Archive
Here you’ll find every post created on Johnathan.org since the beginning of time (or 2014).
November 2019
January 2019
December 2018
- 23: SpinupWP: The Best Service for Deploying Self-Hosted WordPress
- 23: 2018 Year in Review
- 17: Remastered film of Paris in the 1890s
- 17: Google Isn’t the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over to
- 15: Some thoughts on the 2018 Macbook Pro
- 06: WordPress 5.0
October 2018
- 30: Recap of Apple’s Updated Hardware from Today’s Event in Brooklyn
- 29: Stratechery: IBM’s Old Playbook
- 29: CBC Uncover: Escaping NXIVM
- 28: Outlaw King
- 27: Phone, Wallet, Keys
- 26: The NY Times: How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’
- 26: The Painted World of Red Dead Redemption 2
- 24: GrayKey iPhone Box Reportedly Cannot Unlock iOS 12 Devices
- 23: Alton Brown on Hot Ones
- 23: Facebook’s New Ad Archive Report
- 19: Apple CEO Tim Cook is Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
- 19: How Your Brain Works When You’re Brave
- 17: Apple’s New Data Privacy Tool
- 16: The Paper Prop Master
- 16: Facebook Could Use Data Collected from Portal Device to Target You with Ads
- 12: Busting Cloudflare Cache when Posting to WordPress via XML-RPC
- 12: DuckDuckGo climbs to 30 million daily searches, up 50% in a year
- 12: Sometimes Dead is Better
- 12: Stratechery: The Battle for the Home
- 12: Kanye West pitches Trump on ‘iPlane’ built by Apple, delivers table-top Apple store ‘keynote’
- 10: Empathy Sebatical
- 09: Bovet’s $460,000 Watch
- 09: Wi-Fi Switches from Obscure Protocol Names to Simple Generation Numbers
- 08: Alphabet Shuts Google+ Social Site After User Data Exposed
- 08: Not Voting Doubles the Value of Someone Else’s Vote
- 07: NY Times: Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s
- 07: Department of Homeland Security Denies Bloomberg Chinese Spying Chips Report
- 03: Tim Cook on China, Privacy, and Alex Jones in New VICE Interview
- 03: Wi-Fi Now Has Version Numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 Comes Out Next Year
- 02: Amazon is Raising Their Minimum Wage to $15/hour
- 01: Elon Musk Settles with the SEC
September 2018
- 29: Tim Berners-Lee’s Successor to The Internet
- 29: In a Major Course Correction, The PlayStation 4 Will Finally See Cross-Platform Play
- 28: Elon Musk is Being Sued by the SEC
- 28: Facebook Breach Exposes 50 Million Accounts
- 28: Making A Murderer, Season 2
- 27: Gizmodo: “Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information”
- 26: Dear Young People: Don’t Vote
- 26: Comcast Will Soon Own the Majority of Sky
- 26: How to Stop a Wildfire
- 26: The History of Electric Guitar Distortion
- 25: Qualcomm says Apple gave its trade secrets to Intel
- 25: They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
- 25: Amazon Plants Fake Packages to Catch Delivery Driver Theft
- 24: TechCrunch: Zoho Pulled Offline After Phishing Complaints
- 24: Mathematician Claims to have Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis
- 22: The Counterfeit Apple Accessories Market
- 21: College and the Fear of Change
- 21: iFixit Teardown of the iPhone XS and XS Max
- 20: AirPower’s Continued Development Hinted in iOS 12.1 Beta
- 20: Hodinkee: ‘How Apple’s Awesome Motion Watch Faces Are Made’
- 20: All the iPhone XS and XS Max Reviews in One Place
- 19: Tim Cook on Good Morning America
- 19: Building a Moon Base Today
- 19: Doctor and Medical Device Company Take Issue With Apple’s ECG Claims
- 18: Co-Founder of Salesforce Buys Time Magazine
- 17: Additional Details About What Happened to AirPower
- 17: MacStories’ iOS 12 Review
- 16: Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s Event
- 16: ArsTechnica’s Least Favorite Subjects to Cover
- 15: Are Technica’s Android 9 Mega Review
- 15: Om Malik’s Takeaways from the Apple Event
- 14: You can’t say anything anymore! You can’t even make jokes!
