Year: 2020

• Justice

What did you expect would happen?

Year: 2019

• Playlists

Playlist: Best of Foo Fighters

• Tutorials

How to create local TLS certificates for development on macOS

• Software

Using GNU command line tools in macOS instead of FreeBSD tools

• Software

Running aws-vault in macOS with local Docker containers

• Tech Life

Converting iMessage Stickers, Animoji, and Memoji to Slackmoji (Slack Emoji)

• Playlists

Playlist: Best of P.O.D.

Year: 2018

• Engineering for Site Reliability

Understanding Trust in Your Infrastructure

• Tech Industry

The Hiring Process, Part I

• Projects and Code

Serving Bandwidth-Friendly Video with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #8

• Engineering for Site Reliability

Creating Smaller Docker Containers for Your Apps

• Tech Industry

Dear Nintendo, Part II

• Projects and Code

PHP, DOMDocument, XPath 1.0, Case-Insensitivity, and Performance

Year: 2017

• Projects and Code

A Refresh of the SimplePie Logo

• Projects and Code

SimplePie is back in development!

• Reviews

Business Review: Del Sol Auto Sales

Year: 2016

• Tech Industry

Dear Nintendo…

• Politics

Thoughts on Gun Ownership

• Politics

Stupid, Short-Term Self-Interest

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #7

Year: 2015

• Politics

A View of the Current Presidential Candidates by a Political Moderate

• Politics

Please support #Lessig2016 and the Citizen Equality Act of 2017

• Law

Gender-based restrictions on the legal contract known as “marriage” have been removed per the Supreme Court of the United States

• Family Life

I’m bad at pet names

• Tech Life

I just don’t get it

• Death

Rest in Peace, Jonathan Troiano

Year: 2014

• Apple

Apple’s October 2014 Product Announcement

• Tech Life

Dear Lockitron

• Privacy and Security

If your website supports passwords, please stop sucking at it

• Projects and Code

Easily SSH into Amazon EC2 instances using the Name tag

• Video Games

Games of the Year, 2013

Year: 2013

• Privacy and Security

FISA, The NSA, PRISM and Edward Snowden

• Privacy and Security

Password security is important. Start treating it like it is.

• Apple

Apple’s 2013 iPad Announcement

• Apple

My experience with iOS 7

• Apple

Apple’s Fall 2013 Product Announcement

• Tech Industry

Stephen Elop to become the next Microsoft CEO? I’d buy it.

• Projects and Code

Uploading web files to a new Amazon EC2 instance

• Privacy and Security

Things I learned about how websites manage passwords

• Privacy and Security

Breaking my bad password habits with 1Password, Authy, OAuth and OpenID

• Health

Running

• Tech Industry

The Microsoft Ecosystem

• Tutorials

Converting MKV files to MP4, using Mac OS X, for playback on iPad, Apple TV, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Roku and other players

• Tutorials

Converting Blu-ray and DVD movies to MP4, using Mac OS X, for playback on iPad, Apple TV, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Roku and other players

• Tech Industry

H.265 has been approved

• Death

Aaron Swartz

Year: 2012

• Software

My favorite Mac apps: Music and Video Apps

• Software

My favorite Mac apps: Day-to-day Apps

• Apple

In response to ”DEAR APPLE: I'm Leaving You”

• For Funsies

Current status

• Tech Industry

App Judgment and sloppy reporting

• Design

The Measurement of ‘Nice’

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #6

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #5

• Apple

iPhone 5

• Apple

The New iPhone

• Design

Dieter Rams on Creative Engineers

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #4

• Politics

SOPA/PIPA

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #3

• Life Lessons

Life Lesson: You can do anything you put your mind to, even if it’s “I can't.”

