brianwillis

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OS X Command Line Utilities(mitchchn.me)
567 points by brianwillis 12y ago|235 comments
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I'm fascinated by the dotted countdown clock at the bottom of the page. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was, and I got lost in Wikipedia reading about how braille is represented in unicode, thinking it had something to
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by brianwillis 13y ago
The best example I can think of is this ad for the original iPhone back in 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=37f... I don't think I've ever seen a phone advertised by just showing
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Sports are fun, man. No, winning is fun.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I agree with Gruber's central argument that innovation happens in small incremental steps, and I don't in any way think that 2013 was a waste of time, but you've got to admit that this has been a light year for Apple. Between
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by brianwillis 13y ago
It should go without saying that I'm incredibly jealous fibre isn't available in my part of the country.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Apologies for our second-rate internet connections. Hopefully we'll see > 5 Mbps download speeds to residential buildings within my lifetime.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Be warned: if you type like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffBHGpIRZE ...people will know that you're faking it.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
And believe it or not, some people do not use, like, or trust Facebook or Twitter. Yup, I'm one of those people. I don't use Facebook, and it's unreasonable to expect me to sign up for a Facebook account so that I can use y
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On Running a Conference(medium.com)
2 points by brianwillis 13y ago|0 comments
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Every generation has its war. My forefathers fought the great war of emacs and vi in the 1980s. Those were dark times, which many still refuse to speak of. When I think of the horrifying atrocities committed by both sides, the snarky BBS po
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I've played with the beta, and it's pretty neat being able to have what almost feels like a desktop quality experience in a browser. It does have a bit of an iOS 6 feel to it with gradients and drop shadows, which is surprising.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Much like email, Twitter becomes noisier than it is useful if if it has too great a presence in your life. The root of the problem is the volume of people that you're following, so I'd start there.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Before drawing any conclusions from this, I recommend reading Gabriel Weinberg's response in the comment section. I felt considerably better after reading it.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Getting too obsessed with this can paralyze you though. It's clear to me how cringe worthy some of my earlier work is, and that leads me to think that I'll feel the same way in a few years time about the work I'm doing now. T
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I use an iPhone 4 and Macbook Air as my main devices. One of the first comments on the Ars Technica page is "you're holding it wrong". It's a predictable joke, but I'll begrudgingly admit that I laughed.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
This is a fantastic idea, and I wish other services (I'm looking at you Twitter) would follow suit. Your Yahoo ID becomes a part of your identity when using their service, so it seems reasonable that people will feel happier and be mor
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by brianwillis 13y ago
You might find the genius lists go some of the way toward solving this problem for you. They try show things you're likely to be interested in, and don't show stuff you already own.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
It certainly has been odd watching Apple this year. Normally the company announces something significant every few months, but in 2013 they've gone (almost) completely silent. The last product release of note was the 2012 iMac, which w
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by brianwillis 13y ago
While we're at it, how about being able to AirDrop files between Macs and iOS devices? I'd love to be able to send a video to my iPad without dealing with iTunes. I also want world peace, m&ms for breakfast, and a pony.
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by brianwillis 13y ago
My experience with the iPhone app has been pretty bad. Functionally it's passable, but from a design/presentation/aesthetic perspective it's just plain bad. The hamburger-button menu which slides in from the left overlaps the content, but t
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by brianwillis 13y ago
Sure, your web app might feel instantaneous when your server is sitting across the LAN, but many users have crappy Internet connections, or are downloading a Torrent, or are living in New Zealand... Yup. New Zealand's internet speeds are
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I felt the same way about Wikipedia at first. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit? What could possibly go wrong? I thought Twitter was a solution looking for a problem too. Interestingly, Twitter's usefulness (at least for me) stems from
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by brianwillis 13y ago
I'm hoping that when Marco says "I've sold a majority stake" he doesn't mean "I've sold everything". I'm a big Instapaper fan, and I'd hate to see someone else take over deciding the direction the service should move in. A big part of Insta
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by brianwillis 13y ago
...and yet every permutation of "Brian Willis" is taken. Many of which are spam accounts which twitter seems completely uninterested in killing off.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
It looks like I'll be sticking with Fever[1]. The assigning-temperatures-to-posts thing seemed like a gimmick at first, but it actually works somewhat well, and you can ignore it if you want to. It also syncs with Reeder[2] on the iPhone/iP
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I like to run my email on my server, but it’s a significant undertaking and I don’t recommend you do that. I agree with Ben on this point, but don't really understand why things are this way. In looking for a replacement for Google Reader
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by brianwillis 14y ago
This is fantastic advice. Being small can be an asset, yet it's often treated as a liability. Sure, there are some things your company can't do because you don't have as much cash in the bank as Google, but there are some things your compan
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by brianwillis 14y ago
The tipping point for me was Twitter's increasingly hostile approach to third party devs. I've been racking my brain trying to think of the first service that I used regularly that was shut down. Pownce maybe? (anyone else remember that?).
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by brianwillis 14y ago
The full feed is essential. I have a handful of subscriptions that require me to click through to the site, and while I understand why an ad supported site needs to do that, it's still incredibly annoying. This is especially true on a smart

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