- 14: Dual-SIM Support Available Sometime After iOS 12 Release
- 14: On Deciding to Buy the Next iPhone
- 13: Hurricane Florence Smashes into the East Coast of the United States
- 12: Review of Today’s Apple iPhone and Watch Announcements
- 12: Apple iPhone Event is Today
- 11: Anil Dash’s reflection on the Last 17 Years since September 11, 2001
- 11: Leaked Images of 6.1″ iPhone Sim Trays Infer Dual-Sim Support
- 11: A Potential Solution to Our Social Network Problem
- 11: Zuckerberg admits Facebook’s ban of Alex Jones was prompted by Apple’s decisions
- 11: Tom Cotter’s Best Barn-Find Collector Car Tales
- 10: Apple Event Rumors Piling Up
- 09: Verizon Discovers Consumers Care About Privacy, Not Perks
- 09: At U.S. Open, Power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is Overshadowed by an Umpire’s Power Play
- 08: Apple Has Permanently Banned Alex Jones’ Infowars App From The App Store
- 07: Fake McDonald’s Poster Prank
- 07: Rest in Peace, Burt Reynolds
- 07: Alex Jones, Infowars Permanently Banned from Twitter
- 06: Medium as a Blogging Platform
- 06: Snap Stock Price Sinks to an All-time Low
- 06: The Colin Kaepernick-Nike Boycott
- 05: PowerPort Mini: The Charging Device Apple Should Have Made
- 04: Galaxy S10 Will “Defeat” Shiny New iPhones
- 04: MacPaw’s CleanMyMac X Review
- 03: Reddit Moderators are Regularly Verbally Abused, Receive Death Threats
- 03: Twitter CEO Allegedly Vetoing Bad Actor Removals
- 03: What Does a Nuclear Bomb Feel Like?
- 03: Rest in Pancakes, Kenny Shopsin
- 01: Google Violations
- 01: Apple’s Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended
August 2018
- 31: Brilliant
- 30: Affinity Publisher Beta
- 30: Apple Event and Leaked Product Shots
- 29: Password Rules
- 29: La Vie on the Wharf
- 28: Pro Gamer Might Never Play Games Again
- 28: President Trump says Google Search Results Rigged Against Him
- 28: Waymo Cars Have a Hard Time Making Left Turns
- 28: The cars have eyes
- 25: Plain Text Lists
- 24: Apple Online Store Security Flaw Exposed PINs of T-Mobile Customers
- 24: An Analysis on the Low-Cost Apple Laptop Rumors
- 23: Relay FM’s New Swag
- 23: California’s Net Neutrality Bill Advances and is Close to Final Passage
- 23: Idle Android Devices Send 10x Data to Google Than Idle iOS Devices to Apple
- 22: Uber Settlement: $1.9 Million for Harassment Claims
- 22: Newsletters Will Never Die
- 22: First Time Tooter
- 21: Going Back to Your Mac No More
- 21: Slack Raises $427 Million; $7.1 Billion Valuation
- 21: Manafort Convicted on 8 Counts; Mistrial Declared on 10 Others
- 21: Dropping The Low-Cost Mac Mini Would be a Mistake
- 20: New Philips Hue Rigid Light Strips
- 19: The London Museum Sewage Livestream
- 16: Pentagon Delays Trump’s Military Parade
- 15: Mac vs PC Ads
- 15: The Credit Card Skimmer Detector
- 13: Considering a Return to WordPress
- 13: The Blockchain Voting Shenanigans Continue
