Pete has some good advice for writing a blog that lasts: Keep Posting.
I should post more, but I’m frequently paralysed by choice. I’m a software dev manager, so I’m interested in down-in-the-mud-coding, software quality, personal and team productivity, agile techniques, web analytics, business value and return on investme...
It used to be that when I found an article that was too long to read there and then, I would add it to delicious, tag it as ‘readme’, and hope that one day I would get around to it.
These days I just click my Kindlebility bookmarklet and read the article next time I’m on the bus or train, but...
In my attempts to find better ways of getting long-form content onto my Kindle to read offline, I’ve mainly been using two tools: Instapaper and the Later On Kindle Chrome extension.
Instapaper has great formatting, and repeated delivery works like a new iss...
Nathan and Tim both made a sensible comment on my “Readme” post – Instapaper supports daily delivery of unread articles directly to a kindle – use that!
This is a great idea; I’ve started using it and it works very well.
But this means that I’m using Google Reader to do my aggregation, and...
I got a Kindle for Christmas, and I subscribe to Hacker Monthly. HM is provided in PDF, epub and .mobi – the Kindle can read .mobi file natively, so when the latest HM arrived today I was keen to try it out.
A link to the latest download is delivered by email, so the normal workflow for viewing the PDF is like this:
receive email
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