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In this week’s micro edition we look at six great articles including a Medium post on proving your app idea with existing technology, the art of great support, Grunt, advances in wi-fi technology, Kieran’s latest bling accessory and a great post by our Texan friend Mr. Trent walton.

• From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
• Support Ops
• Automating with Grunt
• Mile-wide wireless
• The Nymi bracelet
• Human Interest

Like the proverbial phoenix, we have risen! Kieran is back and we finally wish each other a happy new year. This episode we try and get to the bottom of why we weren’t nominated for a Net Award, this as you might imagine takes a while.

We ask the other burning question of the week, that being is Harry Roberts (the one and only CSS Wizard) really under 25. We also manage to chat about some of the recent happenings in the web industry – no really we do. It’s good to be back.

• Net Awards
• Goodbye Editorially
• 37signals becomes Basecamp
• The Profitable Side Project
• MK Geek Night All Dayer
• Twitter for Machines
• Ownercamp
• Flappy Birds MMO

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