I tend to think "reverse chronological order" is a terrible way to read essays, but here they are for completeness. If you're looking for something more curated, try the category list or the Greatest Hits.

Most of my writing in 2023 and 2024 was at Bits about Money.

November 2022

Tether's Troubles in November 2022 12 Nov 2022

May 2022

Tether Required Recapitalization In May 2022 20 May 2022

August 2021

App Store Payments Will Have Increased Competition 28 Aug 2021

April 2021

Solving The Vaccine Data Problem 24 Apr 2021

October 2020

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like 09 Oct 2020

April 2020

An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus 21 Apr 2020

Dropping hashes: an idiom used to demonstrate provenance of documents 21 Apr 2020

March 2020

The Working Group's White paper on Japan and covid-19 26 Mar 2020

October 2019

Tether: The Story So Far 29 Oct 2019

June 2019

How Discount Brokerages Make Money 26 Jun 2019

March 2019

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like 19 Mar 2019

October 2018

Japan's Hometown Tax 19 Oct 2018

September 2017

Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You 09 Sep 2017

May 2017

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 14: Running A Business Portfolio with Jonathan Siegel 10 May 2017

December 2016

Kalzumeus Software Year In Review 2016 30 Dec 2016

September 2016

I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas 09 Sep 2016

August 2016

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 13: Selling Online Businesses With Thomas Smale 26 Aug 2016

June 2016

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 12: Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody 03 Jun 2016

October 2015

Developing In Stockfighter With No Trading Experience 30 Oct 2015

August 2015

Designing And Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game 20 Aug 2015

May 2015

Talking About Money 01 May 2015

March 2015

Announcing Starfighter 09 Mar 2015

February 2015

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 11: Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money 27 Feb 2015

January 2015

Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS 28 Jan 2015

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 10: Putting the “Family” in Family Business 15 Jan 2015

December 2014

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014 22 Dec 2014

November 2014

Doing Business In Japan 07 Nov 2014

October 2014

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 9: Customer Onboarding With Samuel Hulick 15 Oct 2014

August 2014

Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars 05 Aug 2014

July 2014

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 8: High Touch Software Sales with Steli Efti 24 Jul 2014

June 2014

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 7: Launching New Products 20 Jun 2014

May 2014

Conversion Optimization in Practice: Baconbiz 2013 Presentation 12 May 2014

April 2014

What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing 09 Apr 2014

What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap 03 Apr 2014

January 2014

Kalzumeus Software Year In Review 2013 06 Jan 2014

August 2013

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 6: Teaching As Marketing 27 Aug 2013

July 2013

Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization 17 Jul 2013

June 2013

If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP 17 Jun 2013

May 2013

Selling Your Software To Businesses [TwilioCon 2012 presentation] 23 May 2013

April 2013

Marketing Software, For People Who Would Rather Be Building It 24 Apr 2013

Kalzumeus Podcast 4: Apps That Matter, Angel Investing, and B2B Sales with Matt Wensing of Stormpulse 08 Apr 2013

January 2013

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup 31 Jan 2013

December 2012

Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012 29 Dec 2012

I Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies 21 Dec 2012

October 2012

Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn 11 Oct 2012

September 2012

Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie On Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More 21 Sep 2012

Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client 17 Sep 2012

August 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model 13 Aug 2012

Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune 06 Aug 2012

May 2012

You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do 31 May 2012

Kalzumeus Podcast Ep. 2 with Amy Hoy: Pricing, Products, And Passion 18 May 2012

April 2012

I Redesigned My Software. Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. 19 Apr 2012

February 2012

Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore 09 Feb 2012

January 2012

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued 23 Jan 2012

December 2011

Bingo Card Creator (and etcetera) Year In Review 2011 21 Dec 2011

Productizing Twilio Applications 19 Dec 2011

Inaugural Kalzumeus Podcast: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More 01 Dec 2011

November 2011

Image Ad Blending Works Really, Really Well 23 Nov 2011

I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone 17 Nov 2011

October 2011

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice 29 Oct 2011

July 2011

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think 08 Jul 2011

June 2011

Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week: Microconf 2011 Presentation (1 hour) 17 Jun 2011

