Long time readers will know that more than a year ago, I tried to get a SmugMug site going on StackExchange. Today, we’re finally in Public Beta! We’re not done yet, though, so please head ov...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2012/02/08/smugmug-is-on-stackexchange/
I’ll make this quick, since I’d like you to take action rather than site here and read my blog all day. Congress may pass legislation that could destroy the freedoms we’ve all enjoyed on th...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/11/16/your-internet-might-die-today-please-help/
From The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet by Joe Stump at SimpleGeo: …what is so shocking about this banter is that startups around the globe were essentially blaming a hard drive manufacturer for ...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/26/best-aws-outage-post-yet/
tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn’t go down because we spread across availability zones and...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/
tl;dr: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope. Trying to move the Q&A for our community to StackExchange, which I love, and could use your help. Please click here, hit ‘Commit’, then ...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/12/15/my-love-affair-with-stackexchange-and-a-plea-for-help/
Inc has a article entitled Why ‘Be Passionate’ is Awful Advice where they baldly state that companies built on passion are fairy tales. They’re wrong. SmugMug is living proof. Here’s what...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/11/10/why-be-passionate-is-awesome-advice/
Anton Lorimer, a SmugMug customer and unbelievable photographer and videographer, recently filmed an excellent look inside SmugMug for us: Make sure to go Fullscreen and turn HD on, or click thro...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/09/21/a-look-inside-smugmug/
The new AppleTV is a huge disappointment. Welcome to AppleTV 2007.
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/09/01/what-the-appletv-should-have-been/
tl;dr: Serving dozens (hundreds?) of crawlers is expensive. We could use an open index. Google’s? Just read Tom Foremski’s Google Exec Says It’s A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/15/great-idea-google-should-open-their-index/
In my last post, I wrote that Apple wasn’t giving App developers access to the high quality 720p video recordings from your Library on iPhone 4. I was wrong. The documentation wasn’t clear an...
https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/09/i-owe-apple-an-apology/