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Author Archives: Sharpy
Drowning doesn’t look like drowning
Scary (especially for parents), but a must read. Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, via John Gruber: So if a crew member falls overboard and every looks O.K.—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading [...]
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Saving the world with Facebook
“Internet guru” Clay Shirky on new media: Look, we got erotic novels, first crack out of the box, once we had printing presses. It took a century and a half for the Royal Society to start publishing the first scientific journal in English. So even with the sacred printing press, the first things you get [...]
Why I’m not a fan of ClearType
A quick comparison of how different the amazing font Inconsolata looks in Mac OS X versus Windows. (Spoiler: not so amazing in Windows.)
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My new MacBook Pro (15″, 2.53 GHz Core i5, w/ Hi-res antiglare display)
Got a shiny and new MacBook Pro today. It’s a beautiful machine: incredibly durable, a dream to type on, great antiglare display, powerful graphics and processor, and more battery life than any Windows laptop owner could probably dream of. It’s everything I need, and more. I’ve had my trusty white late-2007 model MacBook for two [...]
Could the iPad be the tipping point?
Update: To get where I’m coming from here I highly recommend that you read the following articles from Joel on Software: Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems and Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!. The tipping point, Joel on Software: One thing you see a lot when there is a transition from an [...]
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Software is hard
Allan Odgaard’s Textmate Blog lead me to the linked article: If you’re doing top-down design, you produce a specification that stops at some level of granularity. And you always risk discovering, come implementation time, that the module or class that was the lowest level of your specification hides untold worlds of complexity that will take [...]
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The complexity stick
Humanity has a habit of glorifying complexity. "Gritty" movies are hailed as masterpieces, whilst wonderfully simple stories of love and loyalty perform poorly. I wonder if someone hit me with the complexity stick too many times. I wonder if it was me.
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Thematic
Wrote a post a little while back saying that I’d returned to the default WordPress theme Kubrick. This is no longer the case. (I can’t actually remember when I switched away.) Now I’m actually using the theme framework known as Thematic. It’s got a nice minimalist default stylesheet, with great support for extensions and customisations [...]
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The purpose of serving in the church
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the [...]
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