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2025 1

  1. Supply Chain Attacks

2020 1

  1. Farewell Google Ads

2019 3

  1. Coder as Translator, or the glory that was Perl
  2. Building an OK, Sorta Secure Computer
  3. Basic Security is Not Secure

2018 2

  1. A Brief History of Instagram Growth Hacking
  2. Privacy Policy

2017 1

  1. Where’d the year go?

2016 1

  1. What happened in the last 12 months?

2015 5

  1. What is Geonymity?
  2. Switching to Emacs from Vim
  3. Day 34: I didn’t do my laundry for a month
  4. Day 13: Minimalist Winter Gear
  5. Handwashing Clothes for a month: Day 3

2014 5

  1. The Post Friendship Era or Friendship is Dead
  2. Instagram Flexes Its Marketing Muscle with CommunityFirst
  3. How to Get More Instagram Followers Free Honestly
  4. High Quality Engagement from Instagram Photo Walks
  5. RIBS for Bitcoin

2013 3

  1. Litecoin Mining: Building a Rig
  2. A Social Media Guide to Growing Engagement on Instagram the Hard Way
  3. New Music

2012 20

  1. 3 Alternatives to Showing Photos on Twitter after the Instagram Yank
  2. How To Back Up WordPress with mysqldump
  3. The 10 Commandments for Remote Team Management
  4. End of the Bubble or Just a Correction?
  5. Instagram Introduces Lower Rate Limits
  6. What Would Really Get Me To Join Your Startup
  7. What the Next Rails Will Look Like
  8. The Worst Excuse For Not Iterating Quickly: It will break production
  9. A week without coffee and Facebook
  10. Check Out My New Video Project: GeekySF.com
  11. In Twitter No One Can Hear You Scream
  12. 3 Signs That Your Job Is Going To Be Outsourced
  13. Building PHP with nginx, and fast-cgi on EC2
  14. Rails on Nginx with Passenger on Mac OS X Lion
  15. What it’s like to sign up for Twitter in 2012?
  16. Should You Follow Your Frenemies?
  17. My Favorite Sound Bytes from the Y Combinator Application How-To
  18. Definitely Worth Reposting About the Facebook IPO – Infographic
  19. Oracle Breaks MySql.com’s Search
  20. Startup Investment in the San Francisco’s 94105 Zip code

2011 24

  1. The Most Popular Cat on Instagram Faces Castration
  2. Upgrade Your Rails Facebook App to SSL
  3. Low Status and High Status Technologists
  4. 25 super engaged followers thanks to BestCoworking
  5. Setting Up Cucumber and RSpec on Padrino
  6. How To Test Image Uploads With MiniTest On Padrino
  7. In LA Coders Are Scared To Take Risks
  8. Traffic Has Been Phenomenal! Thank you!
  9. What’s It Like To Be Fired?
  10. How I Use The Node.js Circle On Google Plus
  11. Coders Who Don’t Job Interview: Zed Shaw
  12. Django Follows the Law of Least Googling
  13. I Did What I Loved and Nearly Destroyed Myself
  14. Recruiting is Broken: The $2400 Face to Face Interview
  15. What’s it like to be recruited?
  16. How Do You Explain WordPress? Use Ruby Metaphors!
  17. 5 Ways to Reduce Twitter Spam
  18. EmpireAvenue.com is Addictive
  19. Fake User Wins Instagram Contest
  20. Quora’s Troll Proof Trade Off
  21. I lost 7 pounds in 2 weeks with the 4 Hour Body Slow Carb Diet
  22. 4 Tech Tools for Marathon Training
  23. Jim Barcelona, Ruby Rockstar
  24. Upgrading To Rails 3

