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andrebalza1

90 karma · joined July 23, 2013

does things. Not exactly a chatty guy.
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andrebalza1··on The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers
There's an osx screen saver picking the same video feeds:

  brew cask install aerial
andrebalza1··on Why use www?
Opera mini does its job, and approaches QR codes the right way, being an input alternative to the keyboard reachable from the omnibox
andrebalza1··on Flash, HTML5 and Open Web Standards
I would expect a DRM-compliant video component in it
andrebalza1··on Atomic Design using Sketch
Useful approach. There's still a missing link for a perfect workflow: being able to export the CSS properties generated this way into a pre/postprocessor framework (bootstrap, zurb etc) instead of overriding the resulting CSS.

A note to the author, and a wish: please stop abusing the term unicorn just for the sake of having catchy trendy titles, unless there is a meaning in "the unicorn workflow" I'm not aware of.

andrebalza1··on WordPress now runs a quarter of the web
V2 Api (http://v2.wp-api.org) will be merged into wordpress 4.4 core, planned for december 2015
andrebalza1··on How Capicola Became Gabagool – The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
Italian living in Finland here. I second the theories presented in this article. I'm also recognising in my family the progressive mingling of Italian words with the totally unrelated structures of the weird ugro-finnish language.

>For whatever reason, foods and curse words linger longer in a disrupted language. My take on this is that very private situations (family dinners, arguments) create a humorous or angry context that stimulates and reinforces the use of this words. Regarding mashups: I can mention the italian polpetta (meatball) becoming "polpettat" (singular) and "polpetteja" (plural)

andrebalza1··on GammaThingy – Open Source f.lux for your iPhone
Opera Mini browser has a night mode too, it dims screen and lowers temperature.Works excellent. Feel free to add to the list
andrebalza1··on How I cracked NQ Vault's “encryption”
NQ Mobile is not really new to some sloppy ethics.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/10/24/nq-mobi...

link to original muddywaters research: http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...

andrebalza1··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Kim Jong Un chooses an Italian education provider to have a course about freedom of the press

https://youtu.be/d_vit8ZRHx8

andrebalza1··on Ask HN: Multisite or plugins for a multi-lang WP setup?
I have both experience in wp multisite and in the wpmu commercial plugin. Multisite adds >400ms latency to the whole system, which you can overcome only by adding some solid server-level caching system. Wpmu doesn't slow down as much, and it can give you some nice added features like translation management. You can "translate" pretty much everything, including images and css. The url structure you need is available out of the box. I never tested alternative plugins.