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ParisLemon
The 100 Slots
The 100 Slots: I’m surprised Apple’s system (or lack thereof) for app testing has lasted this long without a major overhaul. At some point it seems like Apple has to acquire TestFlight or build their own version. As Jessica Vascellaro points out, the developer test account system was sort of arbitrarily set up: Apple…
The Art of Less Doing · ari@lessdoing.com (Ari Meisel)
Achievement Architecture - Be More Effective
"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."- Ralph Waldo EmersonLess Doing has taken me on a path I never intended but am nonethelessvery pleased with. A few months ago I started teaching classes throughSkillshare (a wonderful platform) on The Art of Less Doing. Theoriginal goal was simply to get live…
Bustr Bensn
Interested in #mentoring
Interest stats: Interested since: 2011 Looking for mentorship: Got one! Diana Kimball. Willing to mentor: Not quite yet. Level of interest: 8 Level of mastery: 1 Origin story: This just all of a sudden jumped onto my zeitgeist last year, as a strategy for self-improvement that I hadn’t really considered before. Diana…
Signal vs. Noise · Taylor
Why Attacking Application Exceptions is Important
Background Every week, a few of our programmers focus on responding to customer problems that might indicate a bigger issue with one of our applications. In addition, we’re constantly looking at issues (Rails exceptions, performance “hotspots”, etc.) that don’t bubble up to the customer level, but that are just “good…
ParisLemon
We Are The 0.6%
We Are The 0.6%: Hard to pick the most ridiculous element of these updated numbers. Is it that just 0.6% of Android users have Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) two months after it launched? Is it that of the remaining 99.4%, only 55% are upgraded to Gingerbread (2.3), which came out over a year ago? Is it that over 30% are…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking
ShaunInman.com // plus Elsewhere
Stock
These things I produced in 2011: The Last Rocket Though not released until mid-August I started work on what I consider to be my first proper game in early January. The development of this game, more than anything else, shaped the past year. It was critically well received, responsible for a quarter of the year’s…
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My favorite things in 2011
1. Olive Mrgan Ten months old now, she’s a stellar baby. Her current repertoire includes lightning-speed crawling, confident assisted walking, occasional freestanding, eating small bits of fruit and cheese, iPad use, the early stages of dancing and clapping, and the syllables “na”, “da”, “ba”, and “la”, infinitely…
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Alan Moore's alternative Thought for the Day
Alan Moore's alternative Thought for the Day: If you’ve got a spare two minutes, give this a spin: Alan Moore succinctly explains his made-up religion on BBC Radio 4. Or, check out this transcript from the Forbidden Planet blog: “Hello everybody, my name’s Alan Moore, and I earn a living by making up stories about…
KK Lifestream
Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Originally posted in The Technium I saw the Tin Tin movie last night, which was super. I think we have passed beyond the uncanny valley into the hyperreal. What's the uncanny valley? As we make robots and animations more human-like, we increase our emotional attachment to them, but only up to a point. As they become…
Little Green Dot
The Year of Simple Imperfection
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and awe in nature. It is authentic, simple, uncluttered and a celebration of the marks that time, weather and use leave behind. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, handmade, it’s aged wood, untreated paper, unfinished hems. It reminds us that we are connected to…
Subtraction.com
Design Staff: How to Interview a Designer
Another great article from Design Staff, the design-for-startups blog that I wrote about earlier in the month: Writer Braden Kowitz offers one approach to interviewing design candidates: “…Set up a well-scoped design problem and ask a candidate to solve it on the spot. It can take anywhere from 15-40 minutes…
davetrott · Dave Trott
WHAT’S WANTED v WHAT’S NEEDED
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
The Latest in Travel Hacking: Earn Free Airfare in 2012
Waxy.org Links
Metafilter's Best Post Contest winners announced
some incredible entries, including Falco's career, Muppet Labs, and the untold story of Sesame Street's David
Bustr Bensn
Cultivating interests in 2012
New year resolution thoughts, in no particular order. Rather than making goals or resolutions this year, I’m going to be more intentional about cultivating specific interests. My current interests are: Behavior change Habits Mentoring, and being mentored (inspired by Diana Kimball) “Good” gamification Life lists…
ParisLemon
"Clopen"
This is a great post by Danny Sullivan. For those of us caught up in the iOS vs. Android battle, it can be easy to lose sight of the simple, bigger picture. Android may be “open” in the fact that other companies can use the source code and users who so desire (and know how) can root it. But from a pure consumer…
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
Limbo is on the Mac App Store. It’s a brilliant puzzle...
