There’s a seductive dark side to The Builder’s High . The high afforded us by our brain when we are productive is delicious. For me, it’s comparable to the endorphin rush after a good workout. A foul
1. “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook’s closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here’s what he said at the end of last week’s WWDC keynote : You’ve seen how our operating systems, devices, and ser
Getting great performance with parallax is tough. Here’s how to make it happen. 6 min read · May 13, 2014 -- Tldr; There are an easy handful of things you can do to get buttery parallax scroll. Check
The third major version of Sass brought a new data type called map . While you might be unfamiliar with this name, we already use maps often in other languages, usually under the names of associative
Last year the digital agency I work for, Bluecadet , started a website redesign project for The Franklin Institute —a renowned Philadelphia science museum undergoing the largest expansion in its histo
Dreams really do come true. That’s the mantra I kept repeating to myself as I watched this year’s WWDC Keynote. Make no mistake: this was a historic keynote. It’s hard to overstate what Apple did toda
Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite Posted on Mon 2nd June, 2014 As some of you know, Apple announced its next operating system, OS X 10.10 Yosemite today. A few users have voiced concerns that Spotlight i
Craig Federighi, senior VP of software engineering, delivered most of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. | Photos by Andy Ihnatko I can’t think of a single Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that was more exciting or important than the one that Apple delivered Monday. That’s the…
While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding. It was something
Once a year, Apple kicks off its World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote presentation, such as the one coming up on Monday, which I’ll be covering for Technologizer. Many people seem to think t
DISCLAIMER: This is a non-functional concept of a non-existing version of iOS built from scratch in Adobe Fireworks CS6 and rendered in Adobe After Effects CC. There is no download link or ways for yo
Idle Words > Talks > The Internet With A Human Face This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Marc [Thiele] emailed me a few weeks ago to
Editorial , Ole Zorn’s text automation tool and Markdown editor for iOS , has changed the way I work on my iPad. Combining an elegant text editing experience with a powerful workflow system based on a
This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at…
The Theory of Peak Advertising and The Future of the Web By Tim Hwang and Adi Kamdar :: October 9, 2013 This paper presents a brief theoretical and empirical grounding for the theory of Peak Advertisi
Recently I did a little side project to improve the website for a non-profit animal shelter in our town. The existing site was an outdated Microsoft FrontPage menagerie, so basically anything I did wo
Just a few days ago, the FCC voted in favor of a pretty uniformly terrible proposal to allow internet fast lanes. And throughout the 99-page proposition, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler makes one thing painf
Part 1. Gameday: Beer, bros and The Beastie Boys. ROSE: If you have a guiding principle of the WWE and Vince McMahon, it's the live event is where it happens. Give the fan his or her money's worth. Wh
If you were a kid in the 1980s or 90s, you probably spent some time reading, watching, or playing with four adolescent reptilian martial arts experts with irregular DNA. To make sure I got the scoop o
WebKit’s FTL JIT (Faster Than Light Just In Time compiler) has switched to a new backend — Bare Bones Backend (B3) replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer in the FTL JIT. Just a decade ago, JavaScrip
For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone and the late Steve Jobs’s fury when Samsung—an Apple…
Few cities have as rich a cultural and sporting history as Detroit. From the ’80s Pistons to Bob Seger, Eminem to Miguel Cabrera, the Motor City is a rich tapestry of compelling figures, unbelievable
Jene Bramel writes for Footballguys.com . You can also follow him on Twitter and reach him at bramel@footballguys.com. The second installment in this series looked at the historical evolution of the 4-3 front, from Greasy Neale, Tom Landry and Steve Owen through the A.F.L. and its Odd Front 4-3…
Middle East History The fertile crescent, the cradle of civilization World History: Patterns of Interaction The fertile crescent, the cradle of civilization If this area wasn't the birthplace of human
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Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português Imagine that you’ve been working in your job for a while. You enjoy your work, know how to do it well, and take pride in the results you pr
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