I’m having some strong considerations regarding converting one of my two sites to a static file website running on Ghost hosted at Digital Ocean. I’ve always been intrigued about performance and removing the fat that comes with WordPress. Don’t get me wrong. I love WordPress for all that it is, but I’m thinking that for […]
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Testing the New WordPress Mac App
So, I’m using the new desktop app to post to my blog… I think I might like this. Might get me writing a bit more frequently.
Brave Browser So Far and WordPress Innovations
I was just about to write a quick little blog post about how I think the Brave browser is nice and fast, but then I tired to get into Google Sheets to look something up and it didn’t work in Brave. Neither did logging into my WordPress (self-hosted) site. I had to switch to Safari […]
Speaking on Synthetic Mobile Performance Testing and Monitoring
I gave a presentation on Synthetic Mobile Performance Testing and Monitoring last night as part of Mobile Monday Detroit at OU Inc. I talked about: Mobile Web Monitoring Challenges Website Performance: What is it? Mobile Testing 3rd party calls Summary I discussed some key benchmarks to look for in mobile performance testing: End to end […]
Been a while…
Thanks to Alex, been working on some new projects. Working with Heroku (had always been curious about their services) to install a node.js application called Telescope for some exciting things I can’t disclose yet. Also planning to work with another node.js application, but not Telescope, in the coming days. Doing my first speaking engagement on […]
GM Heritage Collection
So maybe it’s re-post Ars Technica article day for me, but I found it interesting to see this as a featured article. I’ve been to the Heritage Collection for a holiday party and found the place to be very well curated and manicured. If you like GM history, then this is definitely a must see […]
Amiga 500
Of all the computers I’ve owned in my life, none were more exhilarating and exciting as the Commodore Amiga 500. Sure, the short time with the Vic-20 and then the long tenure with the Commodore 64 were very forming of my being, but the sheer innovation and wow-factor of the Amiga were legendary! Ars Technica has […]
Happy Pi Day! Once in a lifetime – our lifetime
So, once in a lifetime we get Pi day to 10 digits. March 14, 2015 at 09:26:53 seconds. Pretty fun number stuff if you ask me. What else is cool is that Albert Einstein’s birth date is March 14. So take today to enjoy 3.141592653 and heck, grab yourself a piece of pie!
Getting SpeedFan to start in Windows 7/8.x
I have been a big fan of Almico’s SpeedFan for probably as many years as it’s been out. I used to be in love with the app because I overclocked the heck out of my computers and wanted to keep track of various temperatures: CPU, GPU, Chipset, Case, and others. I also wanted to keep […]
Speed up your Android’s Chrome Browser
I’m not normally looking to make changes like this… who am I kidding? Of course I am. I’m a speed freak. I love pushing my technology to the limit. Thanks to reddit user erythrocytes64, you can make a simple change to a Chrome flag. Go into Chrome and surf to chrome://flags/#max-tiles-for-interest-area. Set that to 512 instead of […]