Assorted writing by Jeff Reifman. Sort by year or topic.
2014
- Introduction to Ghost 0.5 (Tuts+)
- Publishing an eBook with WordPress (Tuts+)
- Using Science to Heal from Breakups
- Generate Social Media Activity With Social Locker (Tuts+)
- Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance (Tuts+)
- How to Build Rate Limiting into Your Web App Login (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin for Web Development (Tuts+)
- Be the First on Your Block Running IPv6 (Tuts+)
- Letter to the Editor Regarding Cutoff Culture Essay (The Guardian)
- How to Respond to Internet Rage (Medium)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Tuts+)
- Introduction to the Yii Framework (Tuts+)
- Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders (Crosscut)
- Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts (Tuts+)
- Shining Light on Internet Rage (Medium)
- Building an App from Your WordPress Site with AppPresser (Tuts+)
- Five Ways Your Medical Insurance Defines Deductible (Crosscut)
- How anti-slavery law created American corporate personhood (BoingBoing)
- Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache (Tuts+)
- Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud (Tuts+)
- Amazon’s Impact on Dating Resonated Widely
- Affordable Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do? (Crosscut)
- Turn on your data for one minute, AT&T sticks you with a $750 international roaming charge (BoingBoing), also in Slashdot, and T-Mobile CEO John Legere
- Election records: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes often, votes rarely (Geekwire)
- Publishing with WordPress
- Regarding the Controversy over Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Geekwire), also in Geekwire, Slashdot, Salon here and here, Dame Magazine, Glamour, Seattlish, The Stranger’s Slog, MyNorthwest, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, TechEye and PSBJ here and here
- It’s Time for a Populist War on Corruption (Medium)
- How to Secure Your Mac from Potential Theft, also in The Loop and The Chronicle
- How to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
- DIY IMAP Mail Filtering with features such as Routing, Quiet Hours, Whitelisting and Message Encryption (BoingBoing)
- How to Encrypt Messages in Gmail
2013
- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK (Mailgun)
- Do It Yourself Server and Web Site Monitoring with iOS/Android Notifications Using Pushover (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Slashdot), (source)
- How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL (Mailgun)
- Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature (The Stranger)
- WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall (BoingBoing)
- Third Anniversary of Washington State’s Big Tax Gift to Microsoft
- Using WordPress with Amazon Web Services
- How to Run Your Own Email Server in the Amazon Cloud – and GMail Alternatives (Jeff Reifman)
- Court whacking of Seattle on phone books lets corporations run legally amok (Crosscut)
2012
- The Stranger Is Wrong to Mock I-103 (The Stranger)
- Good Activism Breaks Law (Envision Seattle)
- How Phonebook Companies Are Wasting Seattle Taxpayers’ Money (Envision Seattle)
- Seattle’s stand against treating corporations as people (Crosscut)
- Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Initiative 103 Provides Tools Seattle Needs to Protect Our Community (Envision Seattle)
- How Things Change as Constitutional Rights Contract and Expand for People and Corporations (Envision Seattle)
- Pacific Northwest Emerging as a Stronghold for a New Kind of Activism (Envision Seattle)
- Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions in State Taxes, (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Nevada Tax Dodge and Its Impact on State Education
- Microsoft Won’t Release Royalty Tax Payments
- A Bill of Rights for Occupy Communities (CommonDreams), also in This Changes Everything!
2011
- Turning Occupation Into Lasting Change (BoingBoing)
- Model Net Neutrality Ordinance for Seattle (Slashdot)
- How to Legislate Net Neutrality in Your Community
- Why a Free and Open Internet Matters in Seattle
- The challenge of partnerships: NewsCloud looks back on a Knight-funded project that didn’t pan out (Nieman Lab)
2010
- How to Save $420 on Your Comcast Cable Bill This Year (TechFlash), also in Slashdot
- Twelve Gmail Ideas to Revolutionize Email (Again) (TechFlash)
- Dummies Guide to Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
- Raised by Radio Shack (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Microsoft wins its $100M tax-break and amnesty from broke-*** Washington State (BoingBoing)
- 10% Tax on Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut for MSFT (Slashdot)
- Microsoft to Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty (Slashdot)
2009
- Pay your tax, Bill! (TechFlash)
- Microsoft Freeloading in Washington State Courts (Slashdot)
- How we caught Wired Magazine’s Evan Ratliff
- Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier? (Nieman Reports)
- What to expect from the Apple MacPad: predicting the release of the long-rumored Mac Tablet (Slashdot), (archive)
- Microsoft’s Ten Year Disconnect Between Corporate Profit and Shareholder Returns
2008
2007
- Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications (Slashdot)
- How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook? (SysCon), also in Slashdot. Archive
- Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (Slashdot)
- Google AdSense API Closes to Small Sites (Slashdot)
- Facebook Leaves Advertisers Exposed to Hate Speech (Slashdot)
- Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties (Slashdot)
- Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio (Slashdot)
2006
2005
2004
- So You Want to Host Your Own Linux Server (Slashdot)
- Citizen Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
- Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow (Seattle Weekly)
2003
Assorted writing by Jeff Reifman. Sort by year or topic.
