“The feedback from testing quickly sets us straight, and helps make sure that our efforts are really focused at optimizing the things that make a difference in the customer experience. ¶ If I had to summarize our learnings in three words: “simple …
Homebrew "MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!" or "The missing package manager for OS X." (tagged: homebrew git Apple Mac OSX terminal ) Tower Alleging to be "[the] most powerful Git client for Mac". So if the CLI isn't enough for you, I guess you could try this GUI. (tagged: git todo ) CSS […]
“Exactly two things have made airplane travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing the cockpit door, and convincing passengers they need to fight back. Everything else has been a waste of money. Add screening of checked bags and airport workers and we’re …
The way I put it yesterday: today I bought a 1987 paperback reprint of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” because I liked the way it smelled Dune, which I’m almost ashamed to admit I’ve never read. I saw it on the shelf at The Crow for $2.95. If I’m to believe the cover price, this paperback (printed […]
Turning it in at 52,703 of 50,000 (105.41%).  Got… 70% of the way to a novel?  With a bunch of extraneous stuff there in the middle, most likely.  Unnecessary verbosity.  But it still feels good to hit >50,000 words in a month.
And yes, I “fini…
+1,767 = 52,146 of 50,000 (104.29%)
Skipped Thanksgiving; did a little today and tonight, trying to wrap up and round out the scene I’d been working on.  Even more convinced now that there’s a lot more than a month’s worth of writing to get me t…
+669 = 50,379 of 50,000 (100.76%)
Tipped up and over.  But the story is far from done.  (There’s just a lot of fluff in the early bits…)  Going to peck away at this until November is over—see how far I can take it—and stub out the rest of th…
3.5 inch poster set on the Behance Network (via Daring Fireball) — assuming that a 3.5†diskette is ⅛th of an inch thick (because I can’t find a canonical listing for this anywhere) then that would make the floppy disk stack for Photoshop CS4…
at Wired.com’s “Danger Room†blog: Secret Insignias From the ‘Black Ops’ World