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greyshi··on Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
Have you tried vimium? It's amazing. You can press a single key to search tabs, a single key to search history, bookmarks, and many other functionalities. Not using a mouse is also pretty easy with the link navigation feature (f by default), but even with one hand the commands are so succinct that it works well.
greyshi··on Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges
Everyone can be a VC!
greyshi··on Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges
No doubt it's simple, but it's attractive (probably largely thanks to the artwork). Not so great on my iPhone though.

And thanks, it looks like "one-page site" is what they're called.

greyshi··on Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges
That's a pretty website. I was impressed by the animations. What is the term for these kinds of slideshow-like sites?
greyshi··on Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane
"The private pilot is a dying breed."

Yes, literally.

greyshi··on “Facebook turned me down” (2009)
Seems like he was pretty qualified on paper. Stanford grad and former VP of Engineering at Yahoo. With that in mind, maybe he just had a bad set of interviews. I think this would be more meaningful if we knew the position he was going for.
greyshi··on If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014?
So... javascript, javascript frameworks, and javascript variants. I think "Javascript, Javascript, Javascript" was accurate enough. And Bootstrap is easy.
greyshi··on Amazon Prime Air
Those companies are very different from Amazon.
greyshi··on Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone
*get free jail time