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  • Enhance your mobile site with brow.si

    Enhance your mobile site with brow.si

    Brow.si is a free website add-on that enhances your mobile site by making it act a bit more native and increase engagement with readers. When viewed on a mobile browser, a website that enables the brow.si add-on will have a flyout bar that contains buttons for saving the article via Pocket or Readability and sharing…

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  • Day 1

    Day 1

    I’m setting 30-day challenges this month. Today is day 1. The challenges I chose are meant to help me improve my writing and fitness: Run at least 5 kilometers every day Blog every day To start the month, I just finished a 21K run today, my first long run for a long time. One thing…

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  • Habits

    “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffett

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  • Taking on 30-day challenges

    Thirty days are “just about the right time to add a new habit or subtract a habit,” Google engineer Matt Cutts said in his TED talk in 2011. “If you really want something badly enough, you can do anything in 30 days,” he said. By taking on his 30-day challenges, Cutts said he found that…

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  • Learning to build mobile sites, from WAP to JQuery Mobile

    Learning to build mobile sites, from WAP to JQuery Mobile

    About ten years ago, I built a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) mobile news site. This was at a time when the cellphone to aspire for was the Nokia 7110, a slider phone made even cooler when a similar device was used in the Matrix movie. At that time, the Sun.Star website signed a content agreement…

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