The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

via IMDB

Put these settings in your .bashrc or .bash_profile

export COLOR_NC='\033[0m' # No Color
export COLOR_WHITE='\033[1;37m'
export COLOR_BLACK='\033[0;30m'
export COLOR_BLUE='\033[0;34m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE='\033[1;34m'
export COLOR_GREEN='\033[0;32m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_GREEN='\033[1;32m'
export COLOR_CYAN='\033[0;36m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_CYAN='\033[1;36m'
export COLOR_RED='\033[0;31m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_RED='\033[1;31m'
export COLOR_PURPLE='\033[0;35m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_PURPLE='\033[1;35m'
export COLOR_BROWN='\033[0;33m'
export COLOR_YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
export COLOR_GRAY='\033[1;30m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_GRAY='\033[0;37m'

Specify your shell to display time and current folder with home abbreviated as ~

export PS1="[\[${COLOR_LIGHT_RED}\]\T\[${COLOR_NC}\]][ \[${COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE}\]\w \[${COLOR_NC}\]] \[${COLOR_PURPLE}\]> \[${COLOR_NC}\]"

via Todd Werth

via Colin Rich on Vimeo

In our culture we’ve been trained for individual differences to stand out so you look at each person and the immediate thought is brighter, dumber, richer older, younger, poorer and we make all these dimensional distinctions and put them into categories and treat them that way. We get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves as just separate. One of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you and not different from you and experiencing the fact that which is essence in you and which is essence in me is indeed one and that there is no other. It is all one.
Zeitgeist

via TSO Photography

Think of any major website, even the fancy Web 2.HTML5 ones… do they have version numbers? We took the same approach to our client software as an online web service. That is… we treat releases as a means of getting features out to users and not goals in and of themselves. It’s about flow

via Chrome Blog

What’s true for low-interest disposable consumer goods is even more true for websites and web applications. As creators, it’s our job to fashion experiences that gently tug at the heart or lightly tickle the pleasure centers, lingering in the mind and quietly demanding reengagement. Good enough is not good enough, unless we want our web products to sit on the cyber-shelf, gathering digital dust.
Jeffrey Zeldman

via Cognition

It’s not just developers that are bad with estimates either. Everyone at some point is just winging it because it’s something they’ve never done before and won’t be able to successfully make a judgement until they have.

Via PatchSpace

When you work with the Chaos Monkey, you quickly learn that everything happens for a reason. Except for those things which happen completely randomly. And that’s why, even though it sounds crazy, even though it sounds crazy, the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly.

via CodingHorror

Cameras help me translate interpret and understand what I see. It’s a simple act that keeps me grinning via Astray Films on Vimeo

The conscious mind gives us one way of making sense of our environment. But the unconscious mind gives us other, more supple ways. The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I.Q. It allows us to tell a different sort of success story, an inner story to go along with the conventional surface one

via The NewYorker

Heat the oil on medium
Add garlic and let it brown for 2 minutes
Add the Celery and the salts
Cook until it reduces for 7-10 mins
Add the soy sauce and let it cook for 2-3 mins

Groundbreaking design doesn’t come through statistical regression testing, metrics, and causality. It comes from the richness of a biased perspective on the world.
John Kolko

via Fast Code Design

So it’s not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It’s that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They’ll go down in the same order.
Douglas Rushkoff

via CNN

If you want to design table lamps and dribbly teapots, keep churning out this hogwash. If you want to change the world, start designing with your brain, not your felt tip pens. The world is full of vital, urgent, life-or-death design problems, but they need substance, not style.

Via tumble.unwieldy

Fragmentation on the device side is not a huge problem, but Steve is absolutely right when he says that there are more challenges for developers when working with Android. But that’s fine, developers will figure out how to work any given ecosystem and as long as it doesn’t cause physical pain, it’s ok;-) Nobody else will be able to build what Apple has built, there just isn’t that kind of market power out there.

That doesn’t mean that model is superior, it’s just important to understand that Apple is Apple and Google is Google. Different. And developers need to understand that. Different business models for different ecosystems. And wouldn’t forget about Nokia and MeeGo either, new leadership always tends to shake things up and create opportunity. And HP-Palm. And RIM. And even Microsoft. It’s a fragmented world.

– Peter Vesterbacka (Rovio)

Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It’s got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that’s all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn’t expect the storm would last as long as it has.
Shawshank Redemption

::-webkit-scrollbar {
  background: #303030;
  border: 1px solid #292929;
  height: 8px;
  width: 8px;
}

Via : Webkit Blog

ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail
- Donald Knuth

1. Writing the code is the easy part. Writing it so someone else can understand it later is the important part.
2. Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast.

Via The Fishbowl

Macports is so 1995

Install Homebrew, a much better alternative to macports

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"

Install Node.js and NPM

npm (Node Package Manager) is a nifty little tool to manage node packages

brew install node
brew install npm
export NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node"

That’ll do it’s thing and voila!, you now have node installed. To quickly test if this is working create a file called test.js. In the file paste the following contents

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');

Now run and you should be able to hit
http://127.0.0.1:8124/ to view the results

node test.js

A few more packages to play with while you experiment:

npm install expressjs

npm install jsdom

npm install yui3

npm install yql

buddhabrot:

“Magma from the mantle intruded the deep crust and cooled slowly. Pyroxene and olivine started to crystallize from the magma. Since these where heavier than the surrounding magma, they sank to the bottom of the magma chamber where they became layered. Later, the remaining melt intruded higher levels of the continental crust, where it cooled and crystallised as tønsbergite, larvikite or lardalite. Some million years later the rock was carved and polished by glaciers during the ice age.” via