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TouchBar will play nice with digital audio workstations like Logic Pro / Live, etc. I'll be happy to record pitch/mod/any VST param automations on a touch strip.
DJ-ing apps could show up cue points and let you trigger them.
While fullscreen mode on macOS advocated distraction-free focus, TouchBar takes a step backwards.
I'm a frontend+design guy, I tend to do it time to time.
OT: they forgot to setup their meta tags properly. The description is set to "Responsive Minimal Bootstrap Theme"
Pixel-by-pixel is an abuse indeed, sizes are huge, generation easy. It's like generated ascii art vs hand-made thoughtful pieces of work.
I like to rebound some dribbble shots with css3 http://dribbble.com/ideamonk/projects/97353-Pure-CSS3
I enjoy two aspects of this -
1. Figuring out what the overall is composed of by looking hard
2. Rendering with limited power available in CSS (no photoshop ninja here)
And sometimes I animate them too - http://heldfree.com/play/dropbox/ (best viewed in Safari)
With these I've also found a few subtle differences between how Chrome and Safari render translucent gradients, large shadows, etc.
This is a somewhat rewarding but an entertaining thing to do :)
On significantly large projects, the compass compiler can take a lot more time than lessc. Eg. Sencha Touch's sass based styling.
Congrats! I love it when money making geeks share revenue numbers.
Monokai is popular choice for many initially, it looks good but hurts eyes. Solarized on the other hand seems to lack contrasts at times.
After spending a great amount of time in 'Merbivore Soft', then 'Made of Code' last year, I've fallen in love with 'Tomorrow' - ST2 & XCode. Mostly for the vibrant colors and pleasant contrast. Clojure too looks very nice in this.
Coal Graal is another nice theme - http://goo.gl/fH9rP http://goo.gl/4nCHk
If it's related to data crunching / classification / recommendation / ml , do take a look at
http://kaggle.com
Good luck! Doing contract work as a web/app developer brings in good money (depending on what your expenses are), and also leaves free time (depending on what you charge hourly).
I'm trying the same since July. One of the important lessons I learnt on the way - be super-serious about organising your time. July & half of August flew away in a jiffy as I was trying to do/learn too many (mostly new) things at the same time. I'm trying to form habits around the way I spend time, not letting new ideas distract me on a daily basis.
You've been working in a jungle of roles for 8 years, bet that bit wont be hard. Good luck again :)
http://instasync.me - downloads all your instagram photos
- about $200 every month.
- expecting it to rise (pricing changes)
Looking at a few longer lists below, I think I've just started!
We haven't released to public yet, still counting sign-ups.
Yet to launch, you should hit 'Sign me up' towards end of the page at
http://bodshots.herokuapp.com/ and we'll let you know when we do. We're considering a name change as 'bodshots' really comes bad in google search (specially image search) :P
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ideamonk on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @03:24PM
from the bodshots.herokuapp.com dept.
"Either I'm a cofounder, or I'm a freelancer" - +1 . I've started following this recently, it really keeps things simple and weeds off any chances of misbalance between 'your perception about your role' and 'their perception of your role' in the company.
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ideamonk on Friday August 10, 2012 @02:29PM
from the apify.heroku.com dept.
Nice effort. Having tried RescueTime and more crazy tools last year, I realized it's in the doing. If you enjoy it nothing can distract you. If you really don't enjoy it from inside (i.e. if your ends are not aligned with the going), nothing can help you. It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Spending 3 days on that = lesser distractions for long time.
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ideamonk on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:38AM
from the show-hn dept.
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ideamonk on Friday April 27, 2012 @12:26AM
from the instagr.am dept.
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ideamonk on Monday April 23, 2012 @12:53PM
from the cssdeck.com dept.
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ideamonk on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @05:49PM
from the vimeo.com dept.
Not if you use routes properly. I've been able to get the browser back and device back button on android work right for my work.
On "feeling fast enough", let's pick a jquery mobile case, I tried http://www.jqmgallery.com/2012/02/11/sharksfrenzy/ on galaxy s2 (dual core, etc) and iPhone 4s. The list (notice its translucent, and overly decorated) scrolls like snail on the android phone. While it flows very smoothly on iPhone 4s.
A similar list would do better than that on Android if done in Sencha Touch 2.
Well just remember, you're building your homes inside the browsers, the day Android fucks up or the day apple announces a radical change to their browsers, it might affect everyone. Well for all good reasons everyone has an incentive to improve their browsers so far.
Performance on iOS is superb. Performance on Android is workable - I test regularly on Desire HD and Galaxy S2. Without animations android performance is really usable, even in a heavy app like mine (shit loads of decorations, 3k js)