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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Introducing Typerighter.com – The Minimalist Writing on All Your Devices
“the perfect web based writing tool.” – Patrick Rhone On any given day, I’ll be interacting with 4-6 different internet-enabled devices (multiple laptops, a handheld, a couple of tablets) the only quality they share is a decent browser and I wanted a fast, simple way to update my writing across all of them. All the …
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Unblaze
“But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: We stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are.”- Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes
Bottoms up product management
“Much of what made Twitter useful in the first place – Hashtags, @user and many other little Twitter specific conventions are hacks that were first adopted by users because Twitter didn’t support several key functions like groups or addressing a note to a specific user. Twitter has made the colossal mistake of trying to integrate …
My Favorite Sentences of the Day
“The beggars huddle for warmth within things called ‘industries’” – Richard Fink “If every additional user is putting money in the developers’ pockets, then you’re less likely to see the site disappear overnight.” – maciej
A Sure Sign of Goodness
I just notice two things: I haven’t written here in a while My browsers’ URL autocomplete for ‘garr’ defaults to the sub-domain of a mostly unannounced project I’m very excited about.
Boyd’s Annual Opt Out
“While I’m away, my lovely procmail file (aka “filtering software”) will direct all of my email to /dev/null (aka “the permanent trash”). I will not be reachable. The only person that I stay in contact with while I’m gone is my mother because it’s just too cruel to my mom to disappear entirely. Twitter and …
Less Anger and Garlic
“You can try them out on their website or if you have NotePad just make an HTML page and put like a big textarea in it and that will give you a taste of what [they] do.” – Joel Spolsky On a related note – my next project is targeting left-handed squirrels. Even better: “You …
What Matters
“What’s ‘small stuff?’ Roughly, work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary.” – Paul Graham “Meaning: When deciding whether to commit to something, if I feel anything less than, “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” – then my answer is no.”
Amazon Fire – First Impressions
tl;dr – Yes, this is The Holiday Gift of 2011. For all the hype – this is easily the best tablet I’ve played with in a decade. From the unboxing experience (less than 5 minutes from delivery to browsing my ebook library) to getting comfortable and settling in. Amazon has: minimized all the parts of …