- 12: Interview With an Old Person
May 2018
- 31: Deploying A Jekyll Static Site with Circle CI
- 29: The Static Site Book
- 21: A Week of Cloudflare Argo
- 15: The Apple Class-Action Lawsuit
- 14: Lazy-loading Retina Images in a Jekyll Site
- 06: Easy Redirect Links Within Jekyll
- 05: An Auto-deploying Static Site with Backend
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
- 20: Where Work Happens
- 10: Remote Work
January 2018
- 18: Linode vs Digital Ocean: A Three-Round VPS Benchmark Showdown
- 10: Comparing Performance of Multiple Apple Devices Before and After Spectre Security Update
- 07: On Developing a WordPress Theme
- 04: From Ghost to WordPress
December 2017
- 28: Goals for 2018
- 28: My 2017 Year in Review
- 27: Status: Available
- 20: Doubling Down on DNS Records
- 14: Happy Holidays
- 13: Google’s 2017 Year in Search
- 12: The (Un)Balanced Social Media Landscape
- 12: On Moving to Johnathan.org
- 08: Fixing Browsersync Not Reloading
- 04: Amateur Colorist
November 2017
- 28: Charging the iPhone X
- 13: Anker Karapax
September 2017
August 2017
- 30: JPEGmini
- 29: Drop
- 28: John.ly Version 2
- 23: The Mac Mini: A Versatile Hub Forgotten By Its Maker
- 15: Anker Roav Dash Cam Review
June 2017
April 2017
March 2017
- 23: Restore the Anywhere Option to Run Apps from Unidentified Developers in macOS Sierra
- 01: Do You Know Why You’re Suffering?
February 2017
- 28: Two Years With Harry’s
- 27: 100,000 Words
- 26: Special Snowflakes
- 25: Where’d the Wine Go?
January 2017
- 06: Weekly Wine Issue #04
- 05: This One’s For the Guys
- 04: Emotional Decisions
- 03: Boy Bye Bot
- 02: A Simple Coffee Shop Musing
- 01: Happiness Is a Problem
December 2016
- 31: Top Posts of 2016
- 30: How Hard Are You Trying?
- 28: Weekly Wine
- 27: The 2017 Book Club
- 26: Resolutions
- 25: My Year in Review
- 09: How Long Has it Been?
July 2016
- 29: My Learn Ruby on Rails List
- 21: Polymail
- 11: Live Streaming with Hardware Acceleration using a Raspberry Pi and RTMP/HLS
- 09: Revenant
- 08: Add RTMP Support to Nginx Installed From Apt
- 08: The Taste of Reckoning
- 04: Attempting to Stream a Webcam to an RTMP Server
- 03: Fighting ffmpeg
June 2016
May 2016
- 29: Constantly Improving
- 28: Blogging, Statically Speaking
- 28: The CDN Contemplation
- 17: Forget How to Spell with Irn Bru
- 17: Get After it with Liquid Sugar and Lucozade Energy
- 17: The International Beverage Bonanza
April 2016
- 08: The Dolby Atmos(phere)
- 04: Internet Arguments: Even Garbage Fires Can be Extinguished
- 03: On Going Back to Regular Books
March 2016
January 2016
- 25: The Pulp Fiction Live Blog
- 19: My Postmates Experience Live Blog
- 14: Sorry, Sodastream, Coke is Still Number One
- 07: Testing Out a New Temporary Markdown Editor
December 2015
- 15: Harder Than it Should Be: Jekyll Word Count
- 07: My Overloaded Server Story
- 07: Goodbye Mailbox
