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      <title>An Outside Observer's Prediction on When AI Will Perform Surgery</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>My prediction:Within the next 40 years, AI-powered robotic systems will perform surgical procedures autonomously — starting with anatomically bounded procedures and advancing toward complex interventions. It won't happen because surgeons are inadequate. It will happen because the technology is compo</description>
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      <title>Walking Toward the Future: A Tour of Charleroi's Next Chapter</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Last week I walked Charleroi's Main Street with some of Washington County's most committed public servants. The point wasn't a presentation. It was to walk the streets together and talk through what's actually possible.</description>
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      <title>What Small-Town Entrepreneurs Get Right</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Christie Johnson and Max Miller run Ignite, a business incubator based at Washington &amp; Jefferson College. I came across their work while spending time in the area, and it's worth writing about — because what they're doing is one of the more honest answers I've seen to the question of how you actuall</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Most people only know Pittsburgh through one lens: a tech city with universities, hospitals, and downtown cultural institutions. That's real. But it's not the whole story. The more interesting discovery happens when you look at what exists in the periphery — where people actually live and where the </description>
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      <title>Halloween and What It Actually Tells You About a Neighborhood</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>You can measure the health of a neighborhood by how many trick-or-treaters show up on Halloween. Not metaphorically. Literally. Kids walking through the streets on October 31st means families. Families mean stability. Stability compounds.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>In Flagler Beach, Florida, I spent my summers as a city lifeguard. It was the kind of job that gave you a front-row seat to everyone passing through. Most of them passed. Angelo stayed.</description>
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      <title>WebFlow to Shopify Tutorial</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>How to move WebFlow over to Shopify with Udesly.</description>
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      <title>Half of your annual salary is not your hourly rate.</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I just moved out to SF and I am looking for new opportunities. So naturally, I am talking with everyone. I took a brief call with a local recruiter this week and I want to share a part of our conversation that I had with him.</description>
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      <title>Founder’s Updates for Feb 2019</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>2019 is off to a great start — It has been six months since the soft launch.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>No? Neither did I, until earlier this month when I was sent a video, watched it, and then decided to go explore the Berkshires to learn more about it.</description>
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      <title>Aging Money Method</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>This method is to help you learn hownotto live from paycheck to paycheck. The beautiful part is that it will make you feel more secure and confident. You should only have set this up once and only make minor adjustments to reflect your lifestyle as life goes on.</description>
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      <title>Discover closed my account</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>A few weeks ago I received an email from Discover informing me that they are closing my credit carddue to serious delinquencies and my balances being too high on other accounts. Before receiving this email I had no clue that a company could do this. I have never heard or even seen this before.</description>
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      <title>FiStatus Podcast 000 — Trailer</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>We are proud to announce theFiStatus Podcastwith your host Kevin Quinn and co-host Kennedy.</description>
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      <title>The Financial Diet book giveaway.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Last night I purchasedThe Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Moneywritten by Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hage from The Financial Diet and finished it this morning. Although I was not the intended audience, I still found it valuable. They did a great job of explaining conc</description>
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      <title>Debugging CSS Before Debugging Tools</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Firebugchanged my front-end development career, thanksJoe Hewittfor creating it. Before Firebug was around there wasn’t much for debugging your code. I remember years ago working on an e-commerce website and having to print out all the code, on physical paper, so I could like match up all the divs. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>When I purchased by first duplex I did some extensive research on pretty much everything. I made my own research notes so I could remember in the future for any other properties that I buy. I was recently asked by a couple of other rental property owners what paint I used. They found this informatio</description>
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      <title>Fixing some typos and grammatical errors</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Any reader of mine knows that I am pretty much the worst at spelling and grammar. The sad part is that I will go over my writing a few times to make sure that there are no errors. There has never been a time where I’ve gotten it 100% correct. I normally have my good friendBrianor my other good frien</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I figure I would share my results from taking aMyers-Briggstest from16 Personalities.</description>
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      <title>WeWork is not boring yet</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>A lot of people have been asking me how the new job at WeWork is going; very typical conversation starter. The simple black and white answer I give them is that “I am not bored yet.” The follow-up question they ask is “well, are you happy?” Of course, I’m happy, I am always happy and if I’m not I fi</description>
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      <title>Venus Fly Truck</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>We have all seen Venus flytrap, some of you might have owned one at some point. They devour flys while sucking up the sun. I am thinking that we could cook a few of these up and sell them as the centerpiece on a nice salad. We could have three options: vegetable, fruit, and meat. This would make the</description>
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      <title>How we got bacon &amp; eggs</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Last night I was chatting with my friendFranckabout life. One of the talking points he brought up was how bacon and eggs came to be. I love hearing stories like this. Another good one is how the ad agencyN.W. Ayerdesigned and executed a marketing strategy for De Beers to make diamonds the symbol of </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Our team won 1st place at Code vs. Cancer</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I am excited to announced that my teamCirclywon 1st place this weekend at theCode vs. Cancer hackathon. This was one of the most meaningful hackathons I have participated in. Cancer in my family seems inevitable. I happy to hack for a cause that is so close to me.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Quick note, I am not an accountant nor do I have any formal education with math or money. I am just some guy that has made a lot of mistakes over the years and learned from them.</description>
