{"id":2,"date":"2008-02-24T00:17:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-05T21:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:53:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a personal blog, focused on software development, generally on the Mac.  I believe human factors are usually more important than code, because your program is useless if people can&#8217;t figure out how to use it.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for an interesting job; immediately available; and open to relocation.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/hirevincent.com\">HireVincent.com<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<h3>Comment Policy<\/h3>\n<p>My ultimate goal is to have everything be as useful as possible to <em>you<\/em>, the reader.  Comments are below the fold, but still part of an article.  So <strong>I may edit or delete comments, much as I edit and delete my own writing.  I will always clearly indicate if I have edited a comment.<\/strong> I believe in full attribution.<\/p>\n<p>This policy is capricious, but I think it&#8217;s preferable to <a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/2007\/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free\/\">no comments <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2007\/07\/20.html\">ever<\/a>, which I think makes a better read then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2004\/03\/19\/\">every jackass getting their say.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Disclosure and Disclaimers<\/h3>\n<p>I own stock in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliate-program.amazon.com\/\">Amazon-affiliate<\/a> links to products. In plain English, that means if someone buys a product they found from a link on my blog, I get a small (4%) kickback from Amazon.com. At least in theory. In practice, I&#8217;ve yet to collect any rewards. (<a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/disclosure-of-amazon-affiliate-linking\/\">read more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This website is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\">BlueHost<\/a>; articles and comments should not violate their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/terms_of_service.html\">terms of service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a personal blog, focused on software development, generally on the Mac. I believe human factors are usually more important than code, because your program is useless if people can&#8217;t figure out how to use it. I&#8217;m looking for an interesting job; immediately available; and open to relocation. See HireVincent.com for details. Comment Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}