February 2008
34 posts
travors:
The problem you’re dealing with now won’t last forever. No matter how huge it is in your life today, some day it will become a faded memory. You’ll need to find patience but for now, take a look at the new strengths you are developing.
Take a look at how you’re standing on your own two feet. It’s ok to feel and express a loss, it’s a strength to do so. It is an amazing quality that you...
Photonic →
Gruber::
New desktop Flickr client for Mac OS X.
I actually stumbled upon this about 24 hours before Gruber did and have to say that I’m pretty impressed so far. It’s far from perfect, but the app’s got a lot of potential.
Gmail's Buggy IMAP Implementation →
jwock:
Yes. A thousand times, yes. As much as I love being able to cleanly use my Gmail account via Mail.app and MobileMail.app, the whole labels-are-folders thing is a huge hack.
(via df)
Yes, yes, yes. Not to mention, it feels like Gmail IMAP has gotten slower and slower ever since launch. I’m this -><- close to switching back to the Gmail web interface…
“Usually, if you’re validating someone else’s code, it’s because you’re being...”
– Your markup validator
“At MIT I was social ‘cause I looked at other people’s feet.”
– Jofish
Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely... →
I love that the NYT wrote an entire article about semicolons. Just wonderful. The correction at the bottom is the best part:
[This article] was less deft in its punctuation of the title of a book by Lynne Truss, who called the placard a “lovely example” of proper punctuation. The title of the book is “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” — not “Eats Shoots & Leaves.” (The subtitle of Ms. Truss’s book...
“The client is always right. But when the client is wrong, you have to face up to...”
– B. Arms
garfield minus garfield →
This is the greatest tumblelog. Ever.
“[…] the ultimate unit test is whether or not users want to use your...”
– The Ultimate Unit Test Failure
ScreenFlow →
I have absolutely no use for this, but wow are some of those features cool. If you need to do professional screencasting, this is now the app.
Silverback →
I have no idea what this site is for, but it’s really cool looking. Go on and resize the window. Slick.
“A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works...”
– Joel Spolsky
Huh. My name too.
“Perl, Python and Ruby fail to attract many Java and C++ programmers because,...”
– Portrait of a N00b
Where Do You Fit? →
Find out where you fit in the scheme of information & communication technology users. Me? I’m an Omnivore of course.
Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music →
ofvarieddelights:
Pitch correction software has applications from restoration and mix-rescue to outright distortion of a voice or instrument […] If you’re unfamiliar with Auto-tune, and especially if you listen to much pop and rock, you might not hear it initially. When overdone, the effect yields an unnatural yodel or warble in a singer’s voice.
[via: kayfabe]
qgit on Leopard
Install instructions
If you try to use open qgit.app qgit won’t know what directory you’re in and your Git repo won’t open automatically. Instead, setup an alias to call the binary directly:
alias qg='/Users/dstrelau/bin/qgit.app/Contents/MacOS/qgit &'
"Yes We Can" →
Obama’s already eloquent speeches put to music and song. Quite stirring.
UPDATE: It was made by Will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas. More in an abc interview here.
Using Git within a project (forking around) →
That’s me! Holy shit!
Frozen Grand Central →
dailymeh:
Improv Everywhere had 200+ people synchronize their clocks, walk into New York’s Central Station, and simultaneously freeze in place, whatever they were doing, for five minutes. Beautifully executed.
“Git is so cool that I don’t know what its doing most of the time; but let’s hang...”
– Dr Nic