• Life Lessons

Introduction to “Life Lessons”

Year: 2011

• Tech Life

Louis C.K. and a word about torrenting

• Tech Industry

RIM: Just cut your losses and start afresh

• Politics

Cult of Ignorance

• Tech Industry

Amazon Web Services is hiring PHP developers

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #2

• Projects and Code

Awesome new features coming in PHP 5.4

• Clueless Recruiters

How to make technical professionals not hate your guts: A guide for technical recruiters

• Clueless Recruiters

Clueless Recruiters

• Tech Life

iPhone 4S and Siri

• Law

Professional Reasoning and Empirical Data

• Tech Industry

Netflix: Crazy or Genius?

• Tech Industry

Customer culture

• Tech Industry

Iranian cyber-terrorism, online security, and you!

• Apple

Skating to where the puck will be

• Apple

Homerun after homerun after homerun

• Apple

Comparing the HP TouchPad to the iPad 2

• Tech Industry

The Hiring Process, Part I: What I Look For in a CV/Résumé

• Tutorials

Remove Comcast/Xfinity start page from Firefox (Mac)

• Apple

3D iPad? I don't believe it.

• For Funsies

The Gaga Saga

• Tech Industry

Lessons I've learned from running a startup

• Clueless Recruiters

Death to Recruiters

• Projects and Code

Searching through the AWS SDK for PHP documentation

• Tutorials

Creating iPhone ringtones with iTunes and QuickTime

• Family Life

Nothing Lasts Forever

• Software

Import Delicious/Pinboard Bookmarks Into Spotlight for Mac OS X

• Personal

2011 Resolutions

Year: 2010

• Tech Industry

Dear Oracle, Get a Clue

• Projects and Code

CloudFusion has become the official AWS SDK for PHP!

• Projects and Code

PHP Coding Standards

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Review: The Last Airbender

• Family Life

The Great Buzz Cut of 2010

• Family Life

The Boy™ turns 5!

• Family Life

Dog Vomit

• Family Life

Observations of a 4-year-old

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Review: Avatar

Year: 2009

• Browsers

WebKit 3D CSS Transforms

• Projects and Code

Installing PHP 5.3 with mysqlnd on Mac OS X with MacPorts

• Software

Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VirtualBox on Mac OS X

• Family Life

Those kids and their Wiis

• Projects and Code

Introducing DOMBuilder

• Software

Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X

Year: 2008

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 2.0 is finally here!

• Tech Life

Loving my new iPhone 3G!

• Projects and Code

New Tarzan pre-release is available!

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 2

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

• Personal

Visiting Chicago

• Projects and Code

Installing FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP in Fedora 8 running on Amazon EC2

• Projects and Code

Yahoo! Messenger redesign is live!

• Tech Life

My thoughts on Twitter

• Politics

Obama ‘08

• Tech Industry

iTunes Movie Rentals, DRM, and The Big Problem™

• Tech Industry

Why do you love coming back to a sales person?

Year: 2007

• Software

Hide a Boot Camp NTFS Volume (Drive) under Tiger or Leopard

• Tech Industry

I support the Writer's Guild of America

• Tech Life

People-Centric Web

• For Funsies

Eight things you may or may not know about me

• Tech Life

Proof that the youth are revolting

• Tech Life

Obsessive Compulsive

• Tech Industry

Staying Relevant

• Personal

Nine Months

Year: 2006

• Software

Google Toolbar Awesomeness!

• Projects and Code

SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress

• Projects and Code

SimplePie Beta 2 is now available!

• Tutorials

The proper way to blow your nose

• Browsers

CSS's text-shadow property in Firefox 2?

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Makers Just Don't Get It

• Projects and Code

We need your feeds!

• Health

Vasecto-who?

• Browsers

Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 (Build 5335.5)

• Projects and Code

TinyMCE Issue

• Projects and Code

document.createTextNode and entities

• Browsers

Camino has left the building

• For Funsies

YouTube: Travis Barker - Snare Drum Solo

• Projects and Code

Awesome view-source trick for JavaScript developers

• Tech Industry

Okay, some people are seriously retarded

• Browsers

Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 Standalone is available

• Projects and Code

SimplePie 1.0 Preview Release is now available!

• Projects and Code

SimplePie's Triumphant Return!

