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Writing about software, product building, and practical AI.
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Top 5 Website Performance - July 2015
The site I write the code for, approvedfood.co.uk, on my own is consistently ranked Top 5 for performance in the UK! We beat eBay in July! IRUK 500: Web Performance Tracker for...
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WriteDaily at Year Two: Lessons from 25,000 Writing Sessions
Two years and 25,000 writing sessions into WriteDaily, the daily writing tool at writedaily.co has taught me more about habit formation, product design, and the gap between...
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Fix node privileges when using brew
Fix node privilege issues when installed via brew. User will be constantly receive permission denied without this fix.
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Optimising NGINX & PHP-FPM
Some notes from another round of performance optimisation of our server stack hosting our online platform that dramatically improved customer experience too.
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High WindowServer CPU load on Mac MacOS Yosemite
My MacBook Pro was recently suffering from 100% CPU pretty much all of the time and it took quite a while to solve them problem and breathe life back into my workhorse.
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Relocating to Github.io
I recently chose to take up the challenge of using github.io to host my long standing blog.
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What Limited Connectivity Taught Me About Protected Focus
A week with difficult internet access changed how I handled email, calls and online noise. The useful lesson was not disconnection: it was deciding when communication deserved...
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Outsourcing Artwork for Better Game Development
Hi, my name is David Tolley and I'd like to share my many years of
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The Polarising Size of Video Game Developers
There used to be a time when developers of all sizes existed from small
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Book Review - Linchpin, Seth Godin
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