Author: Ryan Neudorf
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On Audio Blog Posts
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a blog where they author records themselves reading their post. I don’t see it often, I don’t think it’s a trend that’s ever really caught on and off the top of my head I can only think of one blogger (Jermey Keith) who regularly posts audio dictation.…
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The Problem with NPM
Whenever you run `npm install` it generates a local, project specific /node_modules/ directory with literally 10s of thousands of files and folders. Why?! WHY?! I understand that javascript is a simple scripting language, missing many features that are baked in to more traditional languages like PHP and friends. I understand that many node modules are…
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TIL Netflix Packets Never Leave Town!
I got a message from my ISP’s (Shaw) Bandwidth Team today. I wasn’t able to return the call, but I suspect they were calling to scold me about my bandwidth usage. Some History Bandwidth cap policies were a knee jerk reaction from ISPs ill-prepared for the era file-sharing on Napster and later voracious bittorrent usage. An era when…