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WebP2P - New Peer to Peer Technology on the Web
By Rich Jones, May 15, 2012.
This isn't the best illustration. They'll be a proper logo soon.
There is a new mailing list ...
Social Chaos is a A Hill-Climbing Algorithm
By Rich Jones, May 11, 2012.
"Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, ...
How One Form Field Killed 60% of Our Sales
By Rich Jones, May 9, 2012.
A Thirty-Minute Blog Post!
A few weeks ago we got an email from somebody who wanted to post a job on Gun.io, but it ...
Open Source Business: How to Support A Family of 5 By Running An Open Source Project
By Rich Jones, May 4, 2012.
tl;dr: While seeking open source audio software, I found a project which asks for a small donation before you can download the application binaries. I ...
Arguments by Analogy are Fallacies
By Rich Jones, May 2, 2012.
Arguments by analogy are fallacies. Almost any analogy between any two things contains some grain of truth, but one cannot tell what ...
How the GitHub Network Graph is Broken
A Proposal Generator/Template for Freelancers
By Rich Jones, Apr 25, 2012.
This is what it looks like on the inside. See an example or try it ...
How (Not) to Botch A Product Launch
By Rich Jones, Apr 19, 2012.
Earlier this week we launched our new product, JobMappr.com. Of course, you didn't hear about it because we completely flubbed the launch. Somebody submitted ...
Introducing JobMappr! (It's like PadMapper for Jobs!)
How to GitHub: Fork, Branch, Track, Squash and Pull Request
By Rich Jones, Mar 27, 2012.
This guide will teach you how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub. It assumes that you already know about how to use ...
How To Hire Android Developers
By Rich Jones, Mar 14, 2012.
Hey there, green buddy!
So, you've got an idea for a new mobile ...
A Placeholder Template Tag for Django
By Rich Jones, Mar 12, 2012.
Extremely quick blog post!
Here's how to make a crude template tag which lets you add the HTML5 'placeholder' attribute to your form field inputs ...
Secure Your Domain - Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
By Rich Jones, Mar 7, 2012.
Across the globe, governments have adopted policies of seizing domain names as a way to shut down content they find objectionable. This has become a ...
Status Report: Jobs, Bugfixing, Guidelines, More OAuth Providers
By Rich Jones, Feb 24, 2012.
Howdy, folks!
This is just a quick status report about what's going on with Gun.io.
Still roamin' the prairie..
On the ...
How to Hire DevOps
By Rich Jones, Feb 23, 2012.
DevOps is the latest big trend in hiring. Everybody is talking about DevOps, and everybody wants them.
So, what the hell are DevOps, why do ...
GrooveMac: GrooveDown Packaged For OSX (aka, How To Package Java Programs for OSX)
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
tl;dr: Download GrooveMac for OSX here!
Download it here!
I recently discovered an awesome, awesome ...
6 Tips For Hiring a NodeJS Developer
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
So, you're looking to hire a Node.js developer or hire a Node.js freelancer. What should you be looking for? What makes a good ...
Gun.io Profiled in Tech.li
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
Check it out! Gun.io has been profiled by Tech.li. Thanks to Jon Christian for reaching out to do this profile!
Into the Grinder
...Lucid Dream Twitter Bot
By Rich Jones, Feb 18, 2012.
tl;dr: I made a twitter bot to remind you to question reality in an effort to promote lucid dreaming skills.
Howdy folks! It's ...
The End Is Nigh - GChat Spam
By Rich Jones, Feb 18, 2012.
I've always known this day would come.
Disappointing.
There are now spam bots for porn sites running ...
Why Isn't Amazon Dominating Online Payments?
By Rich Jones, Feb 16, 2012.
Many people don't even know this, but Amazon.com, the 10th most popular website, also serve as a payment gateway that allows web developers to accept ...
Setting up Google Webmaster Tools with Python / Django
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
This a short guide on how to set up Google Webmaster tools for your python django website.
Getting Started
How to List Items In A Dictionary in A Django Template
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
Here's a quick to tutorial on how to iterate over a dictionary in a Django template. I get asked this quite a lot so I ...
How to Hire a Programmer
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
This short guide will explain some of the best strategies for hiring a quality freelance programmer, and show you some common pitfalls to avoid.
Intro
...Get Freelance Jobs Based on Your GitHub Profile
By Rich Jones, Feb 7, 2012.
The theme music for this post is: Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up.
Good news, everybody! Gun.io now has tighter integration ...
Do These Documents Show That The CIA Was Involved in the Assassination of an Iranian Nuclear Scientist?
By Rich Jones, Feb 2, 2012.
aka, 'A Peek Inside the Insane Philosophy of the Central Intelligence Agency.'
The theme music to this post is: Zach De La Rocha, ...
Big Changes Come to Gun.io: Non-Competitive Gigs, International Payments, Notifications
By Rich Jones, Jan 26, 2012.
The theme music for this post is: Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue [Live].
Greetings, friends!
We're pleased to announce some big ...
