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You're using Spotify wrong

I was at least, perhaps you're just better at this than me. Spotify has been my primary music consumption service since it launched in the United States in 2011. I have been a premium subscriber for nearly as long and [...]

Switching from Spotify to Apple Music and back again

Frustrated with recent playback issues with the Spotify desktop app, I engaged in a brief love affair with Apple Music. For me, Apple Music has a ton going for it. Out of the gate, the music selection seemed more robust [...]

Tracking peak users online with Redis

This probably isn't the best way to track things, but it's the best I came up with. Tracking the total number of users that log in per day or month is trivial as I have discussed in a previous post [...]

How to ride a bike without training wheels

Training wheels are an abomination and should be forced into extinction. I say this as someone that struggled to learn how to ride a bike because my parent's never took off my training wheels. Fortunately my neighborhood friends thought my [...]

The true cost of meetings

Meetings suck. It's a pretty universal sentiment across many companies and industries. "Meetings are toxic" is the war cry of the "Getting Real" generation. It's not just the time it takes to attend the meeting. It's the prep time. The [...]

SumoMe is hiring!

Cheesing out on this week's post as I'm scrambling to get ready for our company retreat in Puerto Vallarta. That being said, I woke up today and checked out our latest SumoMe email newsletter, A week in the life of [...]

Evernote? More like Evernope!

After a year and a half romp with Evernote, I am kicking it to the curb. You may remember last year when I broke away from the Apple ecosystem and moved from an iPhone to an Android device. That's when [...]

Email validation via MX lookup in PHP

Validating that an email addresses ain't what it used to be. I remember writing simple regular expressions that worked out really well. These days there are a bajillion TLDs with more being added all of the time. Something I started [...]

I deleted all of my email and it was GLORIOUS!

As glorious as it has been, it started out as an absolute struggle. Ya gotta get through the ghetto before you get to the meadow, amirite? So what led me down the path of total email annihilation? There were a [...]

Drizly shares your address via Twitter

TL;DR - Don't use Drizly's share your order link, unless you want everybody knowing where you're getting your sauce delivered to.* First off, I want to say that I am very happy to be part of the Drizly beta launch [...]