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Why I use a static site generator (and store all my content in a public Git repo)
Does Twitter want to win?
Implementing blog theme bells and whistles in Hugo: pagination, pages, related posts, and tag lists
Marketing automation and lead nurturing: creating sales-ready leads
Why is General Electric starting an app store?
Transforming personalization from creepy to cool
Your prospect is machines
Why branding doesn't matter (just kidding)
Re-positioning digital marketing
Don't worry about them
Why didn't Google Here work out?
Does progressive profiling work?
Marketing analysts and technologists have bigger roles to play
What is marketing?
About 'Rogue IT'
Key questions to answer when re-writing your site's content
Engaging your subconscious
Great experimental marketing sites
Twitter's got it right?
Marquess, a bash script that makes it easy to use PrinceXML for templated collateral generation
Content doesn't have to expire, but if it does, try to match the user's intent
Responsive diagrams and photos
Why does enterprise software look so bad?
Accepting error to make less error
Twitter marketing
Why don't people trust algorithms?
Styles of translating Ancient Greek
Entertaining yourself is a key part of learning
Writing good email copy
Workout journal formatting
Workout strategies for new parents and other busy people
Simplify, or your users will do it for you
A bundle of routines
Buying stamps is painful, or, philately will get you nowhere
Bringing an old project (Kitify) back to life
Young warrior
Historicism and psychohistory
Mortimer
Migrating a blog (yes, this one!) from Wordpress to Hugo
Using Agile concepts to manage Marketing work
Carl Linnaeus
Marketing as craft
Help your customers unsubscribe
Testing fast enough
How to avoid running online advertising experiments
5 web marketing tips for your new business
Implementing Marketo progressive profiling in Javascript
Emotional laziness and the discomfort of working on important problems
Important things can be difficult to measure (but we should still try)
Why isn't mesh networking more popular?
I would pay for Twitter. In fact, I would prefer to pay for Twitter.
Enthusiasm and criticism
Revenue marketing and content marketing are two sides of the same coin
Ways of communicating
Structure without content
Why I care about numbers
Tim, a simple Arduino-based timer
Some cool new technologies
Hacking is the skill of...?
Why is major marketing collateral still published as PDFs?
I can't believe how painful it is to order business cards
The death and life of great American offices
The 1-bit interface
The startup as a game
The Manhattan Bridge
Leapfrogging, or why I'm getting rid of my to-do lists
What do you get when you buy through a third party?
How to write marketing copy quickly
Handshake Con
Choose constraints wisely
Building Kitify, my first modern web app (in Rails), Part 3
Working and the information problem
Grape bread 2
Fixing your own laptop, and the importance of do-it-yourself to society
Building Kitify, my first modern web app (in Rails), Part 2
A flight deck with a million gauges
Visas
Building Kitify, my first modern web app (in Rails)
A Ulam (prime number spiral) quilt
Some thoughts on reading "The Lean Startup"
Thing stories
Making springs
Joke file
Ricotta, crackers and zucchini ribbons
Some observations on hackerspaces after reading Hackerspaces: The Beginning
Pepper soup and oysters
Osso buco
Make your own tea towels
The hackerspace design patterns book
Competitive advantage and handwritten powerpoint slides
What motivates content creators?
The cloud for physical objects?
Making things maker-friendly
We are our own novels
Organic systems
Are avocadoes "vegan eggs"?
The original bartender's guide, some of which is in verse
What I learned at my first Open Hardware Summit
Designing a 3D printer kit: Packaging
Rose, orange blossom, and elderflower marshmallows
Designing a 3D printer kit: Sourcing parts
Measuring creativity
Designing a 3D printer kit: Introduction
Jumpstarting a car
Designing your own business cards with Inkscape
FedExing donuffins cross-country
Making cast-resin 3D printer parts
Understanding the differences between pasta shapes, or why it's "fettucine alfredo"
Why bother with Marshall McLuhan?
Your sketchbook, your portfolio
Introducing the "donuffin"... a donut-muffin hybrid. With beets!
Where is open source 3D printing going?
Oil-poached turbot
Building a vacuum forming machine
Why I dropped Pligg for Drupal's Drigg
What's the difference between curly and flat parsley?
"It was a nice party anyway": the wonderful history of the Whole Earth Catalog
Mushroom soup
Peach cobbler
Electron pushers
What does it mean to "do what comes naturally"?
How to roll pasta dough with a rolling pin
Catering 2
Better living through adjectives
Miniature carrot soufflés
Thinking more about the open source business plan idea
Virtual grocery shopping
Homemade beet ravioli
Relaunching a web app, listje
How to serve independent creatives?
