Artist Jorge Colombo drew the image that graces the June 1st cover of The New Yorker magazine with Brushes, a $4.99 iPhone app. Virtually “finger-painting” an image like this ont... Read more
I’ve got my own pie chart of how I want to spend my time, so it was fun to hear that Jim Collins, author of bestselling book Good to Great, also has a similar breakdown, pictured right... Read more
Over at Lifehacker this morning I had the chance to do a navel-gazing tour through my laptop bag and show off all the stuff I take with me when I travel. The only truly unusual item I carry... Read more
A neat new Gmail Labs feature can translate email in another language to your native tongue. That’s cool, but when it comes to foreign languages, what Gmail really needs is the ability... Read more
Seems a foregone conclusion that Google’s the best search engine on the web, but at this point, there’s not that much of a gap between the second-place engine, Yahoo, and the big... Read more
Once you get past a simple to-do list and start getting into the heavy-lifting of complex team projects, it’s time to look into project management software. My only memories of my proj... Read more
What’s the unemployment rate of San Diego versus New York? How many football fields would fit between the Earth and the sun? What’s the likelihood of getting two heads in 10 coin... Read more
Emailing a group of people to find out the best time to schedule a meeting or event is probably the least efficient way to do so; inevitably you start a long thread of “This time works... Read more
My MacBook Pro has taken a beating lately: it’s been across the country and back, staying awake all night running hourly cron jobs, acting as my media center and development web server... Read more
Everyone loves free software, and it’s less about principles and more about the practicality of not having to take out the credit card. So what great software packages are people willi... Read more
Three years ago today I released my first shell script (that was more than a dozen lines). The script, todo.sh, made adding items to a todo.txt file and marking them “done” a qui... Read more
Been obsessed with the idea of charting personal metrics lately, things like how much water I drink per day, exercise I get per month, and miles I’ve traveled by airplane this year. Ov... Read more
People who don’t live their lives online like I do often ask me: How can I make it easy for people to find me on the web? While before I might have suggested Facebook, LinkedIn, or jus... Read more
Over the last few months my programmer self has gotten sucked into a full-on love affair with source version control system Git and a Git host, GitHub. Explaining Git to non-coder humans is... Read more
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