March 2008
53 posts
This guy is really brilliant; I'm glad to know... →
L'esprit de l'escalier →
nostrich:
I knew there had to be a term for this.
L’esprit d’escalier (literally, stairway wit) is a French term that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late.
I think we’ve all been there.
Aha! I’ve been trying to remember this phrase for God-knows-how-long.
February 2008
46 posts
He would. →
Let's chat!
If you’ve recently (or ever, for that matter) tried to hire a developer or other technology-oriented person but were pretty pissed with the process, I’d love to talk to you and hear your thoughts. Email me at kyle.bragger at gmail dot com. Thanks.
Tumblr Updates
Man, kudos to David and Marco; the updates they pushed out today are pretty slick.
By deleting my bookmark for Google Reader, I noticed that I check it far less than I used to, and in doing so, I find myself really processing the articles versus skimming them over. Interesting.
This is a pretty cool methodology. →
I can imagine that in forcing you to question everything, it could only serve to reinforce and commit to long-term memory what you’ve learned.
KittenAuth →
Avi Flombaum on RRW’s post about BricaBox:
Just wanted to say that the problems I was having creating content have been fixed. Had a refreshingly good conversation with Kyle from Bricabox about the problem and he quickly fixed it and deployed it. While I still think they have a long way to go, that sort of agile and modest approach to development will take them there in no time.
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I like when people post totally useless bug reports, for instance, something along the lines of “your site is really buggy.” That’s it. Sheesh.
BricaBox is live. →
I have been hard at work developing and designing this application since about June of last year. I’m proud to say we’ve finally launched.
“i want to work at the side show”
– my sister Erin
My take on a so-called single serving site →
more info here: http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/02/15080.html
“Since I didn’t know how to log in, I pretended like it didn’t exist...”
– Nate
New York Times: TimesMachine →
camh:
New York Times: TimesMachine Great interface to browse 70 years of the New York Times. Doesn’t it seem like everyone has a time machine these days?
Wow. Extremely well-done job on making this a really seamless user experience.
This is a really cool UI. →
So close...
1336 Total Registered Users
I’m doing my taxes today. Twelve bank statements, one W-2, three 1099s, and a NJ-based LLC. Wish me luck.
oh, development.
dinner = two warmed soft flour tortillas
sleep = not in sight
I’m in the home stretch.
Just uploaded revision 2^9.
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CodeIgniter has an interesting-looking AR... →
Dear internet,
Please prevent people from building any more of the following:
social networks
Twitter clones
niche wikis
anything involving the words “social”, “graph”, “open”, or any combination thereof.
Best,
Kyle
The internet is downright boring.
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Another company joins the bubble. →
Does anyone else find the term “web 2.0” to be as stomach-turning as I?
From the echo chamber of Silicon Alley... →
Huffington Post’s Fundrace (a project I was a part of way back when) got a nice writeup by Webware.
Fundrace has come leaps and bounds since then; really impressive job guys.
Snow!?
An older article from FastCompany discussing blogs... →
The point they make is a good one.
T-minus about thirty days until the formation of my new LLC is complete.
Incredible. →
“sleeveface: one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.”
I love Typography →
I wonder how many people on Tumblr never even actually read any tumblelogs outside of the context of the Dashboard.
Sub-pixel rendering nuances →
It’s good to see other people making their CSS as elite as possible.
z-index:1337; appears in the inline styles of Tumblr’s link bar (the one that you get at the top-right of the screen when viewing any tumblelog while you’re logged in).