2010 45

  1. 4 Cool Things That Happened at Super Happy Dev House LA
  2. Where Is Barce?
  3. Why is Foursquare Down? 3 Educated Guesses
  4. Dumping Monaco for 9×15 Font
  5. 3 Things The Social Network Taught Me About Startups
  6. Microsoft moves Blogs to WordPress
  7. Lots of Phones to Test At AppDevAndMarketing.com
  8. Error 502 and Youtube is Down
  9. Want to be Successful Like Joel on Software?
  10. What You Missed At WordCamp LA
  11. iPhone 4 beats iPhone 3G in 3 ways
  12. 4 Things I learned from blogging 11 days straight
  13. What I Like About iOS4 for the iPhone 3G
  14. What I Hate About Apple: iOS4 slowed down my iPhone 3G
  15. Dineovore Gives Techies an API
  16. Have You Used Facebook Places?
  17. Working on the Road
  18. What is a social media friend?
  19. Commands I Use Frequently
  20. Apollo Coffee is Great for Coding
  21. The Best Answer To What Do You Do
  22. 3 Creative Ways to Recruit Developers
  23. 5 Reasons to Go to WordCamp LA
  24. Testing Out The WordPress iPhone App
  25. How to Triple Your Site Traffic with the 3 Keys of an SEO Blog Post
  26. 4 Tools For Blogging on the Go
  27. The 3 Keys to a Blog Post with SEO
  28. Blogging Every Day For Six Months Starts Now
  29. Internet Speeds in Santa Monica and Westwood Suck
  30. 4 Ways to Avoid Foursquare Fatigue
  31. How To Pitch At Capitalize
  32. How to Get a Good Tech Job
  33. Installing Snowflake
  34. Twitter: Thoughts That Are Hard to Fit Into 140 Characters
  35. URL Shorteners: tinyurl.com bit.ly and seductive.me
  36. Frequent Insights; Less Focus
  37. Streamys Tech Fail
  38. Ride a bicycle and save the planet!
  39. How To Boost iPhone App Ratings
  40. WPTouch Makes WordPress iPhone Friendly
  41. How Secure Are iPhone Apps?
  42. Tweets You’ll Most Likely Read at SxSW 2010
  43. Install Script For Rails on Debian
  44. Tweets I Liked
  45. Survival Books for 2010

2009 44

  1. Market Prediction means AI
  2. Where are the people that hack together in meatspace?
  3. WP Geo Plugin
  4. EC2 Backup Script
  5. Notes on adding more MySQL databases
  6. Part II: Getting to 600 Concurrent Users
  7. Scaling from 100 to 100000 concurrent users in a day?
  8. App Identifier and Bundle Identifier Gotcha in iPhone Dev
  9. Social Media Backup – What are the options now?
  10. Benchmarking Inserts on Drizzle and MySQL
  11. If You Miss tr.im use j.mp
  12. Advice for Middle Management
  13. Amazon EC2 in the Enterprise
  14. How to Load Balance and Auto Scale with Amazon’s EC2
  15. Monitoring Websites on the Cheap: Screen and Sitebeagle
  16. Lone Coder in a Sea of Power Users?
  17. Git: How to Cherry Pick Commits and Package them Under a Tag
  18. A Cross Platform Browser, Windows 2003 EC2 AMI
  19. Cylons will be built with Open Source Software
  20. Testing the iPhone WordPress App
  21. No Facebook or Twitter for a Week
  22. Gear6.com Hijacks @memcached on Twitter
  23. A Quicksort in Erlang
  24. My Favorite Coder Interview Question
  25. Google Adwords: A Great Trend Spotter
  26. Doing Sysadmin on the iPhone
  27. Who Barce Follows On Twitter
  28. Scalability Services
  29. Oddments: A Great Blog For Keeping Up With Drizzle and Gearman
  30. The Easiest Way to Deliver Your Web Project on Time
  31. Overcoming File Encoding Issues
  32. The Corporate Game: Coders Use A Deck Lots
  33. This Post posted by ScribeFire
  34. 3 Clients for Storing Data into Amazon S3
  35. Setting Up a newLISP Webserver
  36. The Infamous Zed Shaw Declares ACL Is Dead
  37. Setting Up An EC2 LAMP Server
  38. Amazon’s EC2 and S3 — Computing on the Cheap
  39. Happy MLK Day — Here’s the Youtube MLK “I Have A Dream Speech”
  40. OH HAI! Ads in UR RSS FEEDZ
  41. Helping People Find Jobs
  42. 2008 Favorites
  43. Greener Pastures Part 2: bringing home the green
  44. Greener Pastures Part 1: looking ahead at green technology in 2009

