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I ve been experimenting with Tumblr for a little while without telling anyone. I m posting more frequently over there these days: This too will 404 (joemaller.tumblr.com)Whatever I find interesting, funny, inspiring, worth remembering or sharing. tech, noted (dotjoe.tumblr.com)Technology related stuff, nerdery, interesting projects, techniques, code, etc.
In a few days I ll be running my second New York Marathon. This is the third marathon I ve trained for, I was supposed to run in 2012, but that one was cancelled after Hurricane Sandy. This year I feel really well prepared, strong, health and confident that I ll be able to beat my previous time. [ ]
The Angular 2.0 preview roadmap was recently posted to HN and after reading it, I m starting to think adopting Angular might have been a mistake. Having built a few small projects with AngularJS, I ve found the framework a pleasure to work with. Once past the initial learning curve, features started flying together. Most of my [ ]
Since I switched a few months ago, Vagrant has been humming along nicely, spinning up trim little Ansible-provisioned Ubuntu boxes as needed. Since I m using Virtual Box as the provider and shared folders barely work with more than a handful of files, my active projects are made available as NFS share points. Running on OS [ ]
OMG. A. I trust Neil deGrasse Tyson B. My kids will be strapped to the sofa for this. I remember watching the original with my dad. I hope this sequel is every bit as unabashedly hokey and fascinating as the original. iTunes? Put Vangelis on repeat.
I wrote about problems downloading web fonts for desktop use when Google s Web Fonts debuted, but years later it s still an issue. There s no way to anticipate the twists and turns a creative project will take. Designers should be free to play and experiment with typefaces without worrying about running out of time or exceeding [ ]
This morning I had a nice breakfast with a friend where various workflow and technology advances came up. This is really an email to him, but I thought it was worth sharing. Composer and Packagist for PHP Composer is a project-based dependency manager which makes it very easy to integrate PHP libraries into projects. Packagist [ ]
That moment when you realize the quickie side project has taken too long and even though it s close to done, you put it aside to deal with the tasks that have piled up behind it. Knowing the likihood of completing the side project diminishes with every moment it s left undone.