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Bye Skype

Memories of Skype, including building a backup business on it, that mysterious cat emoji, and a landline with Skype built in. We'll miss you!

Staying Chrome?

Can I use a Chromebook for work? I'm blocked by the lack of comprehensive VPN support and the lack of a decent Skype client.

Going Chrome

Part one in my adventure in switching to a Chromebook, figuring out how to make it work for most of my tasks and then eventually returning to Windows.

Banner Chat

What is the difference between chat notifications and chat banner notifications in Skype?

Twenty-Four Hours with Twilio

Using Twilio's SMS API in a hackathon - I got a full phone version of our product working in 24 hours.

Leaving Chrome

Why I moved back to Windows after a year of using a Chromebook as my secondary system.

Apparently you can’t build an alternative to Facebook without Facebook integration…

Altly prepares to launch an alternative to Facebook... and it has a Like button!

Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar

A modest proposal for a service to randomly connect salespeople together on useless video calls to raise the cost of spraying us with endless spam.

Full Outlook Web Access on Chromebook

How to spoof your user agent to get full Outlook web access working on Chromebook, including the browser extension and user agent.

GetvCard shutting down at the end of 2013

GetvCard, the contact information sharing service based on vCard, shut down at the end of 2013 and is no longer available.