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  • Status Board at Home

    Status Board at Home

    I have wanted my own always-on Status Board for years, displaying ambient status for things I’d otherwise forget. So, I made one. I used a free trial of Geckoboard to bring all of these stats together. The most useful part of this screen