit Liechtenstein each year.

Other fun stuff:

- We published 164 new articles
- Visitors hailed from 219 different countries
- Top visiting countries (in order): United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Australia, Germany, Netherlands

Thanks to all our contributors for their great articles this year!

2012-12-30 05:58:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It was fun seeing a new Tarantino movie, but Django Unchained wasn’t one of my favorites. Christoph Waltz was stellar though.

2012-12-24 02:56:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I've taken the quintessential Instagram photo.

2012-12-19 01:49:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

And there was art!

2012-12-16 19:52:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

After something like 4 months of reading, I finally finished Infinite Jest last night/this morning. (After technically finishing the book last night, I realized that I had to re-read the first chapter which was chronologically the last chapter. So I did that this morning.)

Writing anything less than 1,000 pages of analysis would probably be a disservice to this book, because, aside from Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, this is the most complex book I've ever read. (And since GEB was non-fiction, IJ definitely takes the cake for complex fiction.)

It's hard to say what this book is specifically about, since major topics include: competitive tennis, international future-state politics, family dysfunctions, artistic film-making, optical science, Québécois separatism, grammar... but most of all, this book is about addiction. Almost every character in this book is addicted toso... more »

2012-12-16 04:55:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm really loving Snapseed for editing photos Android. These were taken around Sonoma county, California, and will soon decorate our apartment.

2012-12-12 04:40:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This has become a frequent occurrence while reading Infinite Jest.

2012-12-01 01:12:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I find myself really liking - maybe even loving - Infinite Jest now that I'm 2/3 finished. Is this what Stockholm Syndrome feels like?

2012-11-28 03:42:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

To quote my good friend and former roommate Will Smith: old and busted; new hotness.

2012-11-28 00:22:58 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Something really great is in this box...

2012-11-27 18:08:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yei - another great launch from my (now former) Gmail team. Way to go guys!!!

2012-11-27 18:04:15 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

The importance of PHP cache tuning!

My PHP cache (APC) was thrashing so hard my CPU usage was off the charts. Glad I got that figured out.

The biggest performance improvement was seen from increasing APC's memory limit from 30MB to 64MB (probably more than I need, but will tweak more after I monitor performance) and increasing cache TTL from 0 to 7200 seconds.

2012-11-26 17:00:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Awesome, one of my +Techerator articles hit the front page of Reddit a few days ago.

How to download a full backup copy of Wikipedia: http://www.techerator.com/2012/01/wikipedia-goes-dark-on-january-18-heres-how-to-survive/

2012-11-12 06:18:38 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

6x6 pattern lock in CyanogenMod 10. Heh.

2012-11-02 03:48:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

As moving day nears /
Our lives rapidly transform /
Into stacked cardboard

#haiku

2012-10-30 15:04:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks to my Kindle's fancy new "how long will it take me to finish this book" feature, I found out that it will take me another 28 hours of straight reading to finish Infinite Jest, which I've been reading since early August.

I'm starting to think I was better off not knowing...

2012-10-27 18:49:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I saw Cloud Atlas last night and loved it.

The directors didn't tell the story in the same format the book used, which wasn't surprising, but I was really impressed with how they put the complex story together and I think I actually preferred the movie's story over the book's story. Seeing the actors play so many different characters was great.

It might be a little daunting to watch a movie like this if you haven't read the book, but overall they took a beautiful, poignant and complex story and made it extremely presentable.

I'd definitely go see it again.

2012-10-23 23:47:20 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

With the arrival of my Kindle Paperwhite, we're now a two kindle family!

2012-10-19 14:56:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Regina Spektor was great last night.

2012-10-17 23:59:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Yep, all of these quick responses in the new Google Calendar for Android were specifically designed for me.

You can get the new app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar (Android 4.0.3+)

2012-10-14 05:49:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Saw Argo tonight - fantastic movie. After seeing this movie and The Town, I'm willing to watch anything Ben Affleck directs.

2012-10-10 18:10:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Microsoft SQL Server experts! Lend us your ears!

2012-10-07 21:19:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

I finished reading Cloud Atlas today, and wow - it was amazing. (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375507256/?tag=techerator-20)

I learned about this book very recently, after seeing a trailer for the Cloud Atlas movie which comes out this month. The movie caught my eye because it was coming from the Wachowskis (of The Matrix fame), and the trailer looked beautiful and crazy.

Knowing I didn't have long until the movie was released and, for better or worse, it wouldn't be the same reading the book after seeing the movie, I hit this book one with higher-than-average enthusiasm and finished it in about one week.

The story is truly amazing. In short: it tells six stories about completely different people, in different times and different places. Seemingly unrelated, each story gets about halfway finished before it is abruptly interrupted by the next story... more »