Category Archives: Programming

Mailinator™ Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%

A fun jour­ney through algo­rithms to find a solu­tion to get­ting some awe­some com­pres­sion stats.

February 21, 2012 – 11:54 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Frankie Roberto – Responsive Text

In agree­ment, nifty idea, but defi­antly unsure of the prac­ti­cal application.

February 16, 2012 – 12:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Backups, Automated and Off Site

One of the biggest issues in run­ning a server is mak­ing sure if every­thing dis­ap­pears you can be up and run­ning as quickly as pos­si­ble. So how do I do it?

February 15, 2012 – 6:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Software Code, Technology, Writings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Incubaid Research – Rediscovering the RSync Algorithm

The right way to synch two remote file systems.

February 15, 2012 – 12:05 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security, Software Code | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Tinycon — Favicon Alerts

Pretty sure I could count the num­ber of times I actu­ally looked at a fav­i­con alert on one hand, that being said nice work.

February 6, 2012 – 11:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Michael Tsai – PDFpen and iCloud

My largest long-term fear of OSX is that Apple will slowly turn off the abil­ity for appli­ca­tions to be use­ful with­out using the App Store and thus some Apps may just not exist any­more (SuperDuper is the easy example).

January 26, 2012 – 8:10 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments

Want to do com­ments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an arti­cle ele­ment inside your main arti­cle element.

January 26, 2012 – 1:22 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Programming, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off