Year: 2005

• Personal

And the “Best Wife in the World” award goes to...

• For Funsies

Free Gmail Invites

• Family Life

Happy Birthday Julianna Grace!

• Browsers

Firefox 1.5, Now Available

• Tech Life

I've Succumbed to the Dark Side

• Tech Life

Best Wife Ever

• Personal

The Armpit of California

• Website

Feed for Skyzyx: Downloads

• Website

Skyzyx: Downloads

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

The End of the CD

• For Funsies

How To Keep A Healthy Level of Insanity

• Website

Skyzyx.com Is Temporarily Down

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Reviews 2005

• Tech Life

Zeldman in 1996

• Browsers

Fix: QuickTime Playing Flash Files in my Browser

• Design

Status Icon Sets: Flat, Glass, and Shadow

• Projects and Code

Draggable Lists

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

iCal TV Show Schedules

• Website

My Move To Services

• Design

Windows Vista Fonts

• Website

Welcome to Wordpress!

• Family Life

Is Today The Day? It Is!

• Apple

Apple's NeXT Step: Mac OS X86™

• For Funsies

Which Guru Are You?

• Apple

Tiger Revisited: A Month Into It

• Software

Sweet Little Utility: BluePhoneElite

• Apple

Mac OS X: A Look Back

• For Funsies

YAM: Yet Another Meme

• Family Life

Matthew Madness!

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

American Idol 2005

• Software

iCal Widget

• For Funsies

*Pwang* I've Been Batoned

• Apple

Minor iTunes 4.8 Features

• Tech Life

TiVo/iTunes Media Center System

• Apple

Thoughts on Mac OS X 10.4

• Software

Switching to Apple Mail/Safari

• Projects and Code

Tarzan Incomplete Pre-Release Nightly Beta

• Personal

Good News, Bad News

• Projects and Code

Sneak Peek

• Personal

What's New?

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 1.1 Now Available!

• For Funsies

Mathematical Proof That Girls Are Evil

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

What “Alias” Is Missing This Season

• Tech Life

The Coolness That Is TiVo

• Software

Wireless Printing from Mac OS X to Windows XP

• Apple

Mac OS X 10.3.8 Is Now Available!

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 1.0.1 Now Available!

• For Funsies

Which Napoleon Dynamite Character Are You?

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 1.0 Is Now Available!

• Projects and Code

Tarzan 1.0 RC2 Now Available!

• Projects and Code

Localizing Tarzan and AWS 4.0

• Projects and Code

Introducing Tarzan

• For Funsies

Guys Rules

• Projects and Code

SimplePie 0.96 Now Available!

• Apple

Do Not Eat iPod shuffle

• Browsers

Conditional Comments in Standalone Internet Explorer

• Family Life

Happiness Is...

Year: 2004

• Software

Remove Spyware and Adware

• Personal

God Came Near

• Projects and Code

Using Del.icio.us Feeds With SimplePie

• Family Life

Happy Birthday, Emily Ann Boydston

• Projects and Code

SimplePie Beta Testing

• For Funsies

Screen Grab Confab

• Family Life

Our First Christmas Tree

• Projects and Code

Simple PHP Gallery 1.1

• Tech Life

I Got iBalls… I mean iSight

• Tech Life

iTunes Remote Control?

• Software

Firefox Mirrors

• Software

Firefox Optimized for G4/G5

• Software

Standalone Internet Explorer and Hosting

• For Funsies

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

• Projects and Code

SimplePie 0.95

• For Funsies

Clientcopia

• Projects and Code

A New License

• Family Life

Little Joys

• Projects and Code

It Took Me Long Enough...

• Projects and Code

SimplePie... Mmmm, Yummy!

• Browsers

One Million and Counting...

• Tech Life

What's New?

• Projects and Code

“Wait, Didn't He Just...?”

• Website

Five Hundred Thousand

• Projects and Code

I Need Your Help!

• Projects and Code

Newer-er. Better-er. Simpler-er.