May 2011

Speaking At Microconf — Free Ticket Inside 23 May 2011

April 2011

Appointment Reminder at 6 Months 15 Apr 2011

March 2011

Software For Underserved Markets 26 Mar 2011

Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake 13 Mar 2011

Japanese Disaster Micro-Update 13 Mar 2011

January 2011

My Biggest Frustration With Google AdWords 27 Jan 2011

Hacking Customers' Technology Adoption Cycles 18 Jan 2011

Quantifying The Value Of A College Degree (By Major) 06 Jan 2011

December 2010

Bingo Card Creator (& etc) Year In Review 2010 18 Dec 2010

Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You 12 Dec 2010

Appointment Reminder Has Launched 06 Dec 2010

November 2010

Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part Two 16 Nov 2010

Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part One 04 Nov 2010

How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records 01 Nov 2010

October 2010

How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against FireSheep And Other Evils 25 Oct 2010

Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010 15 Oct 2010

September 2010

Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch 23 Sep 2010

Automatically Minimizing Javascript and CSS with Rails 13 Sep 2010

Organized, Curated Lists of Best Posts From This Blog 10 Sep 2010

New Trends In Startup Financing Explained For Laymen 02 Sep 2010

August 2010

The Hardest Adjustment To Self Employment 26 Aug 2010

Dealing With Market Seasonality 20 Aug 2010

Does Your Product Logo Actually Matter? 04 Aug 2010

July 2010

SEO for Software Companies 17 Jul 2010

Speaking at Software Industry Conference 15 Jul 2010

June 2010

Running Apache On A Memory-Constrained VPS 19 Jun 2010

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names 17 Jun 2010

Detecting Bots with Javascript for Better A/B Test Results 07 Jun 2010

The Most Radical A/B Test I've Ever Done 04 Jun 2010

May 2010

Unveiling My Second Product (Demo Included) 14 May 2010

Interviewed by Andew Warner On Entrepreneurship [Video] 01 May 2010

April 2010

Peldi from Balsamiq Interviewed For An Hour 30 Apr 2010

Dropbox-style Two-sided Sharing Incentives 28 Apr 2010

Data Driven Software Design Presentation (plus bonus interview) 22 Apr 2010

Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies 20 Apr 2010

Quick Start For Rails on Windows Seven 19 Apr 2010

Getting Interviewed By Andrew Warner at Mixergy 14 Apr 2010

Interviewed by Gabriel Weinberg [video] 06 Apr 2010

March 2010

CrazyEgg To The Rescue Again 21 Mar 2010

Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week 20 Mar 2010

Getting Ready For Going Full Time 20 Mar 2010

Stats Bug In A/Bingo v1.0.0 and earlier 16 Mar 2010

Business Stats On A Photo Frame 13 Mar 2010

February 2010

Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests 28 Feb 2010

Women, Men, And Other Things Done Wrong By Silicon Valley 23 Feb 2010

I Had Downtime Today. Here's What I'm Doing About It. 21 Feb 2010

A/Bingo 1.0.0 Official Release 14 Feb 2010

Using CrazyEgg on Pages Requiring A Login 11 Feb 2010

Dashboard Design For Metrics-savvy Software Companies 09 Feb 2010

What My User Survey Taught Me 07 Feb 2010

January 2010

Four Open Letters To The Book Industry 31 Jan 2010

Followup Questions for "Strategic SEO for Startups" 26 Jan 2010

Strategic SEO for Startups 24 Jan 2010

Wufoo + Free Incentivization = Cheap, Effective User Surveys 17 Jan 2010

Deploying Sinatra On Ubuntu: In Which I Employ A Secretary 16 Jan 2010

The Solo Founder (Startup) Rap 12 Jan 2010

Visualizing Your Commit History 10 Jan 2010

December 2009

Engineering Your Way To Marketing Success 31 Dec 2009

Twilio (phone call web API) is crazy fun 29 Dec 2009

Bingo Card Creator Year In Review 2009 18 Dec 2009

Bringing A/B Testing To The Fortune 5 Million 09 Dec 2009

It Seems I Have A Podcast Now 05 Dec 2009

November 2009