- 07: How I Made Jekyll Post Generation Just a Touch Easier
- 07: Please Welcome Dr. Jekyll
November 2015
October 2015
- 31: Starting Soon: Bloc.io
- 25: How to Fix Misspelled Column Names in a Ruby on Rails Database
- 23: Future Ruby on Rails Developer
- 20: The iMac as Told From the Inside
- 20: Headspace
- 19: Formula E: All the Speed Without the Noise
- 17: Extra Life 2015
- 16: Macs Equal Fewer Helpdesk Calls
- 15: Total Transparency
- 14: On Never Quitting
- 14: The Costs of Technology
- 12: Become a Genius
- 11: Enemies Considered
- 11: Psychological Life Hacks
- 10: Re-Invent High School
- 05: This Mountain
- 05: Moving
- 05: Monsoon II
- 04: Starting Ruby on Rails
- 03: So Far
- 02: The Difference Four Years Makes: Part 2: Disk IO
- 02: The Difference Four Years Makes
- 01: Ryan Gibley on The Martian
- 01: The Martian
- 01: Replacing My Four-Year-Old Macbook Pro
September 2015
- 28: The Cold Brew Coffee Adventure
- 21: Wearing your Apple Watch 24/7
- 20: The Solar System
- 16: Freeing the Mobile Device from the Carrier
- 15: Apple Corporate Retail Store Re-Opens on September 19th
- 07: LinkedIn Target’s Slack
August 2015
- 28: Lies for Money
- 27: Conquering the Dev Career
- 16: Upgrading to SSL
- 06: Dump Flash
- 06: Eleven Million
- 06: On Web Comics
July 2015
- 28: My First Legitimate Vagrantfile
- 27: Point of No Return
- 26: Sunday Fun Day
- 24: Leaf Turning
- 24: On Docker (Briefly)
- 21: Focusing on the Future, Part 1
- 09: Custom Domains on Medium
- 09: A Post I Wrote with Writed
- 08: Elder Scrolls Online: Tamirel Unlimited
- 02: Wireless Streaming of Spotify (sort of)
June 2015
- 30: StackEdit
- 25: 48 Hours of Slack
- 24: Crozdesk
- 19: The Great Discourse
- 19: Creativity
- 16: Incapacity
- 16: Keeping Score
- 11: Learn Up
- 07: The Cost of Cutting the Cord
- 06: Get Your Gear Out
- 05: Time for a Reset
May 2015
- 22: Beginner’s Mind
- 07: Forget Your Goals
- 06: How to Learn to Code
- 06: Morning Email: Check In Without Checking Out
- 04: Choosing Your Words
- 03: Create High-Resolution Mockups for Your App or Site with Promotee
- 03: 18 Resources for Getting Started with WordPress
- 02: Dart: Java-Free Android Apps
- 02: Bulk Updating Any Meta Values in WordPress Posts Automatically
April 2015
- 30: For-Profit Colleges
- 30: The Sad, Lonely World of Yik Yak
- 30: The Vox Media Open Source Meme Generator
- 26: Like That Zappos Guy
- 26: 100 Books
- 23: Killing It In People Relations
- 21: Norway’s Radio
- 16: Ten Days a Californian
- 11: Dust Settling
March 2015
- 28: The Microwave
- 28: Endgame
- 27: Sundays
- 25: Redis
- 25: Stress
- 23: Missing Images
- 23: Why This Site
- 22: Swifty
- 21: Hands on with GAget
- 20: iPhone Trade In
- 17: Commuting and Wasted Time
- 17: Magic
- 16: Blocks
- 16: Open-Source SageTV
- 16: Triple Digits on Earth
- 15: Forty Years
- 14: Getting Started with Loggly Part 2: The Cool Stuff!
