Brooklyn, New York
A creative web developer from Brooklyn.
Areas of Expertise:
- Web 2.0
- social web apps
- PHP
- web app security
- design
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- writing
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Chris blogs at:
http://shiflett.org/blog
April 26 2012
A few months ago, I wrote about learning JavaScript. I'm already pretty comfortable with the language, and although I did break the chain, I'm happy to report that I'm still at it. Never stop learning, right? In case it's helpful to others, I thought … read moreMarch 27 2012
Brooklyn Beta is becoming more than a conference. It's still a conference, too, and although I never did recap last year's conference like I wanted to, I did collect a bunch of posts, photos, and videos on Gimme Bar. Also, Nate Bolt and Captain & … read moreMarch 23 2012
I just read a post by Daniel Howells about these two stories on Hacker News: Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis Codename: Obtvse Before I make my small point, let me give you the quick synopsis. Briefly, Dustin Curtis made his own blogg… read moreMarch 15 2012
I love blogs. A year ago today, I tried to start a sort of blogging revival. To my great surprise and delight, it kinda worked. For a while, I could find really interesting stuff to read every day by just browsing through my planet or #ideasofmarch on Tw… read moreMarch 05 2012
Hacker News exploded yesterday with news of GitHub being hacked. Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I began with GitHub's side of the story: A GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his p… read moreURL Encoding and Hashbang Hell
March 04 2012
Thanks to reader Steve Gricci, I have learned that BackTweets no longer exists, presumably because BackType was acquired by Twitter. (Regardless, why let the domain expire?) Until today, I have been using BackTweets for the "tweets" link at the top of ea… read moreFebruary 14 2012
If you're going to be in or around Boston tomorrow (Wednesday) night, I hope you'll join me at the Microsoft NERD Center, where I'll be giving my first talk in more than a year and a half. I'm going to be speaking about the science of human behavior a… read moreAlso find Chris on:
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