June 4, 2015
by dave
Comments Off on Seriously, get your FAQs from your users
Listening to Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product, she makes the point that your users are not happy stock photos, that your product’s make it or break it moments are often when the user feels helpless. She had a lot … Continue reading
June 23, 2013
by dave
Comments Off on IronWorker is really easy to use
Background: I’m putting together a demo for PagerDuty to show off how easy CORS makes our configuration API, so I threw together a quick script and originally just set it to sleep a minute and loop. IronWorker is probably a … Continue reading
April 27, 2013
by dave
Comments Off on Find duplicate files with a Ruby script
Sometimes my backup regime gets out of hand, so I made a simple script to find likely duplicates across multiple drives. Basically, if gives me a list of files that are the same size and same extension that are larger … Continue reading
March 11, 2013
by dave
Comments Off on Word Frequency Counter (in JavaScript)
I need a quick word frequency counter, you’re welcome to use it, just paste your text in the first text area. Case, punctuation and words that only appear once are ignored. Paste your words up there ^ and click down … Continue reading
September 26, 2012
by dave
Comments Off on Read this later Bookmarklet for Astrid
Edit: This still works for me, but it doesn’t seem to work in all browsers, there’s an official tool now that you probably want to use. I’ve started using Astrid as a to-do list. And since reading things on the … Continue reading
October 27, 2011
by dave
Comments Off on Project: Randomly Failing Server
For a API example I’m working on for PagerDuty, I wanted something that would throw off errors regularly — not every single request but say one every 100 request. FEPServer is a quick and dirty project on App Engine that’ll … Continue reading
September 28, 2011
by dave
Comments Off on Some software shout-outs
F.lux, which changes the tint of your screen to match the time of day is a great tool if for some reason you get woken up a lot at night and have to look at your screen for a couple … Continue reading
