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chrisblackwell

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January 9, 2012 (14y ago)
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Canadian, web developer, comic book fanatic, Python and Laravel enthusiast, and all around über geek.

I do most of my ramblings here and on my blog at https://chrisblackwell.me

  1. Where to see all the total solar eclipses for the rest of this decade (theglobeandmail.com)
    2 points 1
  2. Airtable Pricing Changes (support.airtable.com)
    1 points 0
  3. A Call to Service People to Rise Up (medium.com)
    2 points 0
  4. A Shifty Email Bug (jasonmccreary.me)
    1 points 0
  5. WP Engine Acquires Flywheel (news.crunchbase.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Shania Twain apologizes for saying she would have voted for Trump (theglobeandmail.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Search Ends for MH370 (theglobeandmail.com)
    2 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Are all programming employment contracts this bad?

    Two weeks ago I accepted an offer to go work for a web development shop. I am suppose to start on Monday and I just received my contract that I am suppose to sign. It states that all work I create during my employment…

    3 points 8
  9. Ask HN: Is Dropbox good enough to sync code between computers?

    I'm sure a lot of people have this problem. You code on one computer, then want to pick it up on the next computer. Yes, we could use Git and Github to do pull requests, but there is a lot of stuff I put in my gitignore…

    3 points 8
  10. Introducing the no CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  11. Choosing FireFox for Choice not Fear (chrisblackwell.me)
    3 points 1
  12. Walt Mossberg: Top Products in Two Decades of Tech Reviews (allthingsd.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Why Human Support is So Important (iwantmyname.com)
    1 points 0
  14. Obama: If you are a US citizen the NSA can’t listen to your calls (thenextweb.com)
    113 points 118
  15. Ask HN: Who is the best web host outside the US?

    With everything going down lately with the NSA, I'm sure we are all getting a little anxious about our data sitting on US servers (especially if you are not a US citizen and therefore have no rights). Who would you host…

    3 points 8
  16. ExxonMobil CEO: ‘What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?' (theglobeandmail.com)
    3 points 0
  17. The top 6 worst passwords from the Star Trek universe (blog.agilebits.com)
    4 points 0
  18. Ideal column width for paragraphs online (ux.stackexchange.com)
    1 points 0
  19. Why does this function work? (stackoverflow.com)
    2 points 0
  20. How the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job (io9.com)
    1 points 0
  21. Ask HN: What's the best book to get started with PostgreSQL?

    I have some time off during the next couple of weeks where I would like to venture into PostreSQL. I have tried in the past, but gave up after hitting a few walls. I find PostgreSQL does things a lot differently then…

    12 points 3
  22. Learn Languages, not Frameworks (webadvent.org)
    6 points 5
  23. The Rise and Fall of Web APIs (joelcox.nl)
    2 points 0
  24. Ask HN: Best way to handle user profile data?

    Almost every web application now allows you to setup a basic profile (Even Stack Exchange does). The question is how should you be storing the data in your database? Should you just add more columns to your users…

    3 points 2
  25. Content Creation (daneden.me)
    1 points 0