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For the first time in what I can only estimate to be years, I found an album review on pitchfork that made me want to actually listen to something I had never heard and boy am I glad I did. Schoolboy Q is by far the best new rapper I’ve heard in a long time.
What’s the best new music you’ve found recently?
if a feature or product were legitimately easy the user would not be writing in to support about how stuck they are.
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The best support is a conversation. The best support happens when a user learns how to do something new and you learn about how your product can be better.
If you ever provide custom support, this article is a must read.
The US has closed down its embassy in Syria and pulled all of its employees out of the country, amid reports that the Syrian military is intensifying its assault on the central city of Homs.
via US closes embassy in Syria – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.
This is usually one of the final steps before an attack. If the Security Council doesn’t act in the next few weeks, I fully expect action under someone else’s banner. If I was to put a time table on it, I would say sometime towards the end of this month, beginning of next.
Every year for the past ten years, I have spent at least part of the third Monday of January listening to Dr. King’s “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” speech. It’s my tradition and one I encourage you to partake in as well:
A cool project that my team at AddThis worked on to start the new year was to build an individual info graphic for a number of our publishers. To do this, we built a basic HTML page and used PhantomJS to convert them into pngs. We then used imagemagick to spice things up a bit. All in all, they turned out pretty cool and hopefully the publishers agree once they have had a chance to check them out.
Check out the info graphic for this site after the jump. It’s pretty cool to see how people shared my content over the last year.
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I’ve started using two chrome extensions lately. Both are pretty simple and are designed to make one thing easier.
The first is The Png Project which makes it so that on any Noun Project page, you can download the image as a png. I used it when I made Aaron Jorbin in 2011.
The second is by Evan Solomon and it adds a link the the SVN repository of any WordPress plugin on the plugin repository page you are on. WordPress.org Plugins SVN Link comes in handy if you’re the type that looks at the code of various WordPress plugins. Evan put the code on github and accepted a pull request of mine to remove a dependency on jQuery.
Anyone have any chrome extensions they’ve found come in handy lately?
It wasn’t long ago that there was a “Blue Collar Caucus” in congress that included a mill foreman, a barber, a pipe fitter and a house painter.
Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity.
Over the same period, the wealth of an American family has declined slightly, with the comparable median figure sliding from $20,600 to $20,500, according to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan.
via Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents – The Washington Post.
Perhaps if our representatives were more like us, they would care about the things we care about.
Aaron Jorbin is a Washington, DC based Web Developer who builds and manages custom websites, applications, and WordPress plugins. He strives to always build high quality experiences for all users of web applications.
He also writes and shares information about the past, his random opinions, and personal adventures.