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Loving, Graceful Machines to Watch Your Chickens With

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: January 8, 2012
It’s gotten cold in Detroit again, and the chickens need the usual TLC: more food, more straw, heated water dispensers, and active heating inside the coop. In previous years we’ve used a single incandescent lightbulb to keep the coop at a hospitable temperature, but this year, we’re trying something different: we’ll use an infrared heat [...]
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Magento dev notes: conflicting extensions

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: March 1, 2011
Scenario: you’ve developed a magento extension, tested it on your development server for all these potential fringe cases, even brought in live customer data+code to test against… finally you deploy it to the live site, only to find that another (3rd party) extension uses the same dirty <rewrite>s as your code does.  Damn. What a great [...]
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Garden sensors: crow’s nest chicken coop thermometer

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: November 19, 2010
The chicken sensor is in full operation.
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Vote for FACT Social Justice Challenge projects!

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: October 12, 2010
The public voting period for this year’s FACT Social Justice Challenge ends this Friday!  Read about how to vote on projects — unfortunately it’s a bit complicated.  I should’ve written up a grant to improve their website. There are two interesting Detroit projects, as well as a few other cool ones, that I would like to [...]
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Typesetting the web

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: July 26, 2010
I’ve been reading the backlog of the Scribd team’s programming blog and am thoroughly amazed.  For some reason, I’d blindly assumed that flash was being used for a lot of this stuff, but they’ve been html5-ifying and css3-izing their game. Check http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator and http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/
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