Practical Metaprogramming with Ruby: Storing Preferences 17 Nov 2009

Tracking Down A Subtle Analytics Bug 01 Nov 2009

October 2009

The IE CSS Bug That Cost Me A Month’s Salary 23 Oct 2009

How To Do A Seasonal Promotion for Your App 14 Oct 2009

Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity 04 Oct 2009

September 2009

A/B Testing Signup Page 21 Sep 2009

BCC 3.0 — Got a moment to beta test? 21 Sep 2009

Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications 05 Sep 2009

A/Bingo makes the rounds 05 Sep 2009

August 2009

Seeking A Freelance Writer/Blogger [Position Filled] 29 Aug 2009

Using WordPress and Rails on the Same Domain 22 Aug 2009

You May Have Too Many Domain Names When… 20 Aug 2009

Minor Lessons from A/B Testing 19 Aug 2009

$50,000 of Bingo Card Creator 17 Aug 2009

Introducing A/Bingo: Rails Split Testing 15 Aug 2009

Update: Landing Page Redesign Successful 09 Aug 2009

Using Mixpanel With Ruby on Rails 08 Aug 2009

Landing Page Design Tips 06 Aug 2009

My AdWords Are Turned Off [Edit: Resolved] 02 Aug 2009

Keeping The User Moving Towards Conversion 01 Aug 2009

July 2009

Practical Conversion Tips For Selling Software 26 Jul 2009

Release It, Then Iterate Like Mad 12 Jul 2009

Testing a New Marketing Strategy: Email 11 Jul 2009

What stats do you want to see? 08 Jul 2009

Web Version Gets New Coat Of Paint 04 Jul 2009

June 2009

Bingo Card Creator Goes Web 2.0 28 Jun 2009

May 2009

Why does cron hate me so? 19 May 2009

Dropbox is saving my bacon 11 May 2009

Yay for A Productive Hour 09 May 2009

That too ENTIRELY too long 06 May 2009

572 day uptime… 03 May 2009

Hard to get motivated some days 03 May 2009

April 2009

Major Progress on BCC Web Application 05 Apr 2009

March 2009

Bad Places To Have Bugs: Pricing Logic 30 Mar 2009

Working on Bingo Card Creator 3.0 28 Mar 2009

オープンソース・ソフトウェアとうまく勝負するにはどうするか 18 Mar 2009

Socks, Software, and the "Stupid" Questions Costing You Sales 16 Mar 2009

My Favorite WordPress Plugin 14 Mar 2009

2008 Taxes Done, Well Ahead of Schedule 14 Mar 2009

How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software 07 Mar 2009

kalzumeus.com (Not www. Version) Down For A While 02 Mar 2009

Sales Exceed Salary (Scary Thought!) 01 Mar 2009

February 2009

Moved Blog From WordPress.com to Own Server 27 Feb 2009

98, 99, 100! 27 Feb 2009

Results of Native Compilation vs. Java Split Test 25 Feb 2009

Massive Update To Stats Tracking 24 Feb 2009

A/B Testing Lightbox Screenshot vs. Screenshot + Download Link 22 Feb 2009

Ninety. Four. Percent. "()$#(") 18 Feb 2009

Someday, someday… 17 Feb 2009

Improving Support One Changelog At A Time 14 Feb 2009

Sales Up Massively, My Guesses As To Why 14 Feb 2009

Big Writeup About The New Cart 12 Feb 2009

iBox Overlay Doesn't Scroll 11 Feb 2009

Finished My Mini-Development Project, Mostly 08 Feb 2009

New Mini-Development Project For Me 07 Feb 2009

CrazyEgg Makes Me Serious Money… Again 04 Feb 2009

January 2009

Inno Setup + Excelsior JET = Slice MBs Off Download 24 Jan 2009

Bug squashed 22 Jan 2009

Things I Would Prefer Not Discovering At 1:30 AM 21 Jan 2009

Problem Solving At My Job and My Business 20 Jan 2009

Bingo Card Creator 2.5 Released! 20 Jan 2009

Quick (Final) Request For Beta Testers 18 Jan 2009

Head Slapper of an Oversight 18 Jan 2009

Could Use A Bit Of Beta Testing Again 17 Jan 2009

Bingo Card Creator 2.5 Coming Soon 12 Jan 2009

Football Bingo… Who Knew? 05 Jan 2009

December 2008

A Beautiful Twist On A Boring Old Thing 23 Dec 2008

Bingo Card Creator Year 2008 In Review 21 Dec 2008

Learning From (A Specific Example Of) Failure 13 Dec 2008

Programmer's Charity Drive (And How You Can Help) 11 Dec 2008

November 2008

Help Debug The World 25 Nov 2008

Free Christmas Bingo Cards 24 Nov 2008

Do You Debug Your Website? 18 Nov 2008

Can My Customers Use Paypal Without An Account? 17 Nov 2008

Book Recommendation For Budding Bloggers 16 Nov 2008

June 2008

