A protip by shanselman about hackerdesk.
May 2013
April 2013
I like browsing tumblr. I like the android app for tumblr. I use it a lot. This is bad for work. I don’t want to un-install it. I want to get used to NOT browsing tumblr while working.
Solution: Yet another Tasker profile that makes me browse either very early or late in the night.
Context
* Load App - Tumblr (add as many apps as you want/need ie. Facebook)
* Day of the week - Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat (yes, that’s my week)
* Time of the day - 8:00 to 19:00
Task
* Disable Wifi
* Disable Mobile Network
* Vibrate Notification: NO!
* Kill App - Tumblr (add the same apps as added above)
Next: do the same in laptop… pffft
March 2013
February 2013
When some websites disable the selection of text or the right click, a very useful bookmarklet can be used: Allan Hogan’s text-selection bookmarklet.
January 2013
Or pretend to have it.
And stop whining.” —Overheard in the subway.
December 2012
Vi Hart on Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant, Part 3!
A wonderful series about, well, spirals, the Fibonacci sequence and, being a plant.
November 2012
October 2012
As if Sunday was the answer to every question.
As the authors were offering their final points at the end of the Q&A, [Steven] Johnson hit on a metaphor that, for once, everyone could agree on: the city.
The city, like the internet, is noisy, distracting, overwhelming, and potentially isolating. But people choose the city for its stimulus and connection, says Johnson, “and for me technology is like that: I know the cost, but I choose it.”
[Sherry] Turkle jotted down the metaphor on her notepad before responding:
“The best artists learned to find solitude in the middle of the metropolitan space,” she said. And “we need to learn to find solitude in the technological space.”
” —Lonely, but united: Sherry Turkle and Steven Johnson on technology’s pain and promise (via ayjay)New York, México City, The Interwebs.
I will take this moment to reflect on what has been an epic exercise in utter frustration: Sifting through poorly written documentation or tutorials for an otherwise excellent programming language, framework, project, etc.
It seems that nowadays, the original phrase R.T.F.M. is also quickly…
fair is fair
Este disco tiene una relación inefable con Octubre.
September 2012
In high school, our lacrosse team had shirts and across the shoulders was printed a simple fragment of a sentence, “The next one.”
The idea was simple: if you got a ground ball, get the next one. If you scored a goal, score the next one. If you did something good, don’t dwell on it, do the next…
August 2012
July 2012
My only two reasons to get an iPad (and probably a Macbook Air):
· Retina Display
· Omnifocus
A month has passed since I changed my Android Transformer for an iPad and only these two precious items keep me in the Apple world.
June 2012
“Because as software engineers, a clean, well-functioning system is the basic foundation of the trust that our users put in us and in the products we deliver.”
April 2012
March 2012
Another great episode from Radiolab, this one is dedicated to Alan Turing.
February 2012
From The Mouse and the Rectangle by Dustin Curtis.
Also, a TED Talk from VS Ramachandran