Culture
- Using Science to Heal from Breakups
- Letter to the Editor Regarding Cutoff Culture Essay (The Guardian)
- How to Respond to Internet Rage (Medium)
- Shining Light on Internet Rage (Medium)
- Amazon’s Impact on Dating Resonated Widely
- Regarding the Controversy over Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- You’ve Got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Geekwire), also in Geekwire, Slashdot, Salon here and here, Dame Magazine, Glamour, Seattlish, The Stranger’s Slog, MyNorthwest, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, TechEye and PSBJ here and here
- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture (Medium)
- Investing for Change (Seattle Weekly)
Democracy
- How anti-slavery law created American corporate personhood (BoingBoing)
- It’s Time for a Populist War on Corruption (Medium)
- Court whacking of Seattle on phone books lets corporations run legally amok (Crosscut)
- The Stranger Is Wrong to Mock I-103 (The Stranger)
- Good Activism Breaks Law (Envision Seattle)
- How Phonebook Companies Are Wasting Seattle Taxpayers’ Money (Envision Seattle)
- Seattle’s stand against treating corporations as people (Crosscut)
- Initiative 103 Provides Tools Seattle Needs to Protect Our Community (Envision Seattle)
- How Things Change as Constitutional Rights Contract and Expand for People and Corporations (Envision Seattle)
- Pacific Northwest Emerging as a Stronghold for a New Kind of Activism (Envision Seattle)
- A Bill of Rights for Occupy Communities (CommonDreams), also in This Changes Everything!
- Turning Occupation Into Lasting Change (BoingBoing)
- How to Legislate Net Neutrality in Your Community
Healthcare
Microsoft
- Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders (Crosscut)
- Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature (The Stranger)
- WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall (BoingBoing)
- Third Anniversary of Washington State’s Big Tax Gift to Microsoft
- Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions in State Taxes, (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Nevada Tax Dodge and Its Impact on State Education
- Microsoft Won’t Release Royalty Tax Payments
- Dummies Guide to Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
- Microsoft wins its $100M tax-break and amnesty from broke-*** Washington State (BoingBoing)
- 10% Tax on Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut for MSFT (Slashdot)
- Microsoft to Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty (Slashdot)
- Pay your tax, Bill! (TechFlash)
- Microsoft Freeloading in Washington State Courts (Slashdot)
- Microsoft’s Ten Year Disconnect Between Corporate Profit and Shareholder Returns
- Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio (Slashdot)
- Citizen Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
- Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow (Seattle Weekly)
Technology
- Introduction to Ghost 0.5 (Tuts+)
- Publishing an eBook with WordPress (Tuts+)
- Generate Social Media Activity With Social Locker (Tuts+)
- Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance (Tuts+)
- How to Build Rate Limiting into Your Web App Login (Tuts+)
- Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin for Web Development (Tuts+)
- Be the First on Your Block Running IPv6 (Tuts+)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Tuts+)
- Introduction to the Yii Framework (Tuts+)
- Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts (Tuts+)
- Building an App from Your WordPress Site with AppPresser (Tuts+)
- Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache (Tuts+)
- Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud (Tuts+)
- Affordable Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do? (Crosscut)
- Turn on your data for one minute, AT&T sticks you with a $750 international roaming charge (BoingBoing), also in Slashdot, and T-Mobile CEO John Legere
- Election records: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes often, votes rarely (Geekwire)
- Publishing with WordPress
- Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK (Mailgun)
- How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL (Mailgun)
- Using WordPress with Amazon Web Services
- Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures (BoingBoing), (archive)
- Model Net Neutrality Ordinance for Seattle (Slashdot)
- Why a Free and Open Internet Matters in Seattle
- The challenge of partnerships: NewsCloud looks back on a Knight-funded project that didn’t pan out (Nieman Lab)
- How to Save $420 on Your Comcast Cable Bill This Year (TechFlash), also in Slashdot
- Twelve Gmail Ideas to Revolutionize Email (Again) (TechFlash)
- Raised by Radio Shack (BoingBoing), (archive)
- How we caught Wired Magazine’s Evan Ratliff
- Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier? (Nieman Reports)
- What to expect from the Apple MacPad: predicting the release of the long-rumored Mac Tablet (Slashdot), (archive)
- Confirmed: Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Can Break Your MacBook Pro, (Slashdot)
- Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications (Slashdot)
- How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook? (SysCon), also in Slashdot. Archive
- Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (Slashdot)
- Google AdSense API Closes to Small Sites (Slashdot)
- Facebook Leaves Advertisers Exposed to Hate Speech (Slashdot)
- Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties (Slashdot)
- What do Firefox and Social Justice have in common? (Slashdot)
- So You Want to Host Your Own Linux Server (Slashdot)
Travel
Tutorials
- How to Secure Your Mac from Potential Theft, also in The Loop and The Chronicle
- How to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
- DIY IMAP Mail Filtering with features such as Routing, Quiet Hours, Whitelisting and Message Encryption (BoingBoing)
- How to Encrypt Messages in Gmail
- Do It Yourself Server and Web Site Monitoring with iOS/Android Notifications Using Pushover (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation (Slashdot), (source)
- How to Run Your Own Email Server in the Amazon Cloud – and GMail Alternatives (Jeff Reifman)
