Super techie post, but if you’re using Angular, there’s finally a way to deliver fast-loading pages with great SEO. Use the great prerendering framework Scully in your build/deploy pipeline.
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HipHip Update
HipHip.app is off to a pretty good start, having just completed its 100th celebration video! So many fun graduation videos — it really is a pleasure, as a side-benefit of this project, to see so many terrific celebrations of people and important milestones. I began this project in late April. […]
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New HipHip Features: Celebration Video, “Keep It A Surprise” and More
HipHip will now automatically create a celebration video for your special day. You can also keep it a surprise until the big reveal!
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Graduating Daughter or Son? Create a Celebration Page!
I’ve created HipHip.app to help you gather memories and kudos from far-flung friends and family. It’s really easy to create a Group Card, and invite friends and family to sign. You get keepsake videos, testimonials and notes; HipHip does all the collection for you. Create a Card. All you do […]
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End-to-end SSL Provisioning to Azure with Intermediate Certificate, in PFX format
Provisioning a PFX key for Azure when you’ve got intermediate certificates involved.
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Celebration Videos Made Easy: Introducing HipHip.app
Have you ever tried to create a celebration video? They’re a hassle. This new site aims to make it a breeze, and is timed to support graduates of the Class of 2020.
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Programmatically Downloading Images from a Website
I have an old private blog from more than a decade ago that I’m shutting down. It was basically a semi-private journal, related to the construction of our home. It has a lot of useful photographs for me on it — i.e., in-progress construction shots, design inspiration shots, sketches and […]
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Introducing bigthanks.org
Late last week, a few of us started discussing ways we could help out local restaurants that are devastated by the COVID crisis. My friend Michelle came up with the brilliant idea to raise money to buy gratitude meals for first responders, to help express just some of our thanks for […]
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Build a Photo Booth for Your Next Party
Photo booths are expensive to rent. But if you have a camera and an old monitor lying around, you can make a much more versatile photo booth for less than $100!
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Alignvote 2019 Wrap-Up
Reflecting on the first phase of the Alignvote project, and issuing the call for volunteers or media partners if they’d like to bring Alignvote to their local election.
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