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On This Day...

• 2011: Rails experiences: Building an interactive tutorial — One of the risks for this Rails project that I’m working on is that new users won’t have enough ramp-up [...]
• 2010: Learning Android development by hacking MobileOrg — I spent most of Saturday plunging into Android development, starting from the Hello World and Notepad tutorials. It was lots [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending Nov 29, 2009 (and website redesign!) — If you’re reading this in your feed reader, check out my new site design at http://sachachua.com! =)  It’s amazing what [...]
• 2009: WordPress tweak: Proper navigation for date.php — I can’t be the only person who’s ever wanted proper navigation on WordPress date.php archive pages. By this, I mean [...]
• 2009: Process: How to ask communities for help — Reaching out to communities can be a powerful way to find talent or resources. Your personal network may take a [...]
• 2008: Notes from Rahaf Harfoush’s talk on the use of social media in Obama’s campaign — Collaborated on Grown Up Digital. Was working on chapter about politics when she was convinced to join campaign. Inspired by [...]
• 2008: More random notes from last night’s conversation — Spam haiku – Jeff has the book Richard Florida – I hadn’t recognized the name, but I remember reading The Rise [...]
• 2007: With five years of blog posts, there’s a lot to discover — Okay, I have a seriously souped-up blog now. Enjoy the random posts and the retrospectives on the WordPress interface to this blog. [...]
• 2007: Prying eyes privacy — Ted Roden uses ROT13 to protect his secrets from prying eyes, which comes in pretty handy when you’re keeping gift lists [...]
• 2006: Hot chocolate and happiness — Thanks again to all those whose hot-chocolate thoughts and conversations reminded me that the world is actually quite a wonderful place, even [...]
• 2005: Writing — Wow. Knowing that my writing requirements are spread out over a number of days and that I’m making steady progress on [...]
• 2004: Tired — Just finished the last of my homework for the day. We’re going at twice the speed of our previous classes, and [...]
• 2004: LifeHacks: Instant messaging — Along those lines, I will not respond to “Hi”, “Good evening”, or similar messages over instant messaging. If you have a [...]
• 2004: Lifehacks: Writing — I should interleave insight-finding with my studies so that my poor brain can take a rest every so often. ;) I [...]
• 2004: Stories — Screw duplication. <laugh> If I have to repeat my stories for my family, it’ll still be worth it.
• 2004: Lifehacks: talking versus writing — I spend two hours every day talking to my mom and Dominique over http://www.skype.com . I’ve come to look forward to [...]
• 2004: PM, channel 12 20:18 — Japan has a magician game show. Imagine that. Does wonders for my concentration, really… <laugh>