Rails Fails To Update Serialized Columns On Save 29 Jun 2008

Introducing Widget Bakery 28 Jun 2008

Leveraging OSS As A Software Developer 27 Jun 2008

Bad News and Bad News and Good News 21 Jun 2008

Eight Amazingly Productive Hours 14 Jun 2008

Day 13: Early Proof of Concept 14 Jun 2008

Antair Moving On And Moving Up 13 Jun 2008

How To Use E-Junkie Without Your Customers Seeing It 13 Jun 2008

Tech Time Got Eaten 08 Jun 2008

Best App Name Among Sprinters 07 Jun 2008

30 Day Sprint: Houston We Have a Prototype 07 Jun 2008

Convenient List of 30 Dayers 04 Jun 2008

Reflection on Development Schedules 04 Jun 2008

Sketches and not much else 03 Jun 2008

Kickoff of 30 Day Sprint: One Lazy Day 02 Jun 2008

May 2008

Incredible Interest In The 30 Day Sprint 27 May 2008

More Talking and More Doing 25 May 2008

What I've Been Up To 18 May 2008

April 2008

I'm starting to feel the itch again 19 Apr 2008

The Big Book of Getting People to Link to You 09 Apr 2008

Pretty, New Competitor To Google Analytics 05 Apr 2008

Blog Has A New Address 05 Apr 2008

March 2008

Download Sites: Important or Not? 25 Mar 2008

Speeding Up Web Page Rendering 25 Mar 2008

Still More Graphical Fiddling Going On 23 Mar 2008

Insights On Blog Optimization 21 Mar 2008

New Blood in the uISV Blogosphere 21 Mar 2008

Steph Grenier On Generating Traffic For Your Website 20 Mar 2008

Bingo Card Creator Sales Stats 20 Mar 2008

Adding some backend tracking… 18 Mar 2008

Pressing My Customers' Buttons 17 Mar 2008

Results of Site Redesign 15 Mar 2008

Add An Image, Increase CTRs By Lots 13 Mar 2008

Brilliant Bit of Javascript for Redirecting Downloaders 13 Mar 2008

Regsoft Picks Up the SWREG Scam 09 Mar 2008

I Never Really Set Out To Have A Brand 09 Mar 2008

Candidates for New Bingo Card Creator Logo 06 Mar 2008

Significant Changes To Website 06 Mar 2008

Saint Patrick's Day Bingo Cards 03 Mar 2008

My Experience With Outsourcing Web Design 02 Mar 2008

February 2008

Review of Bob Walsh's MicroISV Sites that Sell e-book 24 Feb 2008

Quick Request Part #2 23 Feb 2008

If You Only Ever Read One Thing About Niche Marketing… 22 Feb 2008

Quick Request 22 Feb 2008

Blogging Hiatus For A Week 15 Feb 2008

Why I Don't Monetize This Blog 12 Feb 2008

Moving Off Of GoDaddy hosting 10 Feb 2008

Bingo Card Creator 2.0 is done! (Finally!) 10 Feb 2008

Blogging As Personal Marketing 07 Feb 2008

What Do You Want To See Covered Here? 03 Feb 2008

Redesign of Bingo Card Creator main site — interested? 02 Feb 2008

January 2008

Major Update To Google Analytics — Action Required 31 Jan 2008

Why You Shouldn't Pay Any SEO You Can Afford 29 Jan 2008

Google Features Bingo Card Creator 25 Jan 2008

Marketing Runs In The Family 19 Jan 2008

A Little Thing That Made My Day 17 Jan 2008

Need Services Of Web Design Freelancer 13 Jan 2008

Year 2007 Stats and Year 2008 Goals 13 Jan 2008

Happy New Year 03 Jan 2008

December 2007

Merry Christmas to other uISVers! 22 Dec 2007

Free Christmas Bingo Cards 09 Dec 2007

Six days. Twenty Dollars. One New Business. 02 Dec 2007

November 2007

Fantastic Article on SEO For Bloggers 29 Nov 2007

Because You Can't Quite Get Enough Transparency… 26 Nov 2007

Exploiting New Niches 24 Nov 2007

What the Duplicate Content Penalty Looks Like 23 Nov 2007

Rails SEO Tips 90% Completed 20 Nov 2007

A Side-Project You May Be Interested In 19 Nov 2007

Putting the Green in Evergreen 19 Nov 2007

Free Thanksgiving Bingo Cards 16 Nov 2007

Conversion Optimizer: AdWords, Done Right 10 Nov 2007

October 2007 Stats — $2,000 in sales 06 Nov 2007

Outline For This Week 04 Nov 2007

Google Searches By Flowchart 03 Nov 2007

Two Minute Updates Before Work 01 Nov 2007

October 2007

The Long Tail and the Big Head 30 Oct 2007

SEO Tips for Ruby on Rails 30 Oct 2007

That Shouldn't Even Be Legal 27 Oct 2007

Halloween Bingo Cards 25 Oct 2007

Developing Linkbait For a Non-Technical Audience 22 Oct 2007