Limbo is on the Mac App Store. It’s a brilliant puzzle adventure with unbelievable art direction. It’s everything that’s right with games and nothing that’s not.
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Thomas Christiansen: Debugging My Allergy
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Nick Crocker: Floss the Teeth You Want To Keep
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Erik Kennedy on Tracking Happiness
High Performance Web Sites · Steve Souders
Loadtimer: a mobile test harness
Google LatLong · Lat Long Blog
Experience the tsunami-affected areas of Japan through Street View
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
The CrowdFlower Blog · Mollie Allick
10 Things I learned at CrowdConf 2011
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
The psychology of buying high and selling low
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
2011 Annual Review: Looking Forward
Think Vitamin · Allison Grayce
Finding the Perfect Icon Set
remy sharp's b:log · Remy Sharp
I like Instagram, but it’s not as open as I’d like it to be
The Art of Less Doing · ari@lessdoing.com (Ari Meisel)
My iPhone App Selection for Productivity and Mobility
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The Art of Less Doing · ari@lessdoing.com (Ari Meisel)
How to Hire Freelancers on Elance.com
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hey stranger. will you wander off with me? · Sheryl
Breathe Neon
Coding Horror
Building Social Software for the Anti-Social
In November, I delivered the keynote presentation at Øredev 2011. It was the second and probably final presentation in the series I call Building Social Software for the Anti-Social. I've spent almost four years thinking about the Q&A format, and these two presentations are the culmination of that line of…
Coding Horror
Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition
Between founding Stack Overflow (and later, running Stack Exchange) and having a child, I haven't had much time to blog about the holidays for a few years now. The last Gifts for Geeks I did was in 2008. Those recommendations are still as valid as ever, but I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm to do it every year.…
Blog - Stack Exchange · Alex Miller
The Stack Big Board (with Video!)
Blog - Stack Exchange · Alex Miller
SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole
ShaunInman.com // plus Elsewhere
Sinkhole Postmortem
This past weekend I participated in my third Ludum Dare. I created an HTML5 game called Sinkhole from scratch in 48 hours. It was an awesome experience and the game didn’t turn out half bad either. Last time I had just launched The Last Rocket. This time I had just launched Chunks, a native port of my previous Ludum…
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
The Big Web Show No. 61: Khoi Vinh of Mixel and NYTimes.com
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
Why Mobile?
Marco.org
Open versus closed headphones
Generally, open-backed (or “open”, or “open air”) headphones produce higher-quality sound at lower prices than closed-backed (“closed”) headphones, and all of the best-sounding high-end headphones are open. But you probably shouldn’t buy open headphones. It’s irresponsible to discuss headphone recommendations without…
iMerlion: The Singapore iPhone/iPad Guide · noreply@blogger.com (Jimmy Yap)
TrafficLah alerts you to traffic jams
. The good people at buuuk had been pretty busy. Apart from DengueLah, they have also just released a free app called TrafficLah that will help you avoid traffic jams. What's nice about this app is that it will learn what your regular route is and you can set it to send an alert if there is a traffic incident on your…
iMerlion: The Singapore iPhone/iPad Guide · noreply@blogger.com (Jimmy Yap)
DengueLah helps you avoid dengue hotspots in Singapore
. Track dengue hotspots with buuuk's latest app DengueLah. Stay safe! Follow @imerlion on Twitter or like us on Facebook! .