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Byte Happens Interview I joined the Byte Happens podcast to talk about my journey through the tech industry, co-founding Gigwalk, building Headnote for law firm payments, and working at companies like AOL and Yahoo.

When exporting photos from a service like Flickr, perhaps after they've given notice that they're going to delete our photos if you don't subscribe to their paid plan, you might run into an issue where the photos you've downloaded have incorrect created a…

All Truthy and Falsy Javascript Values In Nodejs, every value has an associated boolean, true or false, value.

Google Forcing Nest Cameras Visual Indicator Light To Be On Received the following email from Google today...

Posting to Twitter with Python - Part Two: Posting Photos NOTE: This is part two of my posting to Twitter with Python tutorial.

Kalamazoo native is a force behind Gigwalk, a new cellphone app that puts iPhones users to work On May 15, 2011 I was interviewed By Al Jones on Gigwalk at The Kalamazoo Gazette Read Original Article The interiew is pasted below as well...

Doubleclick to open a file in VIM from OSX I use VIM for just about everything from note taking to coding to keeping track of my recipes.

Sign Into Gmail Without Signing Into Google Chrome Unfortunately, Google has made changes to Chrome since this blog post was posted which removed the options noted below.

209 Netfix Categories You Dont Know About Netflix is available just about everywhere and in every country.

Four Steps To Write An AppleScript to Gather ALL Windows on OSX I have no idea why, but there is no built-in way to gather ALL your desktop windows (from all applications) onto your main display window.

Easy Recipe For Making Chili at Home with Matt Crampton Cooking chili doesn't have to be a pain, use this easy recipie to make it at home.

Four Simple Steps To Post To Twitter Using Python NOTE: Don't miss the part 2 of this blog post: Posting Photos to Twitter with Python Automating Twitter can be an easy coding exercise once you have everything set up, but figuring out all the steps that T…

The Mega List Of Free Image Sites For Blogging Blogging is hard work, and finding good images to make your content compelling can be even harder.

When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands...

8th and Walton show interview with Matt Crampton On 10/26/2017 I did an interview with the 8th and Walton show talking about Gigwalk and the larger economy 8th and Walton show interview with Matt Crampton Download Interview Video File size: 84.9 MiB

CBS Pulse Interview with Matt Crampton On April 11, 2016, I published an article on CBS Pulse about on-demand workers and the Gig Economy.

CCTV Interview with Matt Crampton On Apr 12, 2013 I spoke with anchor Michelle Makori on CCTV on how PC companies will survive in a business environment shifting toward mobile devices.

Fortune Magazine Live Interview with Matt Crampton On May 5, 2015 I did an interview with Fortune Magazine talking about Gigwalk and the larger economy.

Fox Business interview on furloughed government workers with Matt Crampton On Oct. 15, 2013 I did an interview with Fox Business talking about online apps that furloughed government workers can use to make extra money Fox Business interview on furloughed…

Fox Business Interview with Matt Crampton On Jul 23, 2013 I did an interview with Fox Business talking about Gigwalk and the larger economy Fox Business Interview with Matt Crampton Download Interview Video File size: 24.2 MiB

Huffington Post Interview with Matt Crampton On 03/16/2015 I was interviewed by Charu Sharma for The Huffington Post on Gigwalk and going against the flow.

Human Cloud panel with Matt Crampton In December 2014 I participated in a panel discussion focused on Online Staffing and Human Cloud Platforms Download Video File size: 732.0 MiB

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley panel with Matt Crampton On Nov 22, 2016 I spoke at the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley panel on Challenges in Starting an On Demand Service Download Video File size: 833.3 MiB

NBC Press Here interview with Matt Crampton I did an interview with NBC Press Here on August 29, 2013 with Chris Preimesberger and Levi Sumagaysay Download Interview Video File size: 26.3 MiB

Salon.com Labormetrics Interview with Matt Crampton On 08-16-2013 I was interviewed by Andrew Leonard for Salon.com on labor and the Gig economy.

Techcrunch Interview on Gigwalk with Matt Crampton On Feb 20, 2013 I was interviewed by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch on Gigwalk and the Gig Economy Read Article The interiew is pasted below as well...

Wall Street Journal Live Interview with Matt Crampton On 10/8/2014 I did an interview with The Wall Street Journal talking about Gigwalk and the larger economy Wall Street Journal Live Interview with Matt Crampton Download Interview Video File size: 53.8…

A camping trip can be quickly ruined if there's a medical issue with someone in your group and noone remembered to bring along a properly stocked first aid kit.

Every Python Assert Method in One List I am constantly looking up assert methods on the Python 2 Unit Test Documentation and it's driving me crazy because that page is super long and hard to mentally parse.

Converting a Javascript Dictionary To GET URL Parameters I've had serveral instances in the recent past where I needed to take a javascript dictionary and convert it into a set of GET parameters to be used in a URI.

Invalidate All Cloudfront Files From The Command Line As I mentioned before, this website is built using Jekyll which generates static html which is then hosted on AWS S3.

Checking if a variable is set in Jekyll This site is built using Jekyll which allows me to generate the entire thing as static html which can then be hosted on AWS S3.

Al Jazeera Interview On July 27th, 2015 I spoke with Al Jazeera about the Gig economy and trends for millenials and companies.

Silicon Valley Business Journal - Best CIO: Matt Crampton On June 20, 2014 I was nominated as best CIO by Silicon Valley Business Journal Read Article The interiew is pasted below as well...

Query an NTP server from Python This code has been updated to support Python 3.

Moving VIM .swp Files Vim has this annoying habit of creating .swp files in your current working directory when you're editing a file.

JS Error using X-Editable If you're trying to use X-Editable and getting a JS error similar to this...

Mac Terminal WIFI Commands I'm seeing over a thousand people a day show up here looking for the mac terminal WiFi commands.

SF New Tech Presentation on Gigwalk On Jul 30, 2013 I gave a presentation at SF New Tech on Gigwalk, crowdsourcing and the gig economy.

Force VIM to stop overwriting your default buffer when pasting I use VIM all the time for development, one thing that always bugs me is when I yank a chunk of code into my default buffer, and then paste if over something else, VIM will take whatever was p…

Fixing "Viewport argument value" error in webkit's console I've been doing a lot of web development for mobile devices lately, and while I've been using chrome's developer tools, I keep getting annoying error messages in the console like this...

Continuing on with my attempts to blog code and command snippets that I've found useful, Here's a trick if you need to copy a directory recursively, but retain all the permissions set on the first one.

Fixing position:fixed elements stuck in the middle of the page on iPhone Safari We ran into an annoying bug over at Gigwalk while building a mobile webapp running inside Phonegap.

Running a for-loop over a Jinja2 dictionary At the time of this posting, iterating over dictionaries inside a Jinja template is poorly documented, especially if you need access to the jinja dictionary keys and it's something I end up doing alot.