Need To Borrow A Mac User For A Minute 20 Oct 2007

Firebug — Pretty Darn Good CSS Tool 20 Oct 2007

10,000 bucks… Yowza 20 Oct 2007

Sorry for lack of posts 16 Oct 2007

Don't Make My Really Elementary SEO Mistake 07 Oct 2007

Yikes, that was overwhelming 04 Oct 2007

Not Sweating The Small Stuff 04 Oct 2007

September 2007 Stats, Or, You Make $1k a Month on WHAT!? 03 Oct 2007

Before I Try RentACoder… [Edit: Got My Help, Thanks!] 03 Oct 2007

September 2007

Bingo Cards On Rails 29 Sep 2007

Google's Conversion Optimizer… Rocks 29 Sep 2007

Long Overdue, But… 27 Sep 2007

New Adwords Feature 26 Sep 2007

Deceptive AdSense Ads Worse Than Click Fraud 21 Sep 2007

CrazyEgg Pays For Itself Again 17 Sep 2007

Its A Small, Small World These Days 16 Sep 2007

Preliminary uISV Survey Results Up 15 Sep 2007

One of My Competitors Owes Me A Favor 13 Sep 2007

On Posting Frequency 12 Sep 2007

Using Google Website Optimizer Safely 08 Sep 2007

New Paypal Buttons 07 Sep 2007

Major New Feature For AdCenter 07 Sep 2007

Best Single Day Ever, Plus August 2007 Stats 01 Sep 2007

August 2007

Marketing A Superhero Novel (Web Admin Hackery Galore) 23 Aug 2007

The Next Adventure 23 Aug 2007

Congratulations to E-junkie 16 Aug 2007

Banking for the uISV 16 Aug 2007

July 2007

Harry Potter Bingo Cards 21 Jul 2007

Blogging Light Because… 21 Jul 2007

Bob Walsh Launches Consultancy 13 Jul 2007

Freeware Can Be Profitable, Apparently 09 Jul 2007

June 2007 Stats 07 Jul 2007

Conflict of Interest: Payment Processors vs uISVs 06 Jul 2007

Quick Favor From Mac Users 05 Jul 2007

Happy Birthday, Bingo Card Creator 02 Jul 2007

June 2007

A Happy Milestone 21 Jun 2007

Kalzumeus — The What, The Why, and a bit of The When 17 Jun 2007

Stats in Pretty Pictures 14 Jun 2007

May 2007 Stats 11 Jun 2007

Programming Productivity Up By 10%… Yowza 07 Jun 2007

Spending Money, Incurring Headaches 07 Jun 2007

May 2007

Ranking For An Arbitrary Organic Search Query 30 May 2007

A Note About Startups Outside the Valley 29 May 2007

How To Rename A Web Page 27 May 2007

Community-oriented Marketing — Forums, Usenet, Mailing Lists, etc 26 May 2007

Summer Is Upon Us 23 May 2007

More Web Site Tweakage (Link Colors, Download Buttons) 19 May 2007

May 2007 Mid-Month Stats 18 May 2007

65,000 spams on the wall, 65,000 spams… 16 May 2007

A Few Followups 16 May 2007

Increase Your Software Sales 14 May 2007

Minor Usability Errors In Checkout Funnel = You Lose Lots Of Money 12 May 2007

Still More Button Redesigns 12 May 2007

Google Analytics Redesign — More Web2.0, Less Useful 10 May 2007

Insomnia Leads To Download Page Redesign 10 May 2007

April Stats 10 May 2007

Heh, Amusing New Link 08 May 2007

Quick Update On New Icons 08 May 2007

Why Your uISV Should Have A Blog 04 May 2007

Out With The Old, In With The New (Buttons) 04 May 2007

I Love It When People Fix My Problems 01 May 2007

April 2007

Kalzumeus Hits 25% Feature Complete 28 Apr 2007

Busiest Day For Customer Support Ever 27 Apr 2007

Ca-ching 26 Apr 2007

I Do Not Normally Carry Press Releases… 25 Apr 2007

CrazyEgg vs. Google Analytics 21 Apr 2007

Simple Enhancement To Lightbox 18 Apr 2007

Trust Your Customers 18 Apr 2007

Nailed A Job Interview 17 Apr 2007

Taxes Don't Have To Be Pain 15 Apr 2007

Lightbox — Quick, Pretty Screenshot Previews 14 Apr 2007

I'm Glad *I* Don't Compete With Google… 14 Apr 2007

Kalzumeus Has Logins! 12 Apr 2007

Getting Somewhere On Kalzumeus 07 Apr 2007

March Stats and a note of thanks 01 Apr 2007

March 2007

Hideho, Readers of "Neat New Things" 30 Mar 2007

Dipping My Toe Into Squidoo 29 Mar 2007

"Thats Funny, No One Has Bought a CD In Weeks" 28 Mar 2007

Market/Pain Selection for Kalzumeus 23 Mar 2007

Introducing Kalzumeus 23 Mar 2007

Let Me Save You $30+ On Your Taxes 21 Mar 2007

March Mid-Month Stats 17 Mar 2007

Free Bingo Cards 16 Mar 2007

How Much Time A uISV Spends On Customer Support 14 Mar 2007

