How does it feel to be the first guy at the party? It’s kind of lame. There’s nobody to talk to, lonely in the corner you sit, sipping on your drink and look with longing eyes at everyone who comes in. They know. You know they know. You were there first, you’re that loser who’s got… Read more »
Posts Categorized: The Web
Can you make a CAPTCHA to tell coders from non-coders?
Let’s say you want to launch a service. For coders, by coders. Let’s also say you want only coders. Nobody else should be able to get in. Leaving aside any “Haha, launching is _hard_! Allow everyone and tweak incentives so only coders want to join.” While essentially true, coders act differently around coders than they do around… Read more »
New Foursquare [screengrab porn]
Today Foursquare released a completely revamped version of their iPhone app. And it’s awesome. If you’re on Android you can only hope yours gets updated soon. The whole interface is just more pleasant to use, there are less buttons – less buttons is always good, even though I’m a geek – everything is less cramped… Read more »
Google+ redesigned into Facebook
Google has turned into one of those “Yeah we’re just like Facebook, but with a cleaner design and without annoying ads. Can you invest half a million dollars mister VC? kthxbai” startups. This is a company making self driving cars for fuck’s sake, they should know better! Just look at the screenshots. Related articles… Read more »
Online, real names provide anonymity
There are 845 million active users on facebook. There are 500 million twitter accounts. There are 100 million users on Google+. Of all those people only one is Swizec. Three other profiles do show up when searching for “Swizec”, but they don’t have the account name registered. Nor the domain name. In Slovenia, there are… Read more »
Three cool things
In lieu of a proper blogpost today you get three cool things, because I have to pass two exams an hour apart. 1) Arrivals Arrivals is an incredibly cool Foursquare app – probably the best I have ever seen. The idea is simple, take your foursquare data, turn your friends into aeroplanes, make an arrivals… Read more »
5 months of blog traffic in 4 days
On Thursday I published my most popular post to date Why programmers work at night. After writing I was certain it wasn’t that interesting, sure it might be HN frontpage worthy – it never got there – but other than that I felt it wasn’t a very informative post, just musings of a hacker who has… Read more »
The best $5 I have ever spent
A few days ago Louis C.K. did something truly outstanding – he released Louis CK Live at the Bacon Theater. It’s a self-produced, self-published, self-everything hour of laughter inducing madness. That’s right, you will laugh. Out loud. No, not just “lol”. I mean laugh. He also put up what is probably the best anti-pirating plea I… Read more »
Poking a sleeping giant
The first postcard is said to have appeared in 1840 – it was a hand painted design on a piece of thick paper, sent with a penny black stamp to the writer Theodore Hook. Since then not much has changed, the stock image postcards appeared in1848 as part of some sort of advertising. The modern… Read more »
Firefox’s “funny” css3 image scaling quirk
Last night as I was rewriting the CSS for postme.me from scratch and I was cursing and shouting obscenities under my breath and trying to find a way to punch all of Mozilla in the face over the internet … I discovered something silly. Scaling images is something every developer on the web has had… Read more »