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      <title>My process for creating mobile apps</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>This systematic approach is something that we have successfully been using on all of our projects, large and small. It helps guide us down the right path and it’s a way to ensure everyone is on the same page. I want to make sure that you not only love my work but also love working with me.</description>
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      <title>iPhone Mocks for Sketch</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Over the past couple years we have been working on our own version of iPhone views that are commonly used. These may look a lot liketeehan+lax iPhone GUI elements, that’s because they were a huge inspiration along the way. Every time they created a new resource we always downloaded it and checked it</description>
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      <title>Octopus Watch</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Recently I have been doing a lot of work with one of my financial clients which required a lot of research on my part. Not only did I research the US market, but I wanted to know what was happening in other countries. I quickly found that some places have special ways of paying — including the Oyste</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>This is a first of many posts where I share some ideas that I don’t plan on working on because I want tofocus on fewer ideas.</description>
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      <title>Focusing on less ideas</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Noticed how I didn’t title it “Focusing on one idea”. I accepted a long time ago that I am not wired to focus on just one idea. In my 20’s I thought I could do everything and I wanted to do everything. This is a common phase they all young entrepreneurs go through. I attempted to do a lot of things </description>
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      <title>Global Entry Photo</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I just got back from a little vacation / company retreat forTheron Studiosfrom Costa Rica. It was wonderful and much needed. In preparation for this trip I got my passport,TSA Pre✓™, and myGlobal Entrycard.</description>
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      <title>Just fill it up</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I want to share a little frustration that I recently rediscovered and it goes something like this.</description>
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      <title>My design setup for iOS apps</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>My goal is to documentmy workflow for iOS apps. Part 1 is to have a better understanding of where we should start when building iOS apps.</description>
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      <title>Per Scholas Volunteer Appreciation Night 2014</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Me and my good friend Brian were taken off guard but super excited to be there. Photo captured by Ken Moore Photo.</description>
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      <title>Using Google Drive as a hard drive</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>For the past couple weeks a few people have asked me how I have my files set up on my computer. I want to share my structure and how I keep everything organized.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>This past SaturdayBrianand I had to transcribe some copy for a website that we were building. We had to get a copy from a flat image and retype it out. We are talking about 20 pages worth.</description>
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      <title>Per Scholas Keynote Speaker</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Today the class of Cycle 11 at Per Scholas graduated and I was honored to be their keynote speaker. Per Scholas is a national non-profit organization based in New York City. Founded in 1994, they offer proven high-quality development opportunities to people in low-income, urban communities. Today, 1</description>
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      <title>Deploying a Jekyll site with a Rakefile</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>You have an awesome website built with Jekyll, but you need an easy way to publish it. The full article is published onGray Ghost VisualsunderDeploying a Jekyll site with a Rakefile.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Theron Studiosis proud to be a part of the First Class of startups to embark on this amazing journey. Theron Studios was one of the lucky 18 companies selected byMatt HarriganandCharles Bonello. Approximately 500 NYC startups applied to utilizeGrand Central Tech’s accelerator program which features </description>
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      <title>Fashionable Startup Swag</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Typically, most startups go the t-shirt route for their swag. I decided to go against the status quo this time.</description>
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      <title>Goodbye Google</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>A few weeks ago I decided it was time for a change and I am pretty sure everyone saw it coming.</description>
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      <title>Why We Design</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I have been doing a lot of thinking on why people design things, including myself. I have boiled it down intro four main categories. Designing for yourself, designing for clients, designing for the greater good, and designing for money. I think a designer could (and should) fall under all these cate</description>
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      <title>Welcome to NYC Tech</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>When I first moved here it was lonely and I felt ever so small. That was until I met the amazing tech community of NYC. I was a complete nobody that had nothing to offer and they welcomed me into their lives. From that point on I made sure whenever someone was new to town to help them out as much as</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Finding Garyvee’s Marbles</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I just wanted to say that it was a pleasure to see you twice this week. You’re an awesome speaker and have amazing energy. I would like to share a quick story with you.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>One of the most repetitive tasks that I do on my mobile devices is enter in my username and email address. I noticed a lot of people still typing each character in. I would share how to make your life a little more efficient. On both iPhone and Android devices you can setup keyboard shortcuts. I hav</description>
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      <description>I will be the first to admit that I give recruiters a lot of shit, but I will also admit that a few of them are truly great at their job and have been a huge help. Most of the time it is just spam. I have received countless emails addressed to a different name and jobs that are not even close to wha</description>
