January 2011
7 posts
My Node.js Talk on Proxlet
Proxlet has been all over the news today: Gizmodo / Lifehacker, BusinessInsider, Swiss-miss… and even 100shiki have covered it.
Throughout all this massive press, our $10/month server hasn’t skipped a single beat. How? Node.js.
If you’re interested in learning how Node.js lets Proxlet handle millions upon millions of queries on the cheapest of cloud servers, please join me the...
WebM: Google's weapon against iPhone battery life
A conspiracy theory for you to mull over:
Apple takes great care to ensure a long battery life for their iOS devices, by carefully controlling the hardware & software metaphors that impact it. The result is that iOS devices vastly outlast Android comparables.
By pushing the web towards the WebM codec, Google can very quickly knock a key benefit of the iPhone, namely H.264 hardware decoding,...
“Dealing with the future, it is more important to be imaginative and insightful...”
– Alvin Toffler (via putitperfectly)
Competition & Class
Having competition is great, personally, I get fired up and motivated into new levels of energy. Friends have seen me “on the warpath”. My productivity & focus seem to double instantaneously. (If I only I could bottle this, and sell it to you, friends)
I recently discovered Proxlet has a new competitor. The value Proxlet provides (muting annoying tweets) is a problem many people...
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
WE LIVE IN THE MOTHER FLIPPIN FUTURE!!!
(via msg)
RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried. →
nerdcast:
parislemon:
And I do agree that the RSS problem is largely an aesthetic one. And while that may sound simple enough to fix, obviously, it hasn’t been.
Now Facebook and Twitter are fixing it for everyone by stabbing it repeatedly in the stomach.
Not gonna lie, I can’t stand “RSS is Dying” posts. But, I have been using it less and less as my usage of Twitter has gone up. I have...
“Yes, I realize that’s a contradiction, but it seems to capture the essence of...”
– Continuations: The Private IPO
