Nitin Khanna's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Nitin Khanna's Blog

Nitin Khanna — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:10:40 -0000

thank you for those words! How did you discover this old, old post??

Re: Changing my relationship with Facebook

Nitin Khanna — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:09:02 -0000

Yeah, it's absurd watching them chase after one wrong idea after another, simply ignoring their users.

Re: Changing my relationship with Facebook

Matt Hollender — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:11:15 -0000

So unfortunate that we have to play Facebooks game. Thank you for this!

Re: Relishing Failure

Matt Hollender — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:04:46 -0000

Thank you for sharing. I'll have to check some of these out! Where’d You Go, Bernadette sounds fantastic and right up my alley.

Re: Nitin Khanna's Blog

Tiffany Wellington — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:34:07 -0000

Nothing in life is permanent. Things come and go, but one must continue to explore their curiosity, their values and strive for greatness despite all odds. Always progress and search and relish in the savory pleasures of life, otherwise you are not living a worthy life.

Re: Facebook’s biggest mistake with Snapchat

cristy jones — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:03:25 -0000

Snapchat is secure than facebook in my Point of view.

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

@Michael_Martinez — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:22:34 -0000

I have a love-hate relationship with JetPack. But I'm afraid it does not run deep enough for me to say I know exactly what it is doing.

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

@Michael_Martinez — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:21:37 -0000

If I find time to do it I'll leave a comment here.

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

Nitin Khanna — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:49:26 -0000

Do share the results of your experiments... Would help me a lot!

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

Nitin Khanna — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:48:28 -0000

Maybe you're right. Maybe Jetpack's servers ignore Twitterbot for metrics by default. But it doesn't hurt to have it removed from the data anyways. I'm not hurting twitterbot's ability to work, just jetpack's ability to see it.

Or am I? I'm not familiar enough with Jetpack code to saw for sure. There's no way for me to check what is being sent to jetpack servers. That's troublesome for me, if only because I'd love to know how to edit the data they use to calculate my visitor analytics.

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

@Michael_Martinez — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:41:05 -0000

True enough. But I was surprised to see Twitterbot called out in this post because I have used Jetpack for years and I don't believe it records Twitterbot, which spends a lot of time on my servers. I would expect to see more reported traffic on some newer sites than I do if Twitterbot were triggering the Jetpack statistics. It might be worth running some experiments to see what can trigger Jetpack (I know the SEMalt bot does that). I'll have to think about that.

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

Nitin Khanna — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:16:13 -0000

well, the idea is not to block any bots but to make sure they don't show up in your analytics... :)

Re: Fixing Jetpack’s Stats module

@Michael_Martinez — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:54:38 -0000

Twitterbot is actually a good bot in that it needs to fetch the URLs for TwitterCards (enhanced Tweets for URLs on your site). If you do not use the TwitterCard markup then you can block Twitterbot in "robots.txt".

Re: कुक्कुराणां वनं

ghouse basha — Wed, 27 May 2015 13:08:32 -0000

You can earn a few bucks too while translating from english to sanskrit

Re: Kill all the Uruks

Nitin Khanna — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:43:51 -0000

heh... Precisely what it's like! But try to apply that to other spheres of life too...

Re: Kill all the Uruks

Anurag — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:06:02 -0000

It's like when you reach level 7 in ingress. Or the boss battle in doom.

Re: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

Nitin Khanna — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:43:35 -0000

Thanks Brendan... The surprising thing is that I've not yet seen the movie myself, but heard so much about it!

Re: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

Brendan K — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:33:53 -0000

I like your blog Nitin. Into the Wild is one of my favorite books of all time!

Re: Sabji Acchi bani hai – Part 1

jordan — Thu, 22 May 2014 05:55:15 -0000

good la idhar v de bhook lagi hai

Re: n+1

Dad — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:53:10 -0000

Happy Birthday Nitin. Day is not far when human race is assured life beyond 100 and it is just 74 years away. Great celebrations....

Re: A brief update on Fever/AppFog

Nitin Khanna — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:24:38 -0000

Hugo, as a matter of fact, I'm still using Fever. I've got 400 feeds, so I've not kept any space for a cron job, I just leave a tab of Fever open on Chrome on one laptop. That keeps Fever up to date... :)

Re: A brief update on Fever/AppFog

Hugo Chisholm — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:14:53 -0000

Hi.

I too host my Fever installation on Appfog, and also was initially worried about the restrictions.

I have two apps running on my free tier, one for Fever and one for cron updating. As you can see in the screen shot, Fever is *not* using many resources for me; just under 100MB of memory and under 10MB of storage. I have perhaps up to 100 subscriptions, but no more than that.

So I don't see why you couldn't just continue to use their free tier. It's still working great for me.

Cheers,

Re: To the hacker trying to log into my WP blog

Davis Finney — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:52:10 -0000

Gud one khanne!!

Re: To the hacker trying to log into my WP blog

Maanya Sharma — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:31:53 -0000

Good one sir g :D

Re: Temp

Nitin Khanna — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:17:57 -0000

hehe... No Dad, it's definitely America... :)