2008 111

  1. Site Diversity FTW
  2. Another Hackday Update: PHP unserialize doesn’t quite do it
  3. Update on the WordPress Dev2Live Hackday
  4. A WordPress Hackday
  5. Looking For a New Web 2.0 Job? Try Shifting Your Perspective.
  6. Installing fcgi on IIS 6.0 with PHP 5.2.8
  7. Apps That Seem to Crash WoW on OS X 10.5.5
  8. What I Whitelist in my Spam Filter
  9. Intego Security Barrier: The lightest protection for OS X
  10. The Funny Video of You Malware linked on Facebook
  11. File Upload Configuration with PHP and IIS
  12. Business and Pleasure: networking the happy hour
  13. Honorius, Lifestream and kPicasa
  14. Dirty Little Secret or a Chat Over Coffee? The Tech Industry on Drugs.
  15. CSS Based Web Design — 5 Years of Saving Lots of Money
  16. Why I Joined the Long Now
  17. Gaia Online: a new kind of Internet socializing
  18. The Best, Agnostic Way To Make Money In Tech
  19. A Comparison of Ajax Libraries
  20. I Voted For Obama and Biden
  21. Codebelay Needs Bloggers
  22. Redboxing with Rails: Modal Windows FTW
  23. Where Are The Tech Jobs Right Now? In Booze and Legal
  24. A Quick Guide to Noobwatcher
  25. Digital Cupid: How to Put Technology to Work For Your Love Life
  26. Remove ^M characters and more with repl.bash
  27. Getting Around the Politics of Subversion with git
  28. The Clean Slate
  29. How the FBI Would Have Tracked Palin’s Hacker If He Were L33ter
  30. Using Tablefy to Make Comparisons: Python Versus PHP
  31. Reflections on the Last Recession: 2002-2005
  32. Darwin Ports when OS X Idiosyncracies Get You Down
  33. Sending Files with hping3
  34. Who Is An Inspiring CEO?
  35. How To Save Money with Memcache
  36. Find Jobs Using RSS Feeds from Job Boards
  37. Jason Calacanis Wants Startups to do 10 Things NOW
  38. What Projects Are In The Works
  39. Beware the Recruiter Bait and Switch: Get References!
  40. 3 Ways to Green Your Office
  41. Saving Time on Subversion Merging: svn merge Manually
  42. Part II of NoobWatcher: Automatically Reporting Server File Changes
  43. How Do You Avoid Presentation Disaster?
  44. Symfony Has a Swift Plugin for Sending Gmail
  45. sfGuardPlugin: The Extra Documentation
  46. The Friday Five for This Weekend the 19th of September
  47. How Will the World’s Financial Crisis Affect Web 2.0?
  48. 16 Years of Telnet Access to The WELL Ends on 9/24
  49. Stack Overflow Answers Your Hardest Tech Questions
  50. Yahoo’s BOSS API Example and Notes on Yahoo’s Hackday
  51. Wow, PHP has a wordwrap function!
  52. Weening Myself Off of Eclipse PDT
  53. Ctags and Code Completion in Vim 7.2
  54. What School or My Parents Never Taught Me
  55. The HTTP Status 122 Error in IE7 in Ajax Apps
  56. SubEthaEdit for Linux?
  57. Gearing Up For HackDay At Yahoo on September 12th
  58. What I Learned at ROFLCon: Numa Numa and Too Many Wannabe PUAs
  59. ROFLCon Poised to Give LOLS
  60. Ubiquity puts the World at your Finger Tips
  61. Google doesn’t like Word Press Pages
  62. Automated Functional Testing with Selenium IDE
  63. The Friday Five for August 22nd, 2008
  64. The Rails Console Makes Test Object Creation and Debugging Easy
  65. Remember the Milk: An Off-line Capable Todo List with SMS Capability
  66. Installing Swift in symfony 1.1 — The missing manual
