January 2012
4 posts
“I try to remember all the products I’ve talked about that I won’t...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
What refreshing honesty.
E-mails from an Asshole: The Great Commanche Quest →
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December 2011
4 posts
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) →
minimalmac:
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the...
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“Please explain evil. Show your work.”
– Answers and Questions - Posts - luo.ma
November 2011
11 posts
Patagonia – The Cleanest Line: Don't Buy This... →
We need more of this.
“This is what is so facinating about science and the real world - it...”
– qwoltrfa comments on Science
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“It was my honest attempt to find a more pure form of God that made me realize...”
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“Right now the social networking sites occupy a similar position to CompuServe,...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
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October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
1 post
“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
Something to Aspire To: Being a Flâneur →
“Reminds me of something a redditor wrote about trolling his son. He was going to...”
– Ever pulled a prank that didn’t pay off for years? : AskReddit
Made for a solid hour of great reading.
ReMate →
Essential when working in Textmate with remote files. If not TM tries to update metadata and pings a bunch of stuff every time it is brought back into focus, which is very slow and beachballs for 4-5 seconds, annoying.
June 2011
3 posts
Dissecting an Episode of MythBusters →
This explains one of a few reasons I stopped watching mythbusters a few years ago. The context switching got to be really annoying. I like following a myth from start to finish or just broken up once and then laid to rest. Top Gear did the same thing just more obnoxiously because the cast is much smaller and there’s no narrator helping you keep up.
How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at... →
Pretty wonderful piece on learning. I tried Project Euler a few years ago and only got through a few problems (no more than 10), maybe I’ll try it again soon.
May 2011
1 post
“The exact sequence of the development of civilization depends on who you ask,...”
– Techno-anthropology: Utopia’s scaffolding
One of the best feelings of interacting with the internet, finding people who think about things like you do.
April 2011
4 posts
43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging... →
I remember hearing this when it came out. Just came across it again, more relevant than ever.
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– why the lucky stiff
“When you sand off the edges of this stuff it stops being the same piece of...”
– Merlin
Watching this from afar had been a great help in itself.
“Humans have an endless desire to explain everything in neat abstract frameworks...”
– dhh on 8bit Podcast Episode 14
March 2011
4 posts
prog21: (1) keep it simple, (2) make it something... →
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February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
7 posts
“A lot of people never use their initiative because no one told them to.”
– Banksy (via sleepymushrooms)
Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your X →
Excellent, and the conclusion applies to most things in life with shortcuts or pre-existing frameworks that can be picked rather than putting out an honest product, effectively shortchanging yourself at some cost for some benefit.
Usability tool prototype build with nodejs. →
freakin impressive
WatchHoly shit.
December 2010
14 posts