Political JavaScript: progress.js
By Rich Jones, Jan 24, 2012.
The theme music to this post is Omodaka - Hietsuki Bushi.
As you surely noticed, there was a coordinated black-out ...
DirtyShare - Pure JavaScript Peer to Peer Filesharing
By Rich Jones, Jan 16, 2012.
I've made a purely browser-based file sharing system. Try it out with the link above or watch the ...
Tutorial: How to Deploy Node JS Applications, With Examples
By Rich Jones, Jan 11, 2012.
Note: This is a living document! To get the most recent information (and the example files), look here, on GitHub. To clone the ...
I Got Ol' Dirty Bastard's FBI File
By Rich Jones, Jan 8, 2012.
The theme music to this post is Blackroc - Coochie [feat ODB].
One of my hobbies is liberating government documents using Freedom of ...
Post to Google Tasks Using Siri on Your iPhone
By Rich Jones, Dec 29, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Percy Sledge - The Dark End of the Street.
Cool! Gun.io user MatthewBauer has ...
MarkdownView for Android
By Rich Jones, Dec 29, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Minor Threat - Seeing Red.
Cool! Gun.io user Falnatsheh has claimed the bounty ...
Notch's New Game - Minicraft (And An Android Port!)
By Rich Jones, Dec 20, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Anamanaguchi - Power Supply.
tl;dr: Fun new game. Play it online. Help port ...
Gun.io Featured in Hacker Monthly
By Rich Jones, Dec 16, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks. (Watch out! It's a mindworm.)
Awesome news! My article, ...
Gun.io Debuts Group Funding for Open Source Projects
By Rich Jones, Dec 13, 2011.
Berkeley, CA - After months of development, we're proud to announce that Gun.io now has the ability for groups to pool their money together to ...
Client-Side JavaScript Audio Waveform Visualizer
By Rich Jones, Dec 6, 2011.
The theme music for this post is, of course, George Benson - Breezin'. (But it only works in Chrome for now).
...
The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
By Rich Jones, Nov 21, 2011.
The theme music to this post is: Public Enemy - Bring the Noise.
This is a tale of massive waste in a tiny ...
Big Money to Work on Etherpad-Lite
By Rich Jones, Nov 20, 2011.
The theme music to this post is: Virtual Boy - Mass.
Good news, everybody!
The Etherpad Foundation has put up two ...
Road Hacking - Part Zero
By Rich Jones, Nov 6, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Tom Waits - Going Out West.
Short post - I'm packing up shop and moving to ...
How Not To Do Mass Mailing
By Rich Jones, Nov 2, 2011.
I'm so, so sorry. I triple checked the code and tested it three times, but I still accidentally spammed some of our users today. I ...
How Much to Charge as A Freelance Computer Programmer
By Rich Jones, Oct 26, 2011.
The theme music of this post is: Clipse - We Got it For Cheap (NSFW).
This post is intended for young, competent programmers ...
Python for the Web
By Rich Jones, Oct 18, 2011.
The theme music for this blog post is: Air - Playground Love.
Python is the best language in the world for interacting with ...
Apologies for Our Overly Eager Email Robot
By Rich Jones, Oct 18, 2011.
The theme song for this blog post is Justice - DVNO.
Sorry! It appears our email robot was a little over-zealous with that last ...
Email Notifications come to Gun.io
By Rich Jones, Oct 5, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Aesop Rock - Attention Span.
Woo! Gun.io finally has email notifications for messaging between users. This ...
How We Used Karmurl to Improve Our Frontpage (And Some Theoretical Feedback Systems)
By Rich Jones, Sep 28, 2011.
The theme song for this post is: Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars.
First Gunio Claim Awarded!
By Rich Jones, Sep 26, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Gil Scott Heron - Inner City Blues.
Good news! The first Gun.io claim has been awarded! It ...
What I Learned From Watching Notch Code
By Rich Jones, Sep 13, 2011.
The theme music for this post is The White Stripes - A Ball and A Biscuit.
Warning: This post may smack of fanboyism. ...
How to Install Multiple Django Sites on the Same Server
By Rich Jones, Sep 5, 2011.
The theme music to this blog post is Against Me! - Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners.
This is going to be a short ...
LightWrite - A Free, Online WriteRoom Clone
By Rich Jones, Sep 5, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Aesop Rock - Daylight.
TL;DR: - Try LightWrite here!
I've been doing more blogging ...
Code is Wealth - Share It And We All Get Richer
By Rich Jones, Aug 30, 2011.
You're incredibly wealthy, but you don't even know it yet. Bear with me for a moment.
In classical economics, capital is defined as 'already-produced durable ...
Gunio Is Live!
By Rich Jones, Aug 30, 2011.
The theme song for this post is Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang.
3 months of hacking, 12000 lines of code and 120 cups ...
Failure of Leadership in the GitHub Model of Collaborative Software Development
By Rich Jones, Aug 12, 2011.
GitHub has been massively transformative for people who write computer software. More people than ever are using version control and I would attribute a lot ...