February 2010
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Introducing Extract
Often while I’m working, I’ll watch a video of a talk or presentation. Usually, this involves jumping through a number of hoops to try to get a window that only shows the video. I’ll open it in a new browser window, resize it, hide all the toolbars and status bars, and adjust the scroll bars until it’s just right, and only the video is showing. Then I try to position the...
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System Status Pages
I’ve been really digging the status pages for various web apps/services lately. As these services grow larger, and we grow more dependent on them, it’s critical that we know how they’re operating. They’re typically one page sites with a single purpose - to report the status of the system. Usually, that is broken down into current status and recent status history, in which...