ideamonk

Interesting opinions, you might enjoy testing the strong-hold in winds of an anti-depressant related discussion - https://player.fm/series/philosophy-for-our-times/e123-minds...

SpaceX has admirably ambitious goals. While cheering/hating is of negligible value, it doesn't hurt to broaden one's view about NewSpace.

Ref: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ffc-12-in_elon_we_trust

From history - KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov talks about normalisation in context of subversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g (1983, LA)

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"

You may also find this useful - "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" - http://www.analogindustries.com/b1764/

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.

I just printed a super-mini version of 'one thing' for my home office - http://i.imgur.com/3oa6a.jpg (single founder edition) . Grab original here - http://heldfree.com/one-thing.png

The text shape can also easily be wrapped over a tall whiskey bottle :)

iOS can seem vast. If you know Ruby, http://rubymotion-tutorial.com is a must see. I'm finding the ecosystem around Rubymotion to be more productive.

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!

For those impatiently interested in something like this, checkout - http://bodylog.com/

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

"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.

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.

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)

Yup it was a joyful evening :) We were just talking about some core issues with our apps and poof! there comes the tweet announcing the release. They've been rolling out updates pretty fast when you look at Beta1,2,3 and RC1,2 dates.

Bloated - yes a bit. I tried doing a custom build removing classes I didn't need manually, I could go down about 220KB and still have my app run. Similar things can be done to the css. It would be great if their jsbuilder could also pick and reject used/unused sencha classes to produce optimal build.

Choice of sencha touch also depends on where the majority of your user base lives. If I've to deliver something to India, 300KB in a webapp would be impossible given the great connectivity over phones here.

Poorly documented - well not exactly, in fact they've made a great effort to produce useful guides. API docs let your own add comments within the docs too.

Themeing - delightful, I get great control over how my app looks. I've built a nice abstraction atop their scss code that enables me to produce new themes for my app with 10-15 lines of code and deliver it to new customers. Thx to scss/compass.

Frequency of Pain in the Ass while working with it for 2+ months - very less compared to most other frameworks.

Amount of code you write over about the 300KB - quite less, unless your UI is completely completely different (mine is).

Integrating with your backend's APIs - smooth as silk, thanks to the awesome data store and model classes. They've been there since 1.1. They've been there since pre-backbone era.

Now they've got scaffolding tools to produce skeletons too, in case you were confused about the MVC approach which was unclear for quite some time. Studying examples helps a lot. My app has become too heavy - 20+ views, 15+ custom UI components, 8+ stores, 20+ controllers. Their MVC & the new class system results in a very maintainable code. Though I'm in the phase of re-architecturing my app and implement a view cache as seen in kitchen sink. I also feel putting in many sencha classes is heavy, I plan to reduce the views and controllers as much as possible. Our initial UI was done by a graphic designer in photoshop, it didn't care much about sencha touch's existing components. In turn trying to replicate the photoshop work as much as possible, has also resulted in some slow performance (translucent backdrops, shadows)

I'm heading on for a re-write with performance in mind. Been using sencha touch 2 right from alphas in Nov/Dec AFAIR. It's gone through some really sweet changes from 1.1. Kudos to sencha team for knowing what exactly their user-base needs.

My app doesn't need native capabilities as of now. I'd stick to their native packaging tools - zero learning.

See towards the end - http://vimeo.com/37974749 . The Ext.device.[Camera,Device,Connection,Geolocation,Notification,Orientation] APIs support both Phonegap and their own native packager.

He probably meant 5/3

I get to hear about how stupid I was to reject a regular job at a bigco from my dad. We've an agreement for an year, where I get to try out all unconventional ways to make money(startups, freelancing, indie game-dev,etc). Everytime he comes up with a phrase starting with "you should have...", I offer to add another month to the one year promise :-)

Since I work with a remote programmer from home, this becomes quite a distraction when dad's on a vacation.

If one could monitor number of ctrl+f or cmd+f hits, it could probably indicate how difficult was it to locate content on the page.