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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Faster PDFs with wicked_pdf and delayed_job (part 3)

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Faster PDFs with wicked_pdf and delayed_job (part 2)

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Faster PDFs with wicked_pdf and delayed_job (part 1)

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Unicorn vs. Passenger on Heroku

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Moving from Gmail to FastMail

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Fix Bluetooth in OS X Yosemite

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Why I’ll never buy from Virgin Mobile again

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Pricing a SaaS app is hard

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

How to be a nomadic programmer

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Having a standing desk improves my productivity

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signalvnoise.com 11y ago

Why the hell not?

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Dieting, productivity, and the Whole30

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Building an email product: “7 days to kick sugar”

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

2014 in review: a programmer's retrospective

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www.matthewbass.com 11y ago

Muut for Octopress

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Excluding iPads from the mobile-fu Rails plugin

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: Build an Army of Products

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: Unlimited Supply of Prospects

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: Shaping Your Solopreneurship to Your Life

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: Seven Lessons in Personal Marketing

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

RubyConf 2012 recap (part 2)

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

RubyConf 2012 recap

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: The Anatomy of a Freelancer

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: The Simple Logic of SEO

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012: How to Form Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Indieconf 2012 recap

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www.foxnews.com 13y ago

5-hour Energy CEO denies reports his drink linked to deaths

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www.matthewbass.com 13y ago

Ruby Hoedown 2012 recap

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Entrepreneurshit 14 years ago

Some people become entrepreneurs because they want to make loads of money. Others do it for the freedom and lifestyle it affords them. It just depends on what your priorities are. Personally, I prefer setting my own hours over driving a BMW.

For me, a non-Retina 13" MacBook Pro with upgraded memory and SSD hard drive approaches the perfect machine. It's cost effective and blazingly fast. The extra cost associated with a Retina display isn't worth it to me, especially given the premium Apple charges for the SSD upgrade.