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Pinboard recent ‧ popular ‧ tour ‧ howto log in END BANNER Getting Started Saving Bookmarks Privacy Tags Import Bookmarks Export RSS Post By Mail API Mobile Site If you're new to the site, take a look at the tour of Pinboard to get familiar with the site's features. You may also want to look at the list of useful Pinboard resources . If you get stuck, send me email or find me on Twitter . Pinboard uses bookmarklets for bookmarking. Bookmarklets are little javascript links that live in the bookmarks toolbar of your browser. Here's the list of bookmarklets we offer: popup opens a little form window when you want to bookmark a page. It's the fastest way to add a bookmark. popup with tags is a slightly larger bookmarklet that shows a clickable tag cloud. same page will load the save bookmark form in the same window as the page, with no popup. ...

Pinboard go to site ‧ take a tour END BANNER RSS Pinboard Blog Pinboard Turns Six Today is Pinboard's sixth birthday as an online service, but of course the roots of the site go much deeper. My grandfather started Pinboard all the way back in 1931, when he was a young agronomy student in need of some way to help keep track of cuttings. What began as a simple system of shelves and apple saplings had soon expanded to encompass the books in his comfortable study. In 1968, like so much of Polish culture, Pinboard went underground, in this case literally, as a warren of tubes and cables that could be quickly disconnected if a local political officer came snooping by. The rat's nest of hidden cabling below the floor would inspire me years later when it came time to wire up my own servers. By 1980 Pinboard was an elaborate system of strings and pulleys cross-referencing...

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Pinboard go to site ‧ take a tour END BANNER RSS Pinboard Blog The Five Stages of Hosting As a proud VPS survivor, I thought it might be fun to write up five common options for hosting a web business, ranked in decreasing order of 'cloudiness'. People who aren't interested in this kind of minutia would be wise to pull the rip cord right here. 1. The Monastery You run your site on an 'application platform' like Heroku , Azure , or Google App Engine . You design your application around whatever metaphors and APIs the service lays out, and in return you are veiled from all the mysteries of implementation. You never interact with the computer directly, but upload your code to the platform with the proper incantations and it runs. The orders vary in strictness, with GAE requiring that you purify yourself of all worldly design habits before writing your app, Azure...

Pinboard go to site ‧ take a tour END BANNER RSS Pinboard Blog Thoughts on Colocation After a week of slogging servers around northern California, I thought a brain dump on colocation might be useful to readers, and to future me. I wrote about the difference between colocation, leased servers and other kinds of hosting in an earlier post . This one is strictly about colocation, the 'Condo' approach where you own a bunch of hardware and need a place to put it. What you are after is not complicated: A physical enclosure Some kind of Internet connection Power Security guards However, buying it is a pain in the neck. Money It's typical to sign a one- or three-year contract. Right off the bat this introduces an element of pressure, since you're making a fairly binding, long-term decision without knowing what you're doing. Unless you live in the Bay Area, colocation i...

Pinboard recent ‧ popular ‧ tour ‧ howto log in END BANNER english français 日本語 deutsch русский polski Social Bookmarking for Introverts Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site. No ads, no fluff. Take a tour of the site to see whether it meets your needs. Should you switch from delicious? Of course you should ! username : password : [ lost password ] Sign up now for $10.33 (this is a one-time fee) “A one-man operation can compete against million dollar corporations and thrive.” “Pinboard is a very effective service… Sometimes, you don't need glitz; you need plumbing.” “A clever bookmarking service that lets you organize links […] and even cache copies of entire web pages.” “One dude in his underpants somewhere who has five windows open to terminal servers.” end blurb div © Nine Fives Soft...

Pinboard recent ‧ popular ‧ tour ‧ howto log in END BANNER english français 日本語 deutsch русский polski Social Bookmarking for Introverts Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site. No ads, no fluff. Take a tour of the site to see whether it meets your needs. Should you switch from delicious? Of course you should ! username : password : [ lost password ] Sign up now for $10.33 (this is a one-time fee) “A one-man operation can compete against million dollar corporations and thrive.” “Pinboard is a very effective service… Sometimes, you don't need glitz; you need plumbing.” “A clever bookmarking service that lets you organize links […] and even cache copies of entire web pages.” “One dude in his underpants somewhere who has five windows open to terminal servers.” end blurb div © Nine Fives Soft...