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      <description>Recently a few of you have reached out to inform me that you are offering $1,000 to refer someone for a role. I hate to break it to you but trust in my relationships is priceless.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I want to share with you how I deploy some websites with GitHub Service Hooks. I original found out about this method fromJeffrey Waywith his articleThe Perfect Workflow, with Git, GitHub, and SSH.</description>
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      <description>1. Tell us who you are in one sentence.I am a professional hacker in New York City.</description>
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      <description>Eventually you are going to actually fake it until you made it. Then what? I have been faking it my entire life. I have always lived by the motto “Fake it until you make it”. It is something I said to myself to make myself feel better about the lack of formal education. Something I never thought abo</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I am in a bit of a funk right now and I mostly blame it on not knowing what I want to do with my life or even what I want out of it. I’m happily married, live in an awesome place with a great view, making decent money, and successful in my own eyes. The only real goal I have ever had was to be rich,</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Hello, my name is Kennedy and I’m an domainaholic. It may not be easy for me to admit to others that I need help.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>I just got back from vacation and I took this photo while on the boat. I made it so it is super easy to replace the screenshot with yours. This will work with both iPhone 4 &amp; 5, but keep in mind the bottom half is cut off in the picture. Feel free to use it on any of your personal projects. Enjoy an</description>
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      <description>I really haven’t thought about it before, but I can tell you that I pretty much hate it. I have about 100 emails from the past week that I have haven’t responded to. To properly respond to everyone it is going to take a least a full day. I will most likely spend a few hours each day responding to th</description>
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      <description>You can always earn more money, but never more time. Time is always draining from our lives. You can never get time back.</description>
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      <description>Last night I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about Hackathons. I wanted to write a little follow up about some thoughts I was not able to express and clear up a few things that I talked about.</description>
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      <description>I have a confession to make. I am that asshole that accidentally pushes the wrong button more often than I would like to admit. Whether it is the up/down buttons or somehow the wrong floor, I hate myself when I do it and I feel like a complete idiot.</description>
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      <description>The team backstage after winning 2nd place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012.</description>
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      <description>PPI &amp; DPI is irrelevant when designing iPhone and iPad apps. Let me repeat that, PPI &amp; DPI does not matter. No, stop it. It does not matter if it is @1x or @2x, iPhone or iPad, it’s just irrelevant metadata.</description>
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      <description>Communication on the internet is great, but sometimes it is hard to get your tone across. Ever since@gf3proposed it to the@W3CI wanted a way to do it.</description>
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      <description>“The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations.”</description>
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      <description>It seems lately that everyone is talking about responsive design and few people are actually trying to implement it. After much research, a few attempts, and some heated, yet passionate, discussions I have come to the conclusion that some of it should never leave your local host. Don’t get me wrong,</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>About six months ago I started to build a website for a talented musician namedKevin Anderson. I first heard about him when I was listening toJangoand one thing led to another and I was building him a website. Not only do I love his music, he is a kickass person. We still talk on the phone as if we </description>
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      <description>It was a Wednesday afternoon with nothing going on. I get a phone call with desperation on the other end, it was my kid brother. “Hey, what are you doing? The jet ski is not working, it won’t turn on.” With nothing better going on, I decided to investigate and get out of the house. I arrive at the e</description>
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      <description>I just wanted to share an experiment I did to help decide the structure of a site. I do not know where the idea originated from, maybe it was in my head from a few things I have done in the past or maybe someone wrote about this earlier. I am sure someone will enlighten me.</description>
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      <description>For whatever reason I had a difficult time find this solution. It seemed like most of the articles were out of date. Please let me know if you need any help. Just add this to your functions.php in your theme directory.</description>
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      <description>I recently had to work on a little project that I required some polaroid images. I figured I would release for all to use.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>With the power of social media I stumbled across the story about 5 year old boy nameAidandiagnosed with Leukemia. Aidan is selling his drawings of monsters to help pay for the medical bills. I just purchased a wonderful piece of art for my office at work. You can read more about him on hisblog,Faceb</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>So the other day I was reading12 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpracticeand one of the items was talking about “Assuming K=100 is Black”. This had me thinking of how many different ways you can have the color black. I thought to myself, this would be a cool t-shirt. I came up with design and now j</description>
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      <description>Do not ask me to play thumb wars anytime soon. Today I was attacked by my Droid 2. The phone was running a bit slow so I decided to preform a battery pull. And that is when my whole life flashed in front of me. I try to pull down the back panel and it was putting up a good fight. I budged it down ju</description>
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      <description>A great dessert for 2. Have fun pulling the bread apart with a fork or get messy with your fingers. This is one of those foods you eat that take you back home, and remind you of the sweet times.</description>
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      <description>I ran into this little problem after watchingEasy E-Commerce With Magentotut over atNetTuts.</description>
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      <description>Here is your guide for woot.com. Woot is “is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap”. It is a great place to buy all kinds of things. Anything from a Bag of California Jumbo Premium Pistachios to an iRobot Roomba Sage for cheap, real cheap.</description>
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      <description>Here is a short story about my first day on the job in an ambulance as an EMT from back in the day. This is unedited and written shortly after the following event.</description>
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