February 2012
2 posts
I love @useClear for iPhone #UX
via realmacsoftware.com I just played with the Clear todo app and I love the gestures. The only thing I missed was UNDO by shaking the device. Get the app on the app store: http://itunes.com/apps/clear Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
This is where George Orwell lived
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January 2012
6 posts
Polish activists demonstrate against ACTA at -15°C
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One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave “hello, world” into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization. via james-iry.blogspot.com Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
E-Book Gesture Interface
via youtube.com It’s a prototype demo, but some gestures are really nice. I’m not really sure what will be the right gesture to turn multiple pages, but I kindof like the very simple one where you slide with 2, 3 or four fingers to turn 2,3 or 4 pages respectively. Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Google's basic meeting rules
Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there’s no decision maker — or no decision to be made — the meeting shouldn’t happen. No more than 10 people should attend. Every person should give input, otherwise they shouldn’t be there. No decision should ever wait for a meeting. If a meeting absolutely has to happen before a decision should be made,...
The Phone Stack
via getkempt.com Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill. Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad - YouTube
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December 2011
3 posts
I haven't seen a #failwhale in a while. Hello dear...
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My testing framework is written in CoffeeScript...
And this is meant including examples and documentation. ;-)This is my little framework: 1 tests = {ok:(->true),should_have:->false};console.log( if t() then ’.’ else “\n#{d} FAILED\n”) for d,t of tests #coffescript #testing Just create an object where all keys are descriptions of the functions and functions have to return true or false. The examples could be a...
Notorious Siri
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November 2011
2 posts
Seems like I bought the 2 shortest books in CS...
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger? via worrydream.com Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
October 2011
4 posts
HoloDesk - Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated...
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Quantum Levitation - quantum superconductors...
via youtube.com This breaks a lot of assumptions I had about magnets. Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera // Jonas Pfeil
Please check our Frequently Asked Questions. PATENT PENDING. Contact page. To be presented as the Emerging Technologies demonstration ‘Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera’ at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: Jonas Pfeil, Kristian Hildebrand, Carsten Gremzow, Bernd Bickel, Marc Alexa. Computer Graphics Group, TU Berlin. Diploma thesis ‘Throwable Camera Array for Capturing Spherical...
Google+ - Stevey Yegge on Amazon's SOA ...
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting. - every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS...
September 2011
6 posts
Why Good Visualization Matters: Rethinking the...
via blog.infochimps.com it reminds me a lot of Microsoft’s Metro Design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language) Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
heute-show: Wir sind Papst! - ZDFmediathek
via zdf.de this is German Comedy! Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
TextMate or vim? #Amen - the best thing ever!
What’s your account? Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
$ cheat git
git push <repository> +<remote>:<new_remote> replace a <remote> branch with <new_remote> think twice before do this Example: git push origin +master:my_branch via cheat.errtheblog.com Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Kiva: Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance
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GitHub's simple git workflow
Anything in the master branch is deployable To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes) Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request After someone else has reviewed and signed off...
August 2011
7 posts
Wikipedia List of inventors killed by their own...
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Home - Dark Patterns
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Understanding the Git Workflow
If you’re fighting Git’s defaults, ask why. Treat public history as immutable, atomic, and easy to follow. Treat private history as disposable and malleable. The intended workflow is: Create a private branch off a public branch. Regularly commit your work to this private branch. Once your code is perfect, clean up its history. Merge the cleaned-up branch back into the public...
The YouTube Creator Playbook - gPresentation
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“A Generation Ago”
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Getting started with computing!
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Context Switches
I don’t use an external monitor, ever. Navigation of the operating system and applications should be ingrained behaviors, muscle memory. The less I have to think about my navigation between applications and through my code the more room I have in my brain for the problem I’m working on. If I had a different set of behaviors at the office hooked up to a monitor I would be...
July 2011
1 post
8 bit Invader via @trieloff
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June 2011
8 posts
The beauty of Apple's iCloud icon is in its...
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Kriminalpolizei writes code like it’s 1998 - via...
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jan.sh: Kriminalpolizei writes code like it's 1998 →
yeahrock:
I was super-excited when I looked at the source code of kino.to after it has been taken down by the German Kriminalpolizei (think FBI). They use tables, fixed widths, and extra rows as spacers. Plus, they don’t close their tags and they can’t even spell height. I feel much so safer now,…
Konami Code
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A start via en.wikipedia.org Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Twitter / @optikfluffel: Die bestgelaunteste Meute...
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Chromium Blog: Chrome Developer Tools: Put...
In this post, we will cover four tools in Google Chrome that can help you understand how your application makes use of JavaScript memory. The simplest one is the built-in Task Manager. It is available under > Tools > Task Manager. The “JavaScript memory” column isn’t visible by default, but you can turn it on via the context menu [1]: The numbers are updated in the real time. via...
Douglas Adams on a Kindle
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Technosocial Wormholes - We are all Cyborgs
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May 2011
6 posts
Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4 - Kogeto...
via kickstarter.com See more on http://kogeto.com Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Less Framework 4 grid PDFs to wireframe and sketch
Recently I did some frontend development with Less Framework 4, Compass and the Less Framework Plugin for Compass. I wanted to do some more sites with the Less Framework and needed PDFs for printing and sketching but couldn’t find any. That’s why I wrote a small Ruby script utilizing the Prawn gem to create these PDFs for me. Feel free to use and fork my little script. 1 2 ...
InterConnected Brains: We turn into Human Cyborgs
Foer read that Apple had hired a leading expert in heads-up display — the transparent dashboards used by pilots. He wonders whether this means that Apple is developing an iPhone that would not require the use of fingers on keyboards. Ultimately, Foer imagines, the commands would come straight from your cerebral cortex. (Apple refused to comment.) “This is the story of the next...
Erlang - the Movie
ReadWriteWeb has a couple of free Erlang books and tutorials over on http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/free-e-books-on-erlang.php But the highlight for me is the following video which I saw for the first time. Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
Use Git Flow, it is great!
A few month ago I had problems with git branches. It was no technical problem, it was more like a mental barrier to think about branches: “When should I branch, how do I merge, what is running in production and how should I create and merge hotfixes?”. These were the questions that I found hard to answer until I started to pick up Git Flow which gave me a simple branching model. And...
April 2011
4 posts
My very first own iPhone app: Pfandrechner
I’m pretty happy that my first iPhone app is available at the iTunes app store: http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/pfandrechner/id433252145?mt=8 It’s a small and simple bottle deposit calculator that my friend Jacky had the idea and created the icons for. German bottle deposit rules are among the most complicated deposit rules in the world, that’s why we made this small app. If you...
Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display
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Gmail Motion turned into reality using Kinect
via engadget.com I was sure somebody would hack Google’s April fools gag into reality, but this was really fast. These gestures are ridiculous! :D Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
How To Steal Like An Artist - Austin Kleon
via austinkleon.com great advice Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »
March 2011
6 posts
Accounting is just Graph Theory
via martin.kleppmann.com Posted via email from Richard Metzler | Comment »