TNTpixel

A slice of heaven

Posted:
02/27/2009
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So a couple of radical changes in the works.

Firstly, I’ve been thinking more and more about it, and have finally decided to reformat the way I’m posting. Admittedly I’m not even a half-decent writer, but even considering my level of writing as a baseline, I think there’s room for improvement. In order to do that, I’ve decided to do my best to post more often, but much more concise. So this would be ideally the first of many short-and-sweet posts. We’ll see how that goes..

Secondly, I wanted to let everybody know that in the past couple of weeks, I moved from my horrendous hosting service GoDaddy (I know… I know…), to the Uber-Wonderful Slicehost. So yes, TNTpixel is now running on a fully independent Virtual Private Server configured entirely by yours truly. I highly recommend developers out there to check them out. They are l337 and cheap. Response times seemed to have improved significantly with little to no effort.

To anybody that hasn’t set up their own Linux machine before all I have to say is: Just do it! This was my first built-from-scratch server and everything went(...)

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I'm a Front-end and UI Designer obsessed about the web.

I read about topics like usability, design, typography and programming on a regular basis.

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