Archive: Miscellany

Alfred shortcut for HTML5/CSS3 compatibility

Great idea by developer David Kaneda. Totally should come in handy during my cross browser testing phases.

This is why you spent all that time learning to program

Programmer James Hague:

When I sit down to work on a personal project at home, it’s much simpler. I don’t have to follow the familiar standards of whatever kind of app I’m building. I don’t have to use an existing application as a model. I can disregard history. I can develop solutions without people saying "That’s not how it’s supposed to work!"

That freedom is huge.

Having recently knocked out some side projects of my own recently, James really hits it on the head. If you’re a developer and don’t have the time space to go off and run with your own thing on your own time, you’re missing a big growth opportunity.

The ‘Take Shelter’ ending

Finally caught up with Take Shelter late yesterday evening, and Michael Shannon’s performance completely blew me away. Yet that ending…I won’t spoil anything, but if you’ve seen the film, there’s a pretty in depth discussion here over at the Criterion Forum regarding exactly what happened.

Apple has a 7.85″ iPad in their labs

It’s certainly made the horn since The Talk Show podcast, but this is big news. Weight and heft has been the big pain points for iPad usage; it’s why my iPad generally stays in its case while my Kindle and iPhone get very heavy use. A (cheaper?) 7.85″ iPad could change all that, especially with full compatibility of existing iPad apps.

Brett Terpstra’s iOS text editor roundup

Brett really outdid himself on this one. Assuming it stays updated (even though for now I am a happy Notesy user) this is going to be a really valuable resource.

Fico, a font with icons

In today’s An Event Apart talks I saw some tweets about this, a custom @font-face set that deploys a list of 52 commonly used icons. Interesting.