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Chris Bracco

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• 04 . 30 . 2013

  How I keep my iPhone 5 in order

  To appease my irrational desires for order and efficiency, I came up with a simple method for arranging the apps and notifications on my phone so I can spend less time poking glass and more time being a human.

• 04 . 08 . 2013

  Feed reader blues

  It’s wonderful to have an endless supply of content available to me whenever I want it, right? RIGHT?

• 03 . 14 . 2013

  My essential Mac OSX apps

  I downloaded way too many OSX apps in 2012. In an attempt to unclutter my machines, I axed a bunch of them. This post is a list of the survivors.

• 03 . 06 . 2013

  SSH key pair authentication know-how and management

  My SSH key situation was becoming a jumbled nightmare, and I had no idea how to untangle myself. I did some researching and found a management strategy that works for me. Maybe it will work for you, too.

• 02 . 26 . 2013

  Instant text editor in your browser

  Copy and paste this one line of code into the address bar of your browser, and get an instant distraction-free text editor

• 02 . 21 . 2013

  How I set up my Linode VPS server (an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS build with a LEMP stack)

  While configuring my VPS server from scratch, I kept detailed notes that I could reference later on if I ever ran into issues or had to start over. This article is a "how-to" writeup of those notes.

• 02 . 15 . 2013

  Quickly create animated GIFs from screencasts in Mac OSX

  How I used three simple apps on Mac OSX to convert short screencasts into shareable animated GIFs.

• 02 . 13 . 2013

  Protip: quick-check responsive layouts for smaller devices with Google Chrome's vertical inspector

  Press Cmd+I to open the inspector, click and hold the button on the bottom left to switch the view to vertical, and resize to taste.

• 02 . 11 . 2013

  How to use curly quotes on Mac OS and Windows

  For years I have been including straight quotes in my writing, blissfully unaware that I was doing it all wrong.

• 02 . 10 . 2013

  Farewell, shared hosting.

  After venting my frustrations and overcoming a mean inferiority complex, I abandoned my comfortable WordPress bubble to pursue a new direction with my website.