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karaniwangbinatilyo: LAWS OF NATURE Simple. Nice.

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:30:55 +0100

karaniwangbinatilyo:

LAWS OF NATURE

Simple. Nice.

Was skimming Håkon Wium Lie’s thesis on CSS, and noticed...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:32:44 +0200

Was skimming Håkon Wium Lie’s thesis on CSS, and noticed this beautiful image.

Since late 2009, my personal website has mainly been an...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:53:11 +0200

Since late 2009, my personal website has mainly been an automated “attention stream,” which is:

…a collection links of gathered from Fredrik’s feeds around the web. This includes Twitter favorites, Instapaper favorites, Pinboard bookmarks, Google Reader shared items, with more sources added as needed.

It’s not that useful, but having the data feels good. Threw this together with pyplot and friends.

Public Service Announcement: Don’t buy a leather briefcase...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:57:00 +0200

Public Service Announcement: Don’t buy a leather briefcase from Tiger of Sweden.

The pictured bag is less than two years old. It has been used to transport a computer, and perhaps some books, to work and back, plus for the occasional trip. Yet, it has failed in multiple ways:

Shoulder strap metal connector snapped, sending my computer tumbling to the ground.
Bottom supporting leather was too weak and has broken (three out of four corners so far).
Front zipper often opens itself from the wrong end.
Leather thingy for main zipper broke off.

The model is still available for purchase, and casual observation suggests that it’s somewhat popular. My recommendation: don’t buy one.

(A harder PSA to come up with, however, is what to get instead…)

nostrich: This is what success looks like.

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:45:40 +0200

nostrich:

This is what success looks like.

My Presentation at World IA Day Malmö 2012

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:51:06 +0100

Speaker Deck

Started Things, the use of which I have discontinued. Phew.

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0100

Started Things, the use of which I have discontinued. Phew.

18milesperhour: IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE? …so long as you don’t...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:17:14 +0100

18milesperhour:

IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE?

…so long as you don’t dare ride a bicycle!

A hearty thanks-for-nothing to this 1950’s safety manual for scaring the bejesus out of the youth of America.

And we didn’t even include the pages about the dangers of hiding in leaf piles and flying kites. No, we’re not joking.

Critical Mass 2010, Budapest.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:08:36 +0100

Critical Mass 2010, Budapest.

The future, as predicted in 1911 by “the most learned and...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:44:27 +0100

The future, as predicted in 1911 by “the most learned and conservative minds in America.”

Little Big Details: long press on podcast to show the complete...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:29:06 +0100

Little Big Details: long press on podcast to show the complete title.

Technical Writing

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:53:55 +0100

Engineers employ technical writing, which is very different from the literary writing you learn in most English classes. Consider this passage:

    Helen, thy beuty is to me
      Like thos Nicèan barks of yore
    That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
      The weary way-worn wanderer bore
      To his own native shore.
                    
                       Edgar Allan Poe

To express these ideas in technical writing, we would simpy say

    He thinks Helen is beautiful.

As seen in an engineering textbook.

Check out the slides from SI 658 - a lot of good stuff in there!

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:56:27 +0100

Check out the slides from SI 658 - a lot of good stuff in there!

TextMate 2.0, please get released.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:32:36 +0100

TextMate 2.0, please get released.

Joys of the iOS 5 notification center: six days of rain.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:48:21 +0100

Joys of the iOS 5 notification center: six days of rain.

I thought I’d write a note proclaiming the second coming...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:23:09 +0100

I thought I’d write a note proclaiming the second coming of this blog. Hm.

Attention-Worthy, Week of 2009-09-27

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:28:28 +0200

My weekend has been focused on EuroIA, the early European information architect conference, this year held in Copenhagen. As you’d expect, I had a great time and met a lot of cool people!

A good way to start off this week’s link mania is with some impressions from the conference. Jeroen van Geel over at Johnny Holland did a good job summarizing many of the sessions; check out day 1 and day 2! Few people have had time to put their presentations online, this one, from The Architecture of Fun, is interesting.

I’ve actually had some time to collect links before the conference. Let’s continue with another set of slides, this time from SeedCamp Week in London. Startup Metrics for Pirates, expands a bit on the AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue) acronym - and uses a lot of funky colors. On the same topic is 7 Things I Learned From My Startup Failing, which talks about skill and focus as keys to success.

Some different types of research also caught my eye this week. This presentation, titled Developing and Modeling Mobile Application [PDF] is really about more than the title suggests. It describes KLM, Keystroke-Level Model, which predicts how much time it takes to execute a task. This seems to be a quite complex system, but heavily researched and empirically validated. Also about mobile is The Google App Market - An Analysis. Since I own an Android phone (and can confirm that most apps are not that good…), I find this article especially interesting.

Not related, is the fact that I found out about webcredibility.org - and the fact that it doesn’t exist anymore. The site was run by a Stanford research lab and published, among other things, guidelines for achieving credibility online. These guidelines can still be read though, thanks to archive.org. Make sure to read some of the related papers as well; I liked What Makes A Web Site Credible? A Report on a Large Quantitative Study [PDF].

I’ll finish up with two random links. First, logoblog.org goes through a list of college and university logotypes. Secondly, The story of the Gömböc is just plain weird - a shape with an apparent mind of its own.

Final note: I experimented with automatically importing my Google Reader shared item into the blog. Ultimately, I decided against it - follow my shared items here instead.

Henrique C. Alves - Keeping simple with Django

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:38:22 +0200

Henrique C. Alves - Keeping simple with Django:

Code tips of the day!

Spotify – liberation or DRM-hell?

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:38:22 +0200

Spotify – liberation or DRM-hell?:

Interesting take - and I agree. Putting all your eggs in Spotify’s basket doesn’t feel right.

swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:38:22 +0200

swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica:

It’s all in the details.