I recently purchased a Logitech F710 gamepad controller to use with my Windows 10 gaming PC/server in our living room, and thought it might be nice to take on the road
Author: cristoslc
Join us at the Hack for Western Massachusetts! (June 6th & 7th, 2015)
TL;DR If you’re a programmer, a designer, a blogger, or just a resident of Western Massachusetts, you should come to the Hack for Western Mass on June 6th & 7th
5 Great Lessons from the Hack for Western Mass
This past Saturday & Sunday, I participated in the Hack for Western Massachusetts — the first Hackathon I’ve ever done. It was a fantastic experience, and one I can’t wait to
Heartbleed Bug
A few people I know recently asked me about the “heartbleed” bug, and how it impacts them. Here’s an overview for non-technical folks. What is Heartbleed? It must be terrifying,
Favicons, or how to give an OCD graphic designer something to do
As part of republishing my personal page, I did some research into how to create an appropriate favicon. Clearly the browser standards on this topic are not well agreed-upon, based
Starting from Scratch on DigitalOcean
Recently, I became utterly fed up with Dreamhost’s terrible shared hosting response times ( >2 seconds to first byte) and made the leap to a private VPS at DigitalOcean. Although
Server config for YOURLS on nginx
I recently converted my DigitalOcean droplets to nginx instead of apache as their webserver, mainly because apache uses tons of RAM and my database was running out of overhead. Unfortunately,
Backing up sites on Dreamhost
I recently FUBAR’d a Concrete5 site during an upgrade process, and realized that the last time I nuke’n’paved my home computer, I also wiped all of my backups, and the
Create alias in OS X for remote folders
From http://www.reckless.net.nz/2008/06/os-x-tip-alias-for-network-folder.html Essentially: 1. create any old alias 2. Get Info on the alias 3. Choose “select new original”
I Miss the old Mac Color Picker
I discovered today that the Digital Color Meter in Mountain Lion (10.8) is a pale shadow of the color picker in the Mac OS that I’m used to. Instead of
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