A Happy Milestone 13 Mar 2007

Always Dangerous Making Predictions Early… 07 Mar 2007

Note to those using Inno Setup… 06 Mar 2007

Luck of the Irish 04 Mar 2007

February Stats 03 Mar 2007

February 2007

Google vs. Paypal — Customer Preference 26 Feb 2007

SEO Trick I Hadn't Known About 24 Feb 2007

AdCenter Actually Performs Quite Decently 24 Feb 2007

Laugh To Keep From Crying… 23 Feb 2007

Am I Fanatical About Customer Service? 22 Feb 2007

Timetable For Next Project 20 Feb 2007

The Photo Doesn't Quite Do It Justice 19 Feb 2007

Revenue Growth Is A Wonderful Thing 18 Feb 2007

February 15th Stats Update 18 Feb 2007

How To Deal With Abusive Customers 16 Feb 2007

MicroISV on a Shoestring Reader 14 Feb 2007

Switched to SwiftCD 13 Feb 2007

The Next Project 13 Feb 2007

Musical Note Bingo Cards 12 Feb 2007

NSIS vs Inno Setup 10 Feb 2007

Simple Changes Fixed Adwords 09 Feb 2007

Lost Two Days 09 Feb 2007

Google (Finally) Lets You See Backlinks 07 Feb 2007

Second Interview Up 07 Feb 2007

Seems to be Interview Season 05 Feb 2007

Rates At Which Shareware Customers Request Refunds 05 Feb 2007

Bingo Card Creator (CD) gets a new look 04 Feb 2007

Paint.NET 3.0 is amazing 02 Feb 2007

January 2007

January 2007 Sales, Stats, and Strategy 31 Jan 2007

Do You Understand Your Market Cycle? 30 Jan 2007

Google Checkout vs. Paypal 30 Jan 2007

Amusing Mac Java Niggles and Incompatibilities 30 Jan 2007

Write Once, Debug Everywhere… 29 Jan 2007

5 things you don't know about me 25 Jan 2007

I'm A Slave To You (Google) 24 Jan 2007

Effects Of Purchase Page Reorganization 20 Jan 2007

Perl Makes Me Feel Dirty 16 Jan 2007

Why I Use Paypal 16 Jan 2007

If you haven't seen it yet… 16 Jan 2007

Already Confirmed Paypal Email Address But Can't Withdraw Money 15 Jan 2007

e-junkie Does It Again 13 Jan 2007

January Is Being Good To Me 11 Jan 2007

Tax Time! 02 Jan 2007

December 2006

So For Those Of You Investing Your Profits… 28 Dec 2006

Merry Christmas part 2 27 Dec 2006

Merry Christmas! 19 Dec 2006

November Stats 13 Dec 2006

Got Invited To Beta Google Split Testing Product 13 Dec 2006

I Am Oddly Motivated By Free Money 13 Dec 2006

Nice To Hear About Successes 11 Dec 2006

Things You Shouldn't Worry About 05 Dec 2006

Blogging As Professional Promotion 02 Dec 2006

November 2006

Just Do It 21 Nov 2006

Payloadz + Google Checkout = … ? 16 Nov 2006

Using Analytics To Improve Your Web Design 16 Nov 2006

The Busyness/Business Continues 16 Nov 2006

The Simple Joys Of Living In Rural Japan 06 Nov 2006

October Stats 06 Nov 2006

Trial Installer Corrupted, Again 02 Nov 2006

Free PR8 Link To Your Website (Shh, Keep It A Secret) 01 Nov 2006

October 2006

If One File On Your Web Server Gets Corrupted… 29 Oct 2006

A Handy Little Tool You Might Not Know About 26 Oct 2006

Sometimes I Wonder If… 25 Oct 2006

Bingo Card Creator Goes International 22 Oct 2006

Belated October Stats 20 Oct 2006

Bleg For Perl Help 19 Oct 2006

Dealing With Email Spam 19 Oct 2006

As You May Have Guessed… 18 Oct 2006

Blatant Plug For A Program I Like 11 Oct 2006

Accounting For Lazy Programmers 10 Oct 2006

Selling Software To People Who Don't Buy Software 09 Oct 2006

Stock Market Bingo, or, Investing for the uISV 04 Oct 2006

Object Lesson on Blogging for your Business 02 Oct 2006

Undergoing Massive Spam Attack Today 02 Oct 2006

Bleg for my Mac using friends 02 Oct 2006

September Stats 01 Oct 2006

Three Cheers for Tucows 01 Oct 2006

September 2006

Time To Get Back On Track 27 Sep 2006

Text Link Ads 23 Sep 2006

Crazy Busy This Week 21 Sep 2006

Selling Software on a CD 16 Sep 2006

Mid-month Stats Update 15 Sep 2006

Mac Version Doing Fairly Well 14 Sep 2006

Update on AdWords 14 Sep 2006

AdWords Kicks Me In The Shins 12 Sep 2006

Another Plug for e-junkie 11 Sep 2006

Once Is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Third Time Is A Pattern 10 Sep 2006

