I share productivity hacks I’ve learned, and analyze software performance. Currently blogging about *all* the productivity hacks I know. A few thousand people have actually read my stuff, which is really cool! I’m on twitter, @SpeedTestDemon, or subscribe to get notified of new stuff.

Here’s link to download free e-book on 12 productivity tips.

Productivity Hacks

Productivity and Learning Tips. Some essays will be very general and applicable to everyone — other essays may be more geared towards software engineers, simply because I know so much about how to be a great software engineer. casibom

• Turing Technique: Life-Changing Tip To Get Better At Chess and Chess Variants Quickly, written by a Fully Recovered Chess Addict
• Chrome Aliases, visiting bookmarks with just a few keystrokes
• Surprising mention of affirmations from 3 totally different people: a cartoonist, an olympian, & “America’s greatest salesman”
• Zig Ziglar’s trick: little-known way to beat procrastination due to reluctance, and the best anti-procrastination trick I’ve ever used
• The Four Most Powerful Mindset Hacks That Have Worked For Me

Rants/Strong Opinions

I have fun writing these essays. They are about software usually, but don’t fit in any of the other categories yet.

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CDNs

Currently doing a series of blog posts analyzing free CDNs (or the free tiers of premium CDNs).

• Cloudinary vs CloudFront: Cloudinary crushes Amazon Web Services!
• Jetpack CDN vs Amazon Web Services CloudFront: Jetpack surprisingly faster!
• Is a premium CDN like CloudFront worth it, instead of a free CDN?
• Cheat Sheet on Curl Performance Metrics: how to benchmark server latency with curl
• How To Speed Test a CDN (Testing Methodology)

Free Downloads

Open sourced under MIT license.

Python CDN Speed Test Script: I use this to automate the collection of metrics about CDNs.