Status Report: Jobs, Bugfixing, Guidelines, More OAuth Providers
Howdy, folks!This is just a quick status report about what's going on with Gun.io. Still roamin' the prairie..On the whole, things are going really well! We're starting to find more jobs and freelance...
View ArticleSecure Your Domain - Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
Across the globe, governments have adopted policies of seizing domain names as a way to shut down content they find objectionable. This has become a primary censorship tactic of the United States...
View ArticleA Placeholder Template Tag for Django
Extremely quick blog post!Here's how to make a crude template tag which lets you add the HTML5 'placeholder' attribute to your form field inputs and textareas in a Django template.Drop this in...
View ArticleHow To Hire Android Developers
Hey there, green buddy!So, you've got an idea for a new mobile app, or perhaps you have an iPhone app and you want to hire an Android developer to port your iPhone app to Android.What should you be...
View ArticleSwitching From Coffee to Caffeine Pills
Mmmm.If you've ever met me (especially if you've met me in the early morning), you'll know that I'm a caffeine addict. I'm very grumpy if I can't get my morning jolt, and I usually drink coffee...
View ArticleHow to GitHub: Fork, Branch, Track, Squash and Pull Request
This guide will teach you how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub. It assumes that you already know about how to use Git for version control and that you already have a GitHub...
View ArticleTech Jobs Map
Try the Tech Jobs Map Here!A New Way to Explore JobsNow that we've started to have a steady stream of jobs appearing on our site, we wanted to come up with some innovative and intuitive ways to explore...
View ArticleIntroducing JobMappr! (It's like PadMapper for Jobs!)
Click on the map to play with JobMappr!Good news! We've just launched JobMappr, a visual way to explore over 40,000 job opportunities! Check it out! It lists all sorts of jobs, from programming jobs to...
View ArticleHow (Not) to Botch A Product Launch
Earlier this week we launched our new product, JobMappr.com. Of course, you didn't hear about it because we completely flubbed the launch. Somebody submitted it across social media sites before we...
View ArticleA Proposal Generator/Template for Freelancers
This is what it looks like on the inside. See an example or try it for yourself!We've just launched a new tool for freelancers that generates nice, itemized proposals for responding to RFPs!The data is...
View ArticleHow the GitHub Network Graph is Broken
What?(I've griped about this before, so I'll try to keep this post short.)GitHub updated their graphs page today. Lovely! Unfortunately, they didn't update the 'Network' graph, which is the most...
View ArticleArguments by Analogy are Fallacies
Arguments by analogy are fallacies. Almost any analogy between any two things contains some grain of truth, but one cannot tell what that is until one has an independent explanation for what is...
View ArticleOpen Source Business: How to Support A Family of 5 By Running An Open Source...
tl;dr: While seeking open source audio software, I found a project which asks for a small donation before you can download the application binaries. I interviewed the leader of the project and found...
View ArticleHow One Form Field Killed 60% of Our Sales
A Thirty-Minute Blog Post!A few weeks ago we got an email from somebody who wanted to post a job on Gun.io, but it wasn't working and they couldn't see why. There was no record in our database, so we...
View ArticleSocial Chaos is a A Hill-Climbing Algorithm
"Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of...
View ArticleWebP2P - New Peer to Peer Technology on the Web
This isn't the best illustration. There'll be a proper logo soon.UPDATE: WebP2P has a new home! Check it out at WebP2P.org!There is a new mailing list for peer to peer hackers who are interested in...
View ArticleHacker Lifestyle Tips: How to Feel Satisfied With Every Day
I like to consider myself a very productive person. I do a lot of writing, I make a good living running my own business and I maintain many open source projects. And yet, by outward appearances, I...
View ArticleFacebook and Zynga Stock Prices, Side By Side
Facebook and Zynga Stock Prices, Side by Side. From Google Finance.This is the stock prices of Facebook and Zynga, side by side. Clearly, there is a strong relationship here, and I don't think Zynga is...
View ArticleRodney Mullen's TED Talk on how Skateboarding is Like Free Culture and Open...
The whole talk is great, but the part about Free Software/Free Culture starts at 11:46Rodney Mullen is the greatest skateboarder of all time. He invented damn near every trick in the book, and all...
View ArticleDjango: Find Most Recently Logged in Users
Tiny blog post!Do you want to find the most recently logged in users in your Django application? Cool, no problem. You'll be filtering and sorting your most active users in no time.Here's how you do...
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