• Projects and Code

The Battle of Dunstan vs. Andrei vs. Mark

• Projects and Code

Newer. Better. Simpler.

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Reviews 2004

• For Funsies

Which OS Are You?

• Software

Windows XP SP2 and Mac OS X 10.3.5

• Projects and Code

The Ultrafast SimplePie 0.9 Is Now Available!

• Website

Current Stats

• Tech Industry

Standards, Invalidation, and Missing the Point

• Software

RealNetworks and the FairPlay DRM

• Browsers

Letting Go of Legacy Code

• Software

Good IM, RSS, and FTP Software

• Personal

Psychos Need Not Apply

• Projects and Code

SimplePie... Yummy!

• Tech Life

My Apple Store Experience

• Projects and Code

Lots of Little Things

• Apple

Growwwwwl...

• Website

WML/WAP Feed for Cell Phones

• Tech Life

Haiku, Gmail, and Web Standards

• Website

Upgrade to Movable Type 3.0

• Tech Life

What's New?

• Software

OpenOffice.org, Mac OS X, and X11

• Projects and Code

Re-learning Macs

• Apple

PowerBook Goodness!

• Politics

The Ant and the Grasshopper

• Death

RIP: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004

• Tech Life

Dead Hard Drive

• Browsers

Hotmail blocking Firefox?

• Browsers

Firefox: Fixing the startup page

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

American Idol: They Got Rid of Latoya?!

• Website

Domain Name Registry of America Scam

• Website

Whitespace Is Improving

• Browsers

Using Safari? Lucky You.

• Personal

Ryan: Slacker No More

• Website

Creative Unknowns

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Re: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music

• Projects and Code

Blocker and Comment Spam

• Tech Life

Pretty Freakin' Fast!

• Website

Tweakin' Styles

• Web Standards

Suggesting Improvements to Blockbuster

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Browsers

Kill “No Right Click” Scripts

• Tech Industry

Bye, Bye, BuyMusic.com

• Projects and Code

Blocker 1.3 Revision 2

• Politics

Pro-Choice

• Apple

iPod Goodness

• Projects and Code

They're Out!

• Projects and Code

Feed Parser and Blocker Updates

• Personal

100 Miles an Hour with My Hair on Fire!

• Web Standards

Lockergnome Regresses

• Projects and Code

ALA Favelet

• Browsers

Multiple Internet Explorers Revisited

• Personal

A Not-So-Idle Wednesday

• Personal

Another Idle Tuesday

• Website

Jumping Ship

• Website

All Automated, All The Time

• Website

Redesign In Progress

• Website

RSS/Atom Feed Changes

• Website

Tweaking My RSS/Atom Feed Reader

• Projects and Code

Blocking Spambots

• Reading

Extensibly Extensible

• Software

37 Signal's Basecamp™ Is Cool!

• Browsers

The Browser Wars

• Software

The Power of Feedback

• Projects and Code

SpamMaster Joe

• Tech Industry

Corporate-Speak

• Browsers

Fixing Internet Explorer

• For Funsies

Lord of the Rings Name Translator

• Reading

New (To Me) Blogs and RSS/Atom Support

• Apple

Apple+HP: Stunning The World

• Website

Kindly Reload

• For Funsies

One DIV To Size Them All...

• Web Standards

Support the Standards or the Browser?

• Website

Websites of 2003

• Website

Woo-Hoo!

Year: 2003

• Website

Movable Type Problems

• Software

Winamp 5, Wasabi, and the Future

• Personal

Christmastime Is Here...

• Website

Weird IE Rendering Bug Fixed

• Browsers

LIR And Bug Fixes for IE5/Win

• Website

Lots of RSS-Related Changes

• Interesting People

Britney Is So Freaking Hot!

• Reading

A Second Voice

• Website

Welcome WaSP Buzzers!

• Video Games

Broken Nintendo GameCube™

• For Funsies

Homeland Security Rating Scale

• Website

Interesting Stuff

• Personal

My Stapler! No Touchie!

