How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii and Mailgun
The great folks at Mailgun have published my tutorial: How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL also available on my blog. Mailgun is a scalable, cloud-based email engine that’s easy to integrate with your email-driven...
GMail Alternatives in the PRISM Age: How to Host Your Own Email Server in the Cloud
Update: You may be interested in Filtered, my new open source IMAP-based mail filtering application which includes the capability to encrypt selected messages, removing them from your IMAP or Gmail account. I’ve posted a new tutorial called, How to Install Your...
The Light that Comes From Inside
Go to a wide open space, Gaze without looking anywhere The mind stops its building of thoughts, And rests on its own foundation – Immensity. The light that you see by Is the light that comes from inside. – The...
News Judgment at The Seattle Times Goes Off the Rails
I’ve often mocked the editorial judgment at The Seattle Times e.g. for never covering Microsoft’s $1.51 billion Nevada tax dodge ($4.37 billion if you include impacts from lobbying) – likely due to their cozy ties with Microsoft’s tax dodger in...
Listening to: If You Leave by Daughter
I’ve been listening a lot to Daughter’s If You Leave. Here are some sample lyrics or listen to it below: Winter Drifting apart like two sheets of ice, my love Frozen hearts growing colder with time There’s no heat from...
The Seattle Times Executive Editor Covering Microsoft’s CEO Handshake
The Seattle Times failure to cover Microsoft’s $1.5 billion Nevada tax dodge is finally in the news again this week: The Stranger’s Slog Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature, Slashdot Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State’s Budget and...