Can you open source a business plan?
Printing a replacement part... on your printer
Leftover magic
Guinness-flavored marshmallows
Mussels steamed in white wine and adventures with saffron
A stock market for cocktails
Thinking more about subconscious info processing
Smörgåsbord!
Fear of marketing
Why read challenging books?
Terrine
Banana cardamom ice cream with peanut brittle and raspberries
Catering
Tomato tarte tatin
Dealing with Cauliflower
Breakfast
Pear-in-a-bottle
The difference between caramel, butterscotch, and toffee
Beer me, part 4
What is a pomelo?
Polymers are magic
Pâté with balsamic onions, olive oil ice cream and polenta cake, carrot ginger soup with spheres, trout meuniere
Eating sprouted potatoes is fine, and eating eggplant is like smoking
White Russian ice cream and blueberry coffee cake, trout meuniere, carrot-ginger/potato-leek harlequin soup, and other things
Making fondant
Building a Desktop Fabricator (3D Printer), Update
The Pepsi Challenge
Coconut cake with hibiscus sauce, salad with pomegranate seeds, salmon and mashed potatoes, duxelles puff pastry
Beet and carrot salad, green tea cheesecake, and roasted chicken
Building a desktop fabricator (3D Printer), Day 5
Building a desktop fabricator (3D Printer), Day 4
Building a desktop fabricator (3D Printer), Day 3
Building a desktop fabricator (3D Printer), Day 2
Building a desktop fabricator (3D Printer), Day 1
The Four Seasons' pastry kitchen
Asparagus soup, panade and a pear-frangipane tart
Beer me, part 3
Rosemary-lemon chicken, cheese plate with homemade crackers and jams, and tres leches cake
Antipasti, pizza and snow pudding
Rabelais' quarter hour
Hillbilly Gatorade
Philly farm tour
Apple tarte tatin, lamb stew and stuffed peppers
Understanding flour
Dinner for seven
Radish risotto, chicken paillard, cardamom carrots
Borscht, scallops and succotash, and gingerbread trifle
Can explosives tenderize a steak?
Inter allia
Avocado soup, lamb and figs, and a rice fiasco
Tuna, beans and rice, and cilantro salad
Beer me, part 2
Note on turkey
Hot dog economics
Free speech
What is a scallop?
Cast iron seasoning
Coke
Coconuts
Building a cheese plate
Marshmallows
The maple bacon latte
Chai and breakfast
Gravlax, cucumber jelly, and crackers
Eight courses
Poulet a la fermiere and port sabayon with strawberries
Sushi
Banana and kiwi pudding
Tarragon chicken, parsnips and carrots, and asparagus
Miniature strawberry country cakes
Braised short ribs, beet chocolate cake, and salad with flowers
Harlequin pepper soup, fried tomatillos, fajitas, jicama and ice cream
Smoke points
Beer me
Beet cakes
Blue cheese soufflé
Ice cream!
Skirt steak, zucchini and pepper sandwiches
Ben's Chili Bowl
Julia Child's kitchen
Vinegar's mom
Pork with mango chutney
Baking soda vs. baking powder
Breadcrumb types
Lemonade
Lemon pudding with basil custard sauce
Spaghetti and meatballs
Grape bread
Burgers and fries
Reading Popper and Boulud
Chocolate chip cookies
Lentil cookies
Two courses
Spaetzle stroganoff
Beet salad, fried Chicken etc., polenta cake
Come fry with me
Experimenting with mousses
Measuring things
The tiger and the goat
Decoding a Parmesan rind
Raita-marinated salmon, and succotash
Puff pastry tarts, and experimenting with glazes
Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic
Braised short ribs, polenta and collard Greens
Tilapia
Malta?
A Graph about cake
Apple tarte tatin
Beetiness
Organizing the refrigerator
Watermelon curry and mustard-glazed salmon
Challah
An Anti-Congress?
Trying to understand "Dutch-process" cocoa
Caramel and chocolate pear cake, and a cauliflower curry
Peppers
Miniature cheesecakes
Lasagna, chard, dal
Empanadas
The mayonnaise experiment
Honey mayonnaise?
Term limits for Congresspeople
Grasshopper tacos
Thanksgiving on British Airways
Dinner with celery root
Macaroni and cheese
Butternut squash curry
Tomatoes and onions
First post
Practical idealism
Only the paranoid survive
Archetypes and oblivion
The real test of understanding
Accountability vs. bureaucracy
Managing process vs. people
More notes about management
The autodidactic corporation
Indicting Worldcom
Reassurance letters
The revolutionaries
After reading books about the founding of Intel