• Browsers

View Your Site on OSX and Safari

• Reading

Better Living Through Web Standards

• Software

Winamp 5 Skins

• Personal

What In The World Is “Skyzyx”?

• Website

New CSS Resources

• Browsers

Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer

• Politics

Rock The Vote

• Projects and Code

Spam Blocking

• Tech Life

Freakin' DNS and TCP/IP...

• Website

Fewer Posts

• Reading

Links From Around

• Software

Winamp 5 Beta

• Apple

iTunes for Windows

• Browsers

Browsers That Don't Suck

• Politics

Cah-Lee-Foh-Nee-Ahh

• Website

Acronym MT Plug-in

• Browsers

Eolas, Eolas, Eolas...

• Website

Blogs + RSS

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Slickly Packaged Garbage

• Tech Life

To Infinity And Beyond!

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Season Premiere of Alias

• For Funsies

Will Code HTML For Food

• Website

Suck-O-Spam

• For Funsies

Ye Scurvy Dogs!

• Projects and Code

Subtle Changes And My Calendar

• For Funsies

Snoop Dogg Shizzolator

• Web Standards

LIR vs FIR

• Personal

Sickness

• Projects and Code

Which is Kosher?

• Family Life

Simple Pleasures

• Design

Pirated Sites

• Website

My Portfolio and Sitemap

• Website

Luposlipaphobia

• Website

A New Blog?

• Tech Life

The Latest Goings-On

• Website

Spoofing, Spamming, and Formmail

• Web Standards

Building Better Websites

• Apple

What If Jobs Croaks?

• Interesting People

Gemal's Gettin' Hitched!

• Website

Redesign Complete

• Website

Redesign In Progress

• Website

Time For A Redesign?

• Website

Welcome Movable Type!

• Website

“Play By The Rules” Is A Hit!

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Movie Reviews 2003

• Design

ReleaseOne™

• Web Standards

A Disagreement Perhaps?

• Browsers

Mozilla SeaMonkey vs Mozilla Firebird™

• Web Standards

Play By The Rules

• Tech Life

Netscape's First Mistake

• Tech Life

A Moment of Silence...

• Privacy and Security

Another Hole Plugged

• Interesting People

A Virgin No More

• Tech Life

The Internet Is Retarded

• Browsers

The Future Is Here

• Website

Refer 2.01

• Browsers

New Mozilla Build and the PowerMac G5

• Website

In Search of Skyzyx...

• Apple

What's In The Box? The PowerPC 970 G5

• Browsers

Mozilla 1.4rc2 Is Available

• Tech Life

OpenBeOS Is Moving Right Along

• Browsers

Internet Explorer for Mac Is Dead

• Tech Life

Only 99.29% of Websites Are Obsolete

• For Funsies

Twenty Cows and a Chicken

• Projects and Code

Blogs and Scripts and Code, Oh My!

• Browsers

Nearing Mozilla 1.4rc2

• Browsers

Another Internet Explorer “Feature”

• Death

I See Dead People

• Personal

Financial Aid Application

• Music, Movies, TV Shows

Linkin Park: Meteora Tracks

• Website

Link To Me!

• Website

New RSS Junk

• Website

Personal Dreck and RSS Feeds

• Browsers

Opera 7.11 Bug

• For Funsies

Making Peace with MILFs?

• Reading

Designing With Web Standards

• Browsers

AOL will continue using Internet Explorer

• Website

More Stuff in Place

• Tech Life

XHTML 2 And You!

• Web Standards

Screw Compliance?

• Browsers

Mozilla's Recent Releases

• Video Games

Video Game Updates

• Website

More Updates

• Web Standards

The Web Standards Project, Animated GIF

• Browsers

A New Path For Mozilla

• Video Games

Zelda: Wind Waker and Final Fantasy Tactics

• Browsers

Standards-Compliant Browsers

• Politics

You've got to be kidding me!

• Politics

War with Iraq

• Website

Oxygen 2003, Beta 2

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Ryan Parman

is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, , is where he writes about ideas longer than . Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.