May 2011
32 posts
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“If you play ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘Wizard of Oz’...”
– Eli Braden
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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“Opening iTunes feels like walking into an aircraft carrier sized pawn shop run...”
– Craig Mod
May 25th
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Remember window positions with Stay.app →
Stay.app has been one of the most helpful apps for my sanity in the last few months. I removed the menu bar item and set up a keyboard shortcut for it (⌃⌥⌘S) and now my windows stay where I want them. Divvy.app is also good when paired with Stay.app for this kind of nit-picky window management. (I use Dmitry Baranovskiy’s Mac Kbd Converter for things like the aforementioned hot key.)
May 25th
May 23rd
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May 23rd
“Apple has yet to address the issue publicly, but the company is famous for...”
– From MacRumors, EFF Urges Apple to Support Developers Against Lodsys Patent Threat, but whatever. Just, this.
May 21st
May 21st
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Reading My Way to Better Design →
Via Pamela Fox.
May 21st
Life Coach Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman: Protip: get the secret location to parties by offering to help/perform/bring something they need—works every time. But I mean, actually do what you signed up for too. It’s usually more fun than just showing up and getting drunk. You get to meet people sober.
May 21st
May 16th
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Close Every Other Tab I Have Open Except This One
⌘⌥W: Least helpful accidental keyboard shortcut ever.
May 12th
“Sometimes when I want to get a little crazy, I eat some wild rice.”
– From “Shit My Sister Says” on Twitter.
May 11th
May 10th
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Javascript and the End of Progressive Enhancement →
Required reading: Admit JavaScript is mandatory and let the Web progress. Also, don’t miss my good buddy James Pearce’s comment.
May 9th
“After about ten minutes, I let one of the kids play with it, but instead of...”
– Don’t send the developing world PCs: send them Kindles
May 9th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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“Play / Play music / Play playlist {Name} / Play album {Album} / Play artist...”
– Things you can say to your iPhone/iPod touch My proposed commands: Pause workout End workout Current workout distance Voice memo End voice memo
May 3rd
May 2nd
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WatchWatch
Via Sencha’s Tumblr: We had a lot of fun making this video, and we couldn’t wait to share Ext JS 4 with you. Check out our launch video for Ext JS 4, the industry’s most advanced JavaScript framework.
May 2nd
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Node.js and the Javascript Age →
The JavaScript age is about event streams. Modern web pages are not pages, they are event-driven applications through which information moves. The core content vessel of the web — the document object model — still exists, but not as HTML markup. The DOM is an in-memory, efficiently-encoded data structure generated by JavaScript. … The principal role of the server is to ship an...
May 2nd
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“The best computer scientists are … technologists who crave beauty.”
– David Gelernter
May 2nd
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ListenBraiker: Voice actor friend-of-a-friend...
May 1st
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