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.
Tether's Troubles in November 2022 12 Nov 2022
Tether Required Recapitalization In May 2022 20 May 2022
App Store Payments Will Have Increased Competition 28 Aug 2021
Solving The Vaccine Data Problem 24 Apr 2021
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like 09 Oct 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
The Working Group's White paper on Japan and covid-19 26 Mar 2020
Tether: The Story So Far 29 Oct 2019
How Discount Brokerages Make Money 26 Jun 2019
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like 19 Mar 2019
Japan's Hometown Tax 19 Oct 2018
Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You 09 Sep 2017
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 14: Running A Business Portfolio with Jonathan Siegel 10 May 2017
Kalzumeus Software Year In Review 2016 30 Dec 2016
I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas 09 Sep 2016
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 13: Selling Online Businesses With Thomas Smale 26 Aug 2016
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 12: Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody 03 Jun 2016
Developing In Stockfighter With No Trading Experience 30 Oct 2015
Designing And Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game 20 Aug 2015
Talking About Money 01 May 2015
Announcing Starfighter 09 Mar 2015
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 11: Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money 27 Feb 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
Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014 22 Dec 2014
Doing Business In Japan 07 Nov 2014
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 9: Customer Onboarding With Samuel Hulick 15 Oct 2014
Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars 05 Aug 2014
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 8: High Touch Software Sales with Steli Efti 24 Jul 2014
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 7: Launching New Products 20 Jun 2014
Conversion Optimization in Practice: Baconbiz 2013 Presentation 12 May 2014
What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing 09 Apr 2014
What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap 03 Apr 2014
Kalzumeus Software Year In Review 2013 06 Jan 2014
Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 6: Teaching As Marketing 27 Aug 2013
Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization 17 Jul 2013
If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP 17 Jun 2013
Selling Your Software To Businesses [TwilioCon 2012 presentation] 23 May 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
What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup 31 Jan 2013
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
Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn 11 Oct 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
Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model 13 Aug 2012
Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune 06 Aug 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
I Redesigned My Software. Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. 19 Apr 2012
Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore 09 Feb 2012
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued 23 Jan 2012
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
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
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice 29 Oct 2011
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think 08 Jul 2011
Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week: Microconf 2011 Presentation (1 hour) 17 Jun 2011
Speaking At Microconf — Free Ticket Inside 23 May 2011
Appointment Reminder at 6 Months 15 Apr 2011
Software For Underserved Markets 26 Mar 2011
Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake 13 Mar 2011
Japanese Disaster Micro-Update 13 Mar 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
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
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
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
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
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
SEO for Software Companies 17 Jul 2010
Speaking at Software Industry Conference 15 Jul 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
Unveiling My Second Product (Demo Included) 14 May 2010
Interviewed by Andew Warner On Entrepreneurship [Video] 01 May 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
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
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
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
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
Practical Metaprogramming with Ruby: Storing Preferences 17 Nov 2009
Tracking Down A Subtle Analytics Bug 01 Nov 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
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
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
$50,000 of Bingo Card Creator 17 Aug 2009
Introducing A/Bingo: Rails Split Testing 15 Aug 2009
Update: Landing Page Redesign Successful 09 Aug 2009
Using Mixpanel With Ruby on Rails 08 Aug 2009
Landing Page Design Tips 06 Aug 2009
My AdWords Are Turned Off [Edit: Resolved] 02 Aug 2009
Keeping The User Moving Towards Conversion 01 Aug 2009
Practical Conversion Tips For Selling Software 26 Jul 2009
Release It, Then Iterate Like Mad 12 Jul 2009
Testing a New Marketing Strategy: Email 11 Jul 2009
What stats do you want to see? 08 Jul 2009
Web Version Gets New Coat Of Paint 04 Jul 2009
Bingo Card Creator Goes Web 2.0 28 Jun 2009
Why does cron hate me so? 19 May 2009
Dropbox is saving my bacon 11 May 2009
Yay for A Productive Hour 09 May 2009
That too ENTIRELY too long 06 May 2009
572 day uptime… 03 May 2009
Hard to get motivated some days 03 May 2009
Major Progress on BCC Web Application 05 Apr 2009
Bad Places To Have Bugs: Pricing Logic 30 Mar 2009
Working on Bingo Card Creator 3.0 28 Mar 2009
オープンソース・ソフトウェアとうまく勝負するにはどうするか 18 Mar 2009
Socks, Software, and the "Stupid" Questions Costing You Sales 16 Mar 2009
My Favorite WordPress Plugin 14 Mar 2009
2008 Taxes Done, Well Ahead of Schedule 14 Mar 2009
How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software 07 Mar 2009
kalzumeus.com (Not www. Version) Down For A While 02 Mar 2009
Sales Exceed Salary (Scary Thought!) 01 Mar 2009
Moved Blog From WordPress.com to Own Server 27 Feb 2009
98, 99, 100! 27 Feb 2009
Results of Native Compilation vs. Java Split Test 25 Feb 2009
Massive Update To Stats Tracking 24 Feb 2009
A/B Testing Lightbox Screenshot vs. Screenshot + Download Link 22 Feb 2009
Ninety. Four. Percent. "()$#(") 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
My name is Patrick McKenzie (better known as patio11 on the Internets.)
I write Bits about Money, a biweekly-ish newsletter on the intersection of tech and finance.
I host the Complex Systems podcast, a weekly conversation about the technical and human factors underlying infrastructure.