Last week I saw a tweet by @jhartikainen that made my heart skip a beat! He totally raped the definition of a one liner and made something that can be beautiful only to a giant functional programming nerd. The gist that he posted looks like this: //Is this abuse of array functions? :D '20000001'.split('').reverse().join('').match(/\d{3}|\d+$/g).map(function(s){ return [...]
Last year when I was still working on my first real startup we tried to get into YCombinator because it seemed like a natural thing to do at the time. We wanted to get into the US pretty much any way possible and what better approach than going through the awesomest incubator around? Sure seems [...]
The past couple of weeks I’ve been living my life at 25 minute increments. It’s a new productivity hack I’ve been trying out … you’ve probably heard of it - pomodoro? The idea is that you should make an effort for absolute focus when you’re working. That means no twitter, no browsing random websites, just take [...]
Lifepath.me is a very simple service that gives your life a progress bar. Nothing too spectacular there, at its core, it’s really just a visualisation of some statistics data from around the world about the sort of life expectancy people have in your neck of the woods and such. I found the service by accident [...]
Over the past week and a half my life has been devoted mostly to studying for exams and absolutely killing the slaughterhouse my university calls “Making sure people learn shit”. As a result my coding fingers have been pretty itchy, but I didn’t have enough brainpower left to do anything serious. So I decided to [...]
A couple of days ago I decided it might be time to upgrade my time tracking software a little bit. I’ve been using Klok, an AIR based desktop thingy, for quite a while now and it’s getting a bit lame. Development has stopped some insanely long time ago and certain features are simply missing … [...]
This post has been brewing for the past few months. I decided to finally write it to psyche myself up for the onslaught of the exam season starting next week. A little background; a few months ago I crashed and burned doing a big swing for the fences, a startup I had been working on [...]
