Which programming language you choose to work in (if it is your choice) affects your productivity, satisfaction and much more. Not only that, but working in a trending language can even help your career or business.
$5 for unlimited backup storage? Wtf?
I’m sorry if this post sounds like an advertisement, but it is not. I ran into this backup service yesterday. It’s called Backblaze I was pretty surprised when I saw the price… $5 a month for a complete backup of your computer.. that is: unlimited storage for $5 a month. That’s nothing short of amazing. [...]
Designing Great UI is like Cleaning
Usually, when you need to put something down, you just place it on the next table and don’t think much about it. After a few days (or weeks/months/years) your appartment looks like shit and you have to clean it up. How do you clean? One thing at a time.
So one by one you take each item lying on the floor, on a table, in a shelf and find it a new home. Sometimes you can see a pattern in all your stuff that’s lying around and you might find a good place to put many of those things, like a cupboard a drawer, etc. Often you’ll already have great places to put them in, so you put them there.
Previewing fonts using Google’s font directory
Now you can preview fonts in the Google font directory. This is exactly the kind of thing Google does incredibly well. It also gives you the CSS needed to make the font appear the way it does in the preview. Nice one Google. Font Preview – Google Font Directory.
Following your dreams
Amit wrote on the Rootein blog: What is it with people refusing to take some risks to follow their dreams. Are their dreams not worth it? If not, why do we sulk about them later? Don’t we owe it ourselves to at least give our dreams a fair shot? read it: For God’s sake, follow your [...]
Somebody needs to invent this storage device
Storage. It’s an even lasting problem which a lot of companies out there are trying to solve. There are so many requirements and so many limitations. There are a few solutions out there which are pretty good but they are all tackling a separate problem.
Somebody needs to invent a computer/storage device with the following features…
Last night they dug up Bobby Fischer’s body
Last night the body of Bobby Fischer was dug up from his grave, ordered by Iceland’s supreme court. The aim is to get a biological sample to find out the truth whether Bobby Fischer is the father of philipean Jinky Young, who claims he is.
Ad Retargeting – An Advertisment’s Evil Brother
A topic that seems to be very hot these days is ad retargeting. Now, I’m not really a big privacy advocate and I don’t concern myself with those kinds of issues, but *if* I were I would probably be concerned with this topic!
If there ever was a reason to use an ad-blocker…
Don’t Backup your Projects
Quick post to remind everybody to not back anything up. You might lose all your projects and force yourself to reevaluate your priorities, reevaluate your projects and make some important decisions.