Muskblog: Making the Internet better since 1995

The CFA exams are approaching and that means more traffic for some old blog posts I wrote containing online resources for the Level 1 exam. It also means some folks are likely in for a rude awakening when they sit their first practice exam or on the actual exam day…

I never set out to build a miniature painting news aggregator, but I did build and maintain one for many years. I had time to do it because too often I was #unemployed. I was just trying to help a fellow blogger out with a problem they were having. You know me, always helping other people, when I should be helping myself…

Although I perhaps should have been using the time in other ways, I’ve spent considerable time and effort building a custom news aggregator. I was able to leverage SimplePie and PHP to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I also wanted to scour the Internet, social media, and all the trendy Web 2.0 networks for the best content related to the hobby of miniature painting…

So I’ve been building something. And while doing so I discovered there are three different types of feeds on the Internet…

About a week ago the iPhone App for Fitocracy, a niche social network, that tries to ‘gamify’ fitness was released. Prior to it’s release I used two other iPhone apps to track my workouts then I would dutifully enter the information into the Fitocracy website in order to earn points, badges, and the props of my peers…