It’s unfortunate that a ‘climate of sensitivity’ was enforced so heavy-handedly. It’s unfortunate so many other players had to get involved to re-establish common sense. Especially at a campus that – at least when I was there – had gun lockers in the dorms for students. I trust the administration and police will be more […]
Category: General
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.
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.”
how to install fontforge on os x lion
After losing the fight with a native build-from-source multiple times, my currently recommended method of installing fontforge on the Mac OS X Lion is: brew install fontforge sudo brew link fontforge Update: 23 January 2012 Austin Sabel emailed, “I was having trouble getting an old cairo font document working in Lion. This saved me. However […]
What Color is Your Couch?
There are 2 couches in my house. One is a dark chocolate brown and the other is a light beige-y/tan. So, I found it interesting that I bumped into these 2 logos today. Not that there’s any confusion between these two services. More an observation on the popularity of red couches.
Double Plus UnGood
“Too many companies lack the creativity to see ways to expand the users’ universe. Instead they are trying to shrink it.” – Dave Winer