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iwaffles

90 karma · joined June 21, 2011

Lived in a toy room. Former Apple software engineer, CTO of Sidestep, engineer at Brightroll/Yahoo and various other tech companies.

hi@mattgardner.com

Currently accepting new work!

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iwaffles··on The science of how temperature and lighting impacts our productivity
Very fascinating stuff here. I'm a huge fan of natural light. I tend to feel less stressed out and work better with natural light than artificial light. I wonder if anyone feels opposite.
iwaffles··on CSS 3D Clouds
This is very well done. I especially love the Michael Bay option.
iwaffles··on I’m Sick of Tiny, Tiny Type
I think it's important to know who your audience is. Your design speaks to that and so should your font size.
iwaffles··on How To Rewire Your Brains for Positivity and Happiness
Great guest post by Walter Chen, the founder of iDoneThis.

I really like the shout out technique. Seems like a great way to spread the happiness and make others know that you care :)

iwaffles··on San Francisco Hacker News meetup happening this Thursday
See you guys there!
iwaffles··on Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes
Parse is no longer 100% mobile focused: https://www.parse.com/osx

Parse is moving onto Heroku's turf as well as Heroku is moving onto Parse's.

iwaffles··on Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes
This seems like a really easy way for iOS developers to build/prototype apps with a cloud backend.

Is there any security to this or is it just good for prototyping? What's to stop me from requesting user accounts with passwords?

iwaffles··on Why geeks and nerds are worth it...
Bullet point 2 means this girl must be single. She's using some weird character for a single quote. Probably copied from Word or something.
iwaffles··on An open letter to Tim Cook and Jony Ive
Did they get lazy or do they not want people to actually redeem free content easily? It's a bit of a pain to mash all those random characters, not to mention the fact that the redeem button is all the way at the bottom of the app.
iwaffles··on ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia
It looks like you're writing a comment. Would you like help?
iwaffles··on Learn to code. Get a job.
Get a job you bum!

It's actually a pretty good idea. I wonder if it's more thorough than what a university's career services office can offer.

I'd be interested in finding out the success rates. Connections are good, but will they accept you and will you be good enough? That's the challenge and there doesn't seem to be any guarantee.

iwaffles··on Optimizely Surpasses Omniture Test&Target
That's pretty exciting. I've been using the service for a few new projects and I'm pretty happy with it. Congrats guys!
iwaffles··on Help me, my valley is being overtaken by frat boys
Well that's certainly an interesting photo. One man shaving another man's back in a reality show about entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

I live out here and I wonder if I'll see any of them around. Now all they need is a Snookie (Or Snickers or whatever her name is).

Why I'm ok with the influx: better economy for local businesses (hopefully).

iwaffles··on Privacyfix - Lock down your privacy
This looks really handy for those on multiple websites. I like how it works with more than just Facebook and Google.
iwaffles··on Ask HN: Do the app stores provide statistical data about who downloads your app?
Hello, iOS developer here.

Some of the data I'm able to see contains location (Country). I don't know much more than that, however, there may be tools that you can build into your app to discover such data (if you do this, please let the user opt-in).

This article may be of help: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/tracking-the-success-o... - I personally use AppViz which makes viewing data much more convenient.

iwaffles··on We Interviewed the Most Hated Man on the Internet
There was also an article about him in the latest issue of Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/latestissue which is unfortunately paywalled.
iwaffles··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in California - traveling often)

I build web applications (usually Ruby on Rails & PHP) and iOS applications.

Website: http://mattg.me

iwaffles··on Command Return for Web Developers and Users Alike
I built this because I really want other web apps to support command+enter for submitting things such as Twitter's new tweet view.
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