  67. Mephisto: Blogging Software on Rails
  68. Installing sfGuardPlugin in symfony 1.1 — A Guide for the Perplexed
  69. sfValidatorCompare Is Now sfValidatorSchemaCompare
  70. Does Core Developer Think Symfony 1.1 Alienates PHP Developers?
  71. Symfony 1.1 Validation — Gotchas
  72. Matt Knox Rocks The San Francisco Ruby Meetup
  73. Coder Dudes, For Your Sanity Date Starbucks Barristas!
  74. NBCi4 loves Twitter
  75. Hopes to Catch Up on His RSS Reading
  76. Fun With GDB, Gnu’s Debugger
  77. The No-Tech Invite Birthday Celebration
  78. print_r in PHP-5.2.6 Doesn’t Print the Whole SimpleXML Object
  79. #php on irc.he.net harbors a racist coder
  80. How to Make Your Own PHP Extension… Quick and Dirty
  81. Algorithms in PHP
  82. The Code of Successful Websites
  83. Part II of Hegel, Coding and Managers: Your boss and Hegel think it’s life or death but it’s not
  84. Part I of Hegel, Coding and Managers: The Blindness of Coders
  85. Hegel, Coding and Managers
  86. Update your To Do List from Your Cell and Share Flowcharts with Everyone
  87. Sun Breaks MySQL’s Source Install
  88. What’s Your Favorite Open Source Project?
  89. Keeping It Real On Social Networking
  90. What’s the Oldest Program You Have That You Wrote?
  91. Laptop-less Meetings and No Wifi Cafes
  92. Come to Next Wednesday’s Web Analytics Mixer at the Supperclub
  93. Free WiFi in San Francisco through Meraki
  94. Migrating to the Newest Youtube API
  95. Youtube Censors Won’t Censor Full Length Chic Flicks
  96. Historians Rejoice! Mahalo Will Pay You For Your Favorite Links!
  97. The Web Analytics Association Election Starts March 24th
  98. Warcraft: Why Do People Need What They Greed?
  99. Strawpoll, Twitter as a Coral Reef, and Bruce Lee
  100. A Google Trends for Twitter: Twitterverse
  101. Cool Links from SxSWi 2008
  102. Day 4 Vlog of SxSW 2008
  103. Day 3 Vlog of SxSW 2008
  104. Day 2 Vlog of SxSW 2008
  105. Day 1 Vlog of SxSW 2008
  106. Byte Size Gossip At SxSW
  107. Quick follow up on JS-Kit
  108. Stealing Your Js-kit Ratings for Fun and Profit with Ajax
  109. A Comparison of PHP Frameworks
  110. What Website Best Expresses The Idea that There is Order in Chaos?
  111. Follow up to Full Movies on Youtube

2007 16

  1. Full Movies on Youtube?
  2. What Is Work Productivity?
  3. More People Should be Using Sparklines
  4. XSS in Facebook’s groups?
  5. Facebook Applications
  6. More MySQL 5.1 Benchmarks: My Code is Faster? And Slower? WTF?
  7. Upgrading to MySQL 5.1: I Love Built-in Table Partitioning!
  8. Youtube Lies
  9. Social Software: Are you really interacting with people?
  10. A Real Life Truman Show: Justin.tv
  11. taking pics every hour with isightcapture
  12. I digg leet Mac OS X command line stuff
  13. Dear Lazy Web: How do I Send Emails from Non-Resolvable Servers?
  14. How I Got Into SxSW Parties
  15. What’s missing? CPAN for JavaScript
  16. Learning about Microformats

2006 10

  1. An easier way to parse JSON
  2. Moguls of the New Media
  3. Economies of Scale
  4. Blog Claiming on Technorati
  5. 6 Things You Can Only Do In Ajax
  6. How To Pitch to Venture Capital
  7. Webby Award Nominees Announced
  8. Stage I: Setting up SQL Tables and Ruby on Rails
  9. Welcome to the Codebelay Blog
  10. About The Codebelay Blog