Bits du Jour update 09 Sep 2006

Bits Du Jour 08 Sep 2006

A Good Day 08 Sep 2006

Writing a Customer-Focused Blog 07 Sep 2006

Studying For the JLPT 07 Sep 2006

Kanji of the Day: 任 07 Sep 2006

Yo Ho, Me Hearties, Yo Ho 07 Sep 2006

My Next Piece of Software 06 Sep 2006

Everything You Need To Know About Registration Systems 05 Sep 2006

Yay, 1.04 Out The Door 04 Sep 2006

What Should Starbucks Do 01 Sep 2006

How NOT to do your license key checking 01 Sep 2006

August 2006

August Numbers 31 Aug 2006

How much content does your website have? 31 Aug 2006

Feature Creep! 31 Aug 2006

Another Hosted Services Success Story 30 Aug 2006

Porting to Mac OS X 28 Aug 2006

Minor SEO Updates 26 Aug 2006

The Art of Apologizing 26 Aug 2006

The Visual Impact Stock Icons Make 26 Aug 2006

Outsourcing for the uISV 25 Aug 2006

I Took My Own Advice… And It Paid Off 24 Aug 2006

Bingo du Jour 24 Aug 2006

Open Source vs. uISVs — Some Myths That Need To Die 23 Aug 2006

If Three of Your Computers Burned Up In A Week… 23 Aug 2006

Back Again 23 Aug 2006

Going Away For A Week 17 Aug 2006

To Limit, or Not To Limit 16 Aug 2006

I Love My Job 16 Aug 2006

Mid-month Stats Update 15 Aug 2006

You Can Probably Stand To Charge More 15 Aug 2006

Ten Reasons Why Most Internet Writing Is Terrible 13 Aug 2006

Update on Ad Experiments 11 Aug 2006

Tweak Your Installer, Double Your Sales 11 Aug 2006

Everybody Say Hiya To the New Guy 11 Aug 2006

When Ruthlessness Is Required 11 Aug 2006

The Anthem of My Business 10 Aug 2006

I'm Reviewed On A High Traffic Web Site! 08 Aug 2006

Early Results of Auto-Submission Experiment 08 Aug 2006

Don't Let Java/.NET Deployment Scare You 08 Aug 2006

The (Trial Downloads) Numbers Game 08 Aug 2006

A Love Note To My Favorite Productivity App. Ever. 06 Aug 2006

Impressions On Download Sites 05 Aug 2006

Peeking Over Your Customers' Shoulders 05 Aug 2006

Bingo Card Creator 1.03 Released 05 Aug 2006

Fie Upon You, YSM 05 Aug 2006

Single Minute Exchange of Dies 04 Aug 2006

Seasons Change, Ads Get Borked 04 Aug 2006

Support Does Not Scale. Customer Service Does. 03 Aug 2006

Semi-Offtopic: The Passion of the Customers 03 Aug 2006

More Business Firsts 02 Aug 2006

I Hate Typos + PAD Files Work 01 Aug 2006

A Month Worth Of Stats 01 Aug 2006

I'm Profitable 01 Aug 2006

July 2006

Minor Programming Tweaks 31 Jul 2006

On-page SEO for Small Companies 30 Jul 2006

10 minute tweaks to boost your conversion 29 Jul 2006

Legitimate Organic Searches Eclipse PPC 29 Jul 2006

And back to your regularly scheduled programming… 29 Jul 2006

Google's Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak 28 Jul 2006

Coolest mISV Product Ever 27 Jul 2006

Lesson: Check To Make Sure You Have Uploaded The Correct Installer 27 Jul 2006

