Month: May 2012
Anyone Can Be Good, Only Some Can Be Great
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Awesome post by Edward Cassie on sweating the little details. I was just thinking about that at my local bike shop when I looked at the cable housing they replaced. Sure it all works fine, but instead of a black cable end (which matches the rest of the bike) they used the standard silver. Sure…
Captcha’s Still Suck
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I wrote long ago about how Captcha’s are terrible for site usability, seems that one company wants to solve it by making them mini games. I must applaud the effort to change how they work, and make them easier for users to pass while still hard for machines. Captcha’s still suck though. I still stand…
My Strategies for Combatting Wrist Pain
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Since my late teens I’ve had issues with wrist pain. I blame it on bad cycling position (riding with my wrists bent down) and other types of manual labour (8 hours of shovelling for a summer anyone?). Yes there is surgery but I’ve found that I can manage it with the tips below. Keyboard I…
Yes We Certainly are in a Bubble
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I came across 2 articles this week, one on the tech industry being in a [valuation bubble][val] and one on how [Draw Something is doing now][draw]. Remember a few weeks back when [Zynga bought OMGPOP][omg] for a stupid amount of money because it looked like Draw Something was the next big thing. Well it seems…
Content’s Race to the Bottom – It Doesn’t Really Want to be Free
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[Ben Brooks][bb] wrote a [fantastic article][bbart] about free content and the expectations that were set eons (at least in web terms) ago about content being free. I am already a [member][mem] of [Shawn Blanc’s][sb] site. I pay $3/month so he can write full time, and I’m happy to do it. Paying for his content at…
I’ve Had Crappy Managers
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Sometimes I think that working for myself contracting sucks, then I remember what it was like to be employed full-time and I remember that it sucked more. On top of sucking more I had a boss that I had to report to and there were more crappy ones than good ones. … people become what…
Finally a New Design
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If you follow me on Twitter you’ll be familiar with my extreme distaste for the old site design. I loved it when I made it, but that was 3 years ago and I’ve changed. Visit the site for a new design. I built it using [LESS][less] and my development theme [Comienzo][com]. My first real dig…
Looking at a Writing Workflow
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Frederico Viticci shared his writing workflow. I too centre my files around Dropbox. My preference for writing app on iOS is iAWriter and I don’t use Evernote, I’ll write about why an everything bucket just hasn’t worked for me some other time. I use Instapaper to store article I want to read and maybe write…
What Does Productive Mean to you?
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On a recent members podcast Shawn talked about the type Z personality, from a post by Sarah Bray. The short version of her post is that she only works for 90 minutes a day. She divides that 90 minutes in to 15 minute blocks and devotes the first 4 to 4 items that are time…