- 14: Getting Started with Loggly
- 14: Make School
- 14: GAget
- 14: Your First App with Little Background
- 14: Maximize Your Free Cloud Storage
- 12: DevOps
- 12: Remotely Working
- 12: Write What You Know
- 11: Goodbye Dev Blog
- 10: The Stack
- 07: Failure, Part 3
- 06: Girl Code
- 06: Using Words
- 05: Freebies
- 04: Recovering From Failure, Part 2
- 02: Galaxy S6
- 02: Shot on iPhone 6
- 02: The Weekend Off
February 2015
- 27: Live Long and Prosper
- 27: Buzz Killers
- 27: Apple Event: March 9
- 27: Mistakes
- 26: Title II is a Thing
- 26: New Google HQ
- 26: Make a Film with an iPad
- 25: Measles
- 25: Power Rangers
- 25: Useful Mac
- 24: Lenovo Lawsuits
- 24: AWS Summit SF 2015
- 24: Making it to 100
- 23: Three Hobbies
- 23: Always Find Time
- 23: Alone
- 23: Tomorrow
- 23: Self-Comparison
- 22: Tweet Deleter
- 21: Do or Die
- 21: Putting In the Effort to Become a Professional Life Liver
- 21: Apple Repairing Macbooks for Free
- 21: Fake SSL: Another Reason to Own a Mac
- 20: Internetaholics Anonymous
- 20: Desk 1.2
- 20: The Fountain of Youth
- 19: Another New Book
- 19: Express Yourself
- 18: Turning Pro
- 17: Creativity
- 17: CrashPlan
- 16: After 40 Days of Writing
- 16: The Invisible Girlfriend
- 14: Computer on the Bus
- 14: Time to Stop Hounding McDonalds
- 13: Thinking About Old Posts
- 12: Office Online Update Bring Better PDF Stuff and Other Stuff
- 12: Kill Switch: Engage
- 12: No Fly Zone
- 11: Le Gouffre
- 11: As You Think
- 10: Playlist for Heads Down Working Hard
- 10: Photos for Mac
- 10: Apple World.Today
- 09: CodeAcademy – The Basics of Code in One Hour
- 09: Morning Musicals
- 09: The Best Way I Make Life Changes
- 07: Financial Planning and Investment Apps that Don’t Suck
- 06: Through an Open Window
- 05: RadioShanty
- 05: The Mystery of Dr. Better
- 04: My Favorite Super Bowl Commercials
- 04: Where I Get My Stock Photos
- 04: Facebook Despression
- 04: Music
- 04: Telling People’s Stories
- 04: And so the LOL’s Continue
- 03: Ad-doesn’t-Block Plus Premium Elite Edition
- 03: Killing Your Friends when They Think You’re not Looking
- 02: A First
- 02: Magic Room
- 02: To Write, You Must Read
- 01: Harry’s: Get a Good Shave Without Nicking Your Wallet
January 2015
- 30: How I Solved Related Posts not Showing when Running WordPress, JetPack, and Nginx
- 30: Learn to Code as Early as You Can!
- 28: If I Could Change Just One Thing
- 27: Vivaldi – A New Browser for our Friends
- 27: Favorite Thing to This Day
- 26: The Workforce in 2030
- 26: On the Bus in the Fog Unlike a Dog on a Log in a Bog with Nog
- 26: Taking Notes
- 26: Positioning for the Journey to Dreamland
- 26: Hunting the Hunter: Trying to Take a Photo of my Cat
- 25: Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Put You Down. Sometimes.
- 24: How to Set up Automatic WordPress Blog Post Scheduling with IFT.TT, and Buffer
- 24: Ghostly Sharing to Twitter from Jetpack’s Publicize Plugin
- 21: There Are Some Things Money Can’t Buy. For Everything Else, There’s a Cat in a Box.
- 20: Extending My Writing Goals to Photography
- 19: My First Smartphone
- 13: Running Out of Coffee (Creamer)
- 12: Being S.M.A.R.T about Blogging Goals for the New Year
- 11: Analytics
- 11: New About Page
- 10: Finding a Short Domain Based on a Name is Harder Than Ever
- 10: Half-Way There
- 08: The Space in Which I Craft
- 07: Why I Write
- 06: You Really Just Would not Understand!
- 01: Poor Planning on Your Part Does not Necessarily Constitute an Emergency on Mine
- 01: Disabling Comments on Existing Posts After Disabling Comments Site-Wide with WordPress