Drop-Dead Simple Update Checking 27 Jul 2006

Re-evaluating My Opinion of YSM 27 Jul 2006

From "Minimize CPC" to "Maximize Conversions" 27 Jul 2006

Another Payment Processor To Look At 26 Jul 2006

I'm Cash-Flow Positive 25 Jul 2006

Its OK To Be Second Best 24 Jul 2006

If you're coming here via Google… 24 Jul 2006

Five Programs I Will Eventually Donate $20 To 21 Jul 2006

Figured Out The IE Problem 21 Jul 2006

'Tis An Ill Wind Indeed… 21 Jul 2006

Aww, poor cracker… 20 Jul 2006

I am really starting to hate web development 20 Jul 2006

Grr, annoying hackers 20 Jul 2006

Yay for iterative improvements 20 Jul 2006

Oh noes! 19 Jul 2006

Making AdWords Work For You 19 Jul 2006

Minor Niggles 18 Jul 2006

Accounting 17 Jul 2006

My First Sale! 16 Jul 2006

The Long Tail of Search 14 Jul 2006

Getting started with eSellerate 14 Jul 2006

My first feature request 13 Jul 2006

Localizing 12 Jul 2006

Getting Organic Search Traffic 11 Jul 2006

Conversion Rate Steadily Improving 11 Jul 2006

Nice Weekend Camping, Plans for This Week 10 Jul 2006

Took off nag screens 07 Jul 2006

Hustling for development dollars on eBay 07 Jul 2006

Idea for uISV Product 05 Jul 2006

Some minor accounting 05 Jul 2006

I Just Made (A) Front Page of Google 05 Jul 2006

Random Improvement 05 Jul 2006

Optimized Landing Page #1 05 Jul 2006

Happy Fourth of July 04 Jul 2006

My conversion rate is abyssmal 04 Jul 2006

Day #11: First Page of Google 04 Jul 2006

A Feature Before Bedtime 03 Jul 2006

Must Not Get Blinded By The Trees… 03 Jul 2006

My Very First Customer Contact 03 Jul 2006

Yahoo Advertising vs. Google Advertising 03 Jul 2006

Rock On Google 02 Jul 2006

Cows, milk, and conversions 02 Jul 2006

Bingo Card Creator By the Numbers 02 Jul 2006

So I Hit The Big Red Button And Went Away For Six Hours… 02 Jul 2006

Home stretch! 01 Jul 2006

Why Even One Man Teams Should Use Source Control 01 Jul 2006

June 2006

Unexpected Expenditure & Great Marketing Idea 30 Jun 2006

From Visitor to Downloader to Purchaser 30 Jun 2006

Introducing the Bingo Card Creator website 30 Jun 2006

Guestimating Market Size 29 Jun 2006

My Competition 29 Jun 2006

Unveiling The Software & Market 29 Jun 2006

And we're feature complete 28 Jun 2006

Development plan for the rest of the week 28 Jun 2006

The Joys of Open Source 28 Jun 2006

The Sorrows of Java Printing 28 Jun 2006

The Pros and Cons of Java for uISV 28 Jun 2006

The Original Conception through Release In 7 Days Story 27 Jun 2006

From Design to Market In Eight Days Or Less 27 Jun 2006

Random Acts of Kindess 27 Jun 2006

Dev Journal: First Three Days in the Trenches 27 Jun 2006

So you want to be a microISV 27 Jun 2006

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