Derrick Schultz June 11, 2014 SECRETS 10 Comments If you’re familiar with doing web development, you know one of the best tools in any web developers toolbox in the Web Inspector. It allows you to ins
I am in over my heart on the LGBTQ situation and the church. I am also in over my head. As a Christian ethicist who believes Scripture is the measure for matters of faith, doctrine, and conduct, I hav
Open Review Quarterly 2010-present A collaboratively edited literary journal on modern culture. Pedal Zombies 2014 I illustrated the cover for the book Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Zombie Science Fiction Stories Fast Company's Most Creative People profile of me Technology the discerning city bike…
In reading the fascinating article by @meharris about the DARPA challenge for reassembling shredded strips of documents, I was struck by how the article concluded by assuming that the failure of the t
Git can support your project not just with version control, but also with collaboration and release management. Understanding how Git workflow patterns can help or hinder a project will give you the k
tl;dr — Khan Academy claims alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) but an analysis of their eighth-grade year indicates that alignment is loose. 40% of Khan Academy exercises assessed t
The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young…
At GitHub, we have a very specific way of working. For one, we use GitHub to build GitHub. Not just for code, but to collaborate on things like Legal, Marketing, and internal policies. But it’s not th
Nearly twenty million Americans now say that they regularly experience stomach problems after eating products that contain gluten. Illustration by Paul Rogers Just after Labor Day, the Gluten and Alle
Everything gets cooked in one pot, making this an easy-to-make, easy-to-clean stew, perfect for a lazy Sunday or for your next camping trip. The soup gets better as it sits, developing flavor in the f
A tutorial by paper engineer Mahir Cecen, this is how to make a paper airplane that flies far . In fact, all of Cecen’s paper plane videos are titled that, so you’ll have to test them all out and let
Guest Post By William Hertling – williamhertling.com (Author) William Hertling is a web strategist, programmer, father, short-order cook and the author of two award-winning and best-selling techothril
Apache Storm recently became a top-level project , marking a huge milestone for the project and for me personally. It's crazy to think that four years ago Storm was nothing more than an idea in my hea
I may have watched my last Civil-War reenactment. We’ll see. It’s not like giving up re-enactments will leave a gaping void in my life. I only saw my first one a year ago. By that time I’d been teachi
In This Recipe Partially dehydrating canned black beans in the oven solves the problem of mushy texture that plagues most black bean burgers. Crumbled feta cheese adds moisture and seasoning right int
A few years ago, I was caught up in a big research project about contemporary hymns (or “hymnody,” as they say in the trade). I listened to hundreds of hymns on Spotify; I interviewed a bunch of hymn
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman With all this talk about the home cooked meal with family —is it an elite foodie construct , a romantic ideal that make parents, moms in particular, guilty, or a source o
Ok, we didn’t exactly ban email. We still have accounts, primarily for external communication. But, people are also more than welcome to leave them on for notifications from internal apps. Email gets
These days, it seems that if you want to get a nice sharp lens, you have to spend $1000 on a piece of L glass. Aside from the nifty fifty’s of the world, there are very few lenses that deliver quality
I’ve been using the Unix command line since 1983 and like most software developers, the Terminal app is a permanent fixture in my Dock. Over the years I’ve learned a lot of things that make working in
You’re greeted at the pearly gates to heaven by St. Peter who asks where you’d like to spend eternity. “Well, heaven of course!” you say. Peter replies: “You have to check out hell just to see what yo
For chefs at the Marigold Kitchen in Philadelphia, as in most professional kitchens, it's all about order and organization. Dan Charnas/For NPR Americans are obsessed with celebrity chefs. We talk abo
I have seen the future of iced coffee. There I was, wandering the grocery-store aisles—when suddenly, next to the kombucha, opposite the rotisserie chickens, I spotted something I never thought I’d li
Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. I gave birth to twins a little more than a year ago, and at the baby showers we received many books: colorful board books, big illustrated books,
The philosophy of great customer service 2014-06-29 I was honestly surprised that my company, CD Baby, was such a runaway success.But I was even more surprised to find out why. CD Baby had lots of pow
Below is the eulogy I delivered at Rebecca’s funeral, as I wrote it. I hope that what I actually said matches the text. The same deep shock that let me speak also prevented me from retaining any clear
Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler , shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea what
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean by Lisa-ann Gershwin, with a foreword by Sylvia Earle University of Ch
A version of this story first appeared in the May 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. NBC executives stood before a sea of media buyers in Avery Fisher Hall 15 years ago this month and unveil
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Last week The Atlantic published a tough article on cities’ recent experience with privatization—by which they meant making contracts with private organizations to do what public employees previously
In preparation for leaving Google , Iwanted a new computer in time to make sure I could get all thenon-Google stuff (pictures, blogging software, music) moved off myGooglemac. I got a maxed-out MacBoo
The Associated Press asked Ellen DeGeneres for permission to share her now-famous Oscar selfie with subscribers to their photo service. But does Ellen have the right to give it away? Who owns that picture?
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