roelwillems

Stay Focused & Keep Shipping. — Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:41:00 -0500

Stay Focused & Keep Shipping.

— Mark Zuckerberg

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:24:49 -0500

““First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.””

- Epictetus

How cool; just casually taking your 27” iMac into...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:31:34 -0500

How cool; just casually taking your 27” iMac into Starbucks (via Twitter)

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:59:16 -0500

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites— they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost Americans $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

This bill will have a huge impact on the internet as we know it, and the effects will not be limited to America.. but will be felt all over the internet. Reason enough to view the video and make up your mind about what you think and could/would/should do (maybe also share this video or tell some friends).

Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:53:00 -0500

Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net:

How cool is this: the website features a 3D header (which moves) using only WebKit (CSS3) techniques and no images.

Watch on a WebKit-browser like Chrome, Safari or iPad

Visited the Vodafone website to research mobile data usage...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:00:45 -0500

Visited the Vodafone website to research mobile data usage abroad.. guess someone has tweaked their remarketing a bit to aggressive.

Coupling asynchronous scripts | High Performance Web Sites

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:26:44 -0500

Coupling asynchronous scripts | High Performance Web Sites:

Nice (older) article on how asynchronous JavaScripts work an can/should be implemented.

The basics of the article are a must read for anyone implementing the Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code and wondering what the most optimal place for the tracking code within the source code of the website is.

"The bitter taste of good quality lingers long after the sweetness of the low price is gone"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:11:05 -0500

“The bitter taste of good quality lingers long after the sweetness of the low price is gone”

- Unknown

How to make coffee when your house’s electricity is out

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:08:46 -0500

How to make coffee when your house’s electricity is out:

I guess this post is a (unintended) reality check for lifehacker.com?

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:00:05 -0500

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”

- Where is the cool

HTML5 Rocks! (Presentation)

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:26:24 -0500

HTML5 Rocks! (Presentation):

Presentation on all new possibilities with HTML5 (build with HTML5).. also interesting for those no so in to code (take a look at device orientation for instance)

"The act of typing doesn’t turn one into a writer any more than sleeping in a garage turns one into a..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:00 -0500

“The act of typing doesn’t turn one into a writer any more than sleeping in a garage turns one into a car.”

- Dave Caolo

"I didn’t fail 700 times. “I found out 700 ways, how not to make a lightbulb"

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:00:05 -0500

“I didn’t fail 700 times. “I found out 700 ways, how not to make a lightbulb”

- Thomas Edison

Super awesome 404 page

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:20:27 -0500

Super awesome 404 page:

First time ever I have seen the Spotify 404 page, but it’s hilarious.

"Yes, everything was done in-house. Unless there’s something you absolutely hate, then, that..."

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:33:30 -0500

“Yes, everything was done in-house. Unless there’s something you absolutely hate, then, that was done out-of-house.”

- booneoakley.com - Oh, by the way their Youtube corporate website is a must-watch

What mattered in 2011? Google’s Zeitgeist sorted billions...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:51:21 -0500

What mattered in 2011? Google’s Zeitgeist sorted billions of searches to capture the (almost past) year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.

DNS update is er door, Tumblr is (weer) de digitale thuis geworden.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:39:35 -0500

DNS update is er door, Tumblr is (weer) de digitale thuis geworden.

Great TED talk, and if you haven’t read the book you...

Sat, 21 May 2011 18:00:00 -0400

Great TED talk, and if you haven’t read the book you should!

Photo

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:25:15 -0400

The Holy Grail Of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture | Lifehacker Australia

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:07:39 -0400

The Holy Grail Of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture | Lifehacker Australia:

minimalmac:

Ubiquitous capture — that is, the ability to snag any thought or idea any time and anywhere it happens to crop up — is a key component to nearly every productivity philosophy. You want to capture those fleeting ideas before they’re gone, and you don’t want to waste brain power obsessing over remembering it until you can write it down somewhere. Below, I’ll walk you through the best ubiquitous capture system I’ve ever encountered.

Great writeup on how to use Simplenote as a hub to get your plain-text files available to you anywhere. This is pretty much the setup I roll with but, as you may have read in a recent interview, I take the added step of storing my .txt database in Dropbox. This gives me the added bonuses of deletion protection and versioning.

Also using the same system, and it’s working flawlessly for me. Highly recommended!

roelwillems

Stay Focused & Keep Shipping. — Mark Zuckerberg

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

How cool; just casually taking your 27” iMac into...

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and...

Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net

Visited the Vodafone website to research mobile data usage...

Coupling asynchronous scripts | High Performance Web Sites

"The bitter taste of good quality lingers long after the sweetness of the low price is gone"

How to make coffee when your house’s electricity is out

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"

HTML5 Rocks! (Presentation)

"The act of typing doesn’t turn one into a writer any more than sleeping in a garage turns one into a..."

"I didn’t fail 700 times. “I found out 700 ways, how not to make a lightbulb"

Super awesome 404 page

"Yes, everything was done in-house. Unless there’s something you absolutely hate, then, that﻿..."

What mattered in 2011? Google’s Zeitgeist sorted billions...

DNS update is er door, Tumblr is (weer) de digitale thuis geworden.

Great TED talk, and if you haven’t read the book you...

Photo

The Holy Grail Of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture | Lifehacker Australia

"Yes, everything was done in-house. Unless there’s something you absolutely hate, then, that..."