May 2013
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May 9th
November 2012
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Nov 19th
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“One of my philosophies as a designer is that you should first start with the...”
– Jack Cheng (here, though post is only available to Kickstarter backers)
Nov 14th
October 2012
3 posts
Multiball Skills →
mwfrost: When playing with more than one pinball, things tend to get a little stressful. These are some of the skills you can use to make multiball a little more manageable. Every tip in this list also applies to being a parent of multiples.
Oct 11th
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“You know, you and especially your grandparents could have used more of a spirit...”
– James C. Scott, in an imagined address to hyper-obedient Germans.
Oct 10th
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Oct 7th
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September 2012
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Sep 18th
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June 2012
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“Great products stand on their own merit and sell themselves. They are simple,...”
– @danielgatsby
Jun 19th
May 2012
2 posts
May 15th
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Thoreau (via zachklein)
May 14th
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March 2012
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Egg By C.G. Hanzlicek I’m scrambling an egg for my daughter. “Why are you always whistling?” she asks. “Because I’m happy.” And it’s true, Though it stuns me to say it aloud; There was a time when I wouldn’t Have seen it as my future. It’s partly a matter Of who is there to eat the egg: The self fallen out of love with itself Through the tedium of familiarity, Or this little self,...
Mar 30th
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February 2012
1 post
“I’ve learned that talking to the press is like talking to the police — ideally,...”
– Marco
Feb 19th
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January 2012
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“If I kept thinking, “I am doing something that could shape the character and...”
– Jennifer Trafton
Jan 28th
December 2011
2 posts
“Late last night, inspecting Santa’s handiwork, a simple thought occurred to me....”
– John Gruber
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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October 2011
2 posts
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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August 2011
2 posts
In NYC? Want to meet up?
Hello, folks following me on TUmblr … I know a bunch of you are in/around Manhattan. I’m in town for a few days, and would love to meet up with you (that’s the singular “you”, but that goes out, individually, to all of you (plural)). I’d especially love to come cowork with you wherever you do your thing, but even if you just want to meet up for a drink,...
Aug 9th
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“In this town I’ve always said “Don’t ask for permission,...”
– Ian MacKaye (via mwfrost)
Aug 7th
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July 2011
5 posts
“The immediate, visceral negative reaction to the rich Corinthian leather...”
– John Siracusa, in his review of OS X Lion
Jul 20th
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From the Apple store, when it’s being updated / down for maintenance: Interesting how those two words change the tone of the message, and, at least for me, the response of the reader.
Jul 20th
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The internet never forgets.
This is how you do a retraction: The opinion column that follows doesn’t live up to the proud tradition and our best intentions for BYTE. It not only lacks the deep and authoritative technical content that we want BYTE to be known for, but it also doesn’t reflect the community’s views on Apple. Although there are plenty of people who don’t like Apple products, and some...
Jul 18th
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Jul 16th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-3) →
She & Him (14) DJ Krush (3) NPR (2) DJ Fox (2) Animal Collective (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 5th
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June 2011
7 posts
“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the...
Jun 29th
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“Being good is more important than being original. Originality is a product, not...”
– Mies van der Rohe (as quoted by Paul Rand)
Jun 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
Death Cab for Cutie (61) Reel Big Fish (26) The Postal Service (22) The Mountain Goats (13) Pixies (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Owl City (25) Helmut Winschermann: German Bach Soloists (18) Portishead (11) Trevor Pinnock: The English Concert (6) Reinhard Goebel: Musica Antiqua Köln (4) Imported from
Jun 21st
“The path is created by walking.”
– Bertold Bernreuter
Jun 13th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
The Mountain Goats (12) Erin McKeown (3) The Postal Service (3) Architecture in Helsinki (2) Animal Collective (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 7th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
The Mountain Goats (9) Fleet Foxes (3) Johnny Cash (3) Hungrian Concert Orchestra & Peter Janos (2) Architecture in Helsinki (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
Jun 6th
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May 2011
12 posts
Cache-busting the WordPress stylesheet
Update: My friend Russell has a more evolved version of this, viewable here: Cache-busting Path Plugin for WordPress. I’ll probably still use mine, as I’m trying to limit the number of outside functions I’m including, but if you’re looking to add cache-busting into your blog, I’d suggest running with his. This isn’t new, but it always takes me longer to find...
May 30th
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On the Google Wallet Logo
Google just sort-of announced a new project, Google Wallet. I don’t have a lot of thoughts on the project itself (yet), in part because it isn’t out yet, and in part because it’s for Android (not the iPhone). But I do have a few thoughts about the logo. It’s great. The Colors It incorporates the “Google palette” well, with each section of the band...
May 27th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Fleet Foxes (14) The Clash (5) Medeski, Martin and Wood (4) Death Cab for Cutie (2) Fatboy Slim (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
The Mountain Goats (20) Johnny Cash (14) Matt & Kim (5) Kevin Cryderman (3) Bridge Underwater (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 22nd
“You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting...”
– Zombie Marie Curie
May 21st
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DOC2DOCK: Save Our Supplies →
cameronmoll: The service tells the story. Delightfully. /via @carson
May 21st
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Excluding Individual Files in Git
I was looking for a solution to a problem I was having, and wanted to write up my notes on it. The Setup Tony and I have a codebase we’re working on (Monotask), that we’re currently deploying several times a day to our server at Slicehost. We’re also preparing a server at a new host (at Linode), as we’re going to transfer the whole app over to Linode. We use Git (and...
May 13th
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May 13th
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“If I think about why I share Groupme, it’s not because I’m unlocking a new feature by hitting Fbook like, or even saying something about myself, by displaying my usage. I pass groupme along because it’s a gift i can give to friends that doesn’t cost me anything. Too many viral mechanics focus on rewarding or incentivizing spread before the product has become awesome enough that it is a...
May 10th
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“Our job is to make products where the manuals are zero lines.”
– Aza Raskin
May 9th
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May 9th
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Aligning Baselines
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with some web typography … not experimenting with fonts, but working with typesetting and layout. My background is in typesetting and book design, and I like bringing some of my practices from that over to my web layouts (even though that’s not always ideal, as we get to later in this post). So, anyway, I’ve been working on some layout...
May 8th
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April 2011
9 posts
Hashbombing
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened more. It’ll be interesting to see how companies deal with this sort of namespace collision in the future, especially when a corporate entity (even one as tech-savvy and fluid as O’Reilly) has to deal with an “off-brand” bottom-up use of a “claimed” hashtag like this. This one wasn’t even intentional...
Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
Owl City (22) Jack’s Mannequin (14) Matt & Kim (8) The Style Council (2) Alien Alright (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 20th
“Let’s build something awesome and be home for dinner.”
– Mark Brown
Apr 13th
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A Thing I Made: OmniAuth for Sinatra
I’m not sure if I’ve talked at all about how much I love the programming framework Sinatra. It’s fun and “gettable”, especially for someone approaching programming from the perspective of a front-end developer. But — like Rails — Sinatra doesn’t come with an out-of-the-box user authentication program. You have to code up the whole “create an account /...
Apr 12th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Faded Paper Figures (14) Idioteque (10) Owl City (8) Norah Jones (3) Andrew Bird (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 11th