Stop drinking coffee and buy SSDs instead. →
coderwall.com
A protip by shanselman about hackerdesk.
May 2013
April 2013
Killing some temptations
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
Enable "text selection"
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
“Take. Fucking. Control.
Or pretend to have it.
And stop whining.” —Overheard in the subway.
Or pretend to have it.
And stop whining.” —Overheard in the subway.
December 2012
“This pattern is not just useful, not just beautiful, it’s inevitable. This is why science and mathematics are so much fun, you discover things that seem impossible to be true and then get to figure out why it’s impossible for them not to be.”
—
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
“So humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.”
—Benoit Mandelbrot
October 2012
True Romance
Citizens !
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.
Floopsy: W.T.F.M: Write The Freaking Manual →
floopsy.com
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
Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
Sufjan Stevens
Este disco tiene una relación inefable con Octubre.
September 2012
Zack Shapiro: Forget the last one. Do the next one. →
zackshapiro.com
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
Apple only...
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
On Testing →
infiniteundo.com
“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
The Turing Problem →
feeds.wnyc.org
Another great episode from Radiolab, this one is dedicated to Alan Turing.
February 2012
“When you ask for more information, explain what you need the information for, or at least be more specific what kind of “more information” you need. That way, you save everybody lots of time. The people answering your question don’t waste their time gathering information you don’t need (and gathering that information can be quite time-consuming), and you don’t waste your time sifting through all the information you don’t want.”
—Raymond Chen on The Old New Thing Blog.
“At first this behavior might seem illogical. Why would the mouse prefer another shape when it knows there will be a reward if it goes toward the normal rectangle? The answer is that the mouse did not associate that particular rectangle with the reward. It associated the “rectangularity” with the reward.”
—
From The Mouse and the Rectangle by Dustin Curtis.
Also, a TED Talk from VS Ramachandran
January 2012
“Sure, each one of us wanted to finish ahead of all the others, but we also knew that running as a group would make us all run better and that running our best would require both cooperation and competition.”
—runwell on running the Olympic trials.
