mcrider

I swear I've never seen a warning for this or the Location API change.. And I have my console open always. Are the warnings only in Canary? I develop in Chrome stable.

I'm generally okay with this, but it broke one of my sites and is the second time in recent months that Chrome has made a sweeping, possibly breaking change with its browser with basically zero warning (the other blocking location API requests over non-SSL connections). Not a fan of a browser vendor making these decisions with what AFAICT little consultation with standards bodies.

Same boat. Everything beyond GitX has too much clutter.. This is basically Gitx with tabs which is all I ever wanted :)

I get this error page pretty frequently from my office -- but its possible they turned down the threshold in case of an attack.

I used to work for the Public Knowledge Project (https://pkp.sfu.ca/) which has been directly impacting the Open Access movement for years. Not a sexy startup, but they have great reach and have helped many academics publish research papers openly since the early 2000's.

In the cities I've lived in, there have been quite a few hackathons put together with other industries such as Hacks & Hackers (Journalists and devs) and Music-related hackathons. Take a look on meetup.com, there are probably tons of other types.

Check out Cushion App: http://cushionapp.com/. I don't use it, but I follow his blog and he has some very thoughtful posts on design.

This looks great! I've been on the hunt for a good CMS-as-a-service and have been a bit disappointed by the current options. Does fieldbook handle image uploads? Any other caveats for using this as a full-blown CMS?

Do you have an example gulpfile that uses devd? I've had a lot of trouble getting connect + nodemon to work well together and would love a better solution.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1367/

One tip to save a bit of time: Most browsers have plugins that let you automatically send a magnet link to your remote transmission daemon when clicked on (the chrome plugin also shows your transmission activity in a popover).

Very interesting, I never really noticed the scripts section in package.json. I realize its all the same underneath, but does this give you the same speed benefits as Gulp? Or do gulp's streams (which I admit to having a loose understanding of) manage everything for your in a more performant way?

I agree with you; The semantic web has a real use case in defining a consistent way of organizing knowledge in the many disparate APIs that developers work with. I think as we build and consume APIs more and more, designing them in an ad-hoc manner will become more of a chore.

I recently wrote an article touching this subject and how standardized APIs will be a boon to integrating web content in non-standard interfaces, but truth be told i'm secretly a 'semanticist' and have always been excited about the possibilities SW can produce: https://medium.com/@mcriddy/semantic-web-design-92ef35f66c9f

We don't necessarily need AI, we just need APIs to be standardized so everything knows how to interface with them. This is IMO the killer app for the Semantic Web (I just wrote an article on this: https://medium.com/@mcriddy/semantic-web-design-92ef35f66c9f).

Two monitors -- So you can keep your editor and browser in view at the same time :)

A streaming podcast webapp called flapcast.com. It uses a CodeIgniter backend and I just can't bring myself to write PHP anymore.

Would love a UI for this and an editor -- I still use TextWrangler/BBEdit daily to grep large chunks of source code and then edit in place (e.g. for refactoring). Just getting the search results requires opening up each file individually then editing, which is just too slow.

What is your experience with recruiters like? I'm about to move to a new city and got hooked up with a recruiter through a friend. He seems very well connected and professional but I'm a little nervous about putting my job prospects in his hands. Anything I should be wary of?

As someone currently helping to build an airline website, I'll just point out that the booking process, and other processes concerning the interaction with actual flight data, are controlled by a few organizations (global distribution systems) that have access to this data and our hampered with bureaucratic workflows. The airline itself might be able to hire great designers and developers to build out the informational side of their site, but the actual booking process has to contend with a slew of regulations (and IMO are poorly run and horribly old school) to connect customers to booking and seat picking services. It is very hard to innovate in this area.

Couldn't you make the keys transparent and put the IR sensors below them?

Github can generate project pages for you with a few different layouts. Nothing fancy but a decent enough design with almost no effort: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-pages-with-the-aut...

Ah right, I remember reading about you guys a couple of years ago. Glad to hear of your success! I used to work for the Public Knowledge Project and I think we learned a thing or two from your companies' attention to UX and design.

What is your startup? I used to work in the same space (albeit for a non-profit).

Because its fully managed. Can't say for sure if its worth it, but I have heard good things about them.

Try Gossamer Threads (https://gt.net/). What are your reasons for not using Linode or DIgitalOcean anyway -- do you work for a university library or other public institution?

I'm looking forward to a more stable API. I think a lot of things are solidified by this 0.8.0 release, but working up to it I've had to deal with a lot of upstream changes that forced me to refactor a lot of code. Of course, its all in the name of progress and the Meteor community is super helpful and friendly, so no big whoop.

This is the first I've heard of Meteor APM, looks awesome!

This line confused me:

> Using simpler queries will usually mean there’s less work for Meteor to do to decide if a change affects it.

Is this right? Previous Meteor optimization articles I've read have stated the opposite, and all my years of database development have told me to avoid 'SELECT *' and other simple DB calls like the plague. But maybe I missed something in the article that explains this.

Thanks Tom and Sacha for your great contributions to the Meteor community!

Well why can't we go further? We have the technology for self-driving cars, and public transportation that doesn't suck, but for a multitude of reasons we don't utilize this. And beautiful living spaces really is a superficial reason to want cars to go away -- definitely secondary to (if you reread my OP) the financial, environmental, and mental burdens of driving, as well as the countless deaths caused by drivers every year.

Thanks for being patronizing, however I grew up in the country outside of (coincidentally) Philadelphia and understand owning and driving automobiles is necessary e.g. when you live on a farm. I don't think anyone would ever be against that considering there are no other options. It was pretty clear that I was talking about cities, and why would you not want your environment to be beautiful and healthy?

I've lived in Honolulu for a couple years, and IMO its a shining example of bad infrastructure. The public transport is quite a bad actually and efforts to build a rail system have been constantly delayed by corruption, NIMBYs, and bureaucracy. People rent cars so they can access the rest of the island because otherwise its impossible. Its not just American tourists either, a huge portion of the tourist population is Japanese or Canadian.

But at the same time the locals seem to really love driving. Every household has at least one car and traffic is often rated as bad or worse than LA. For a place that you would think would be ecologically responsible (and a great test bed for transportation technology, as its such a well-isolated location), the car culture hear is so ingrained that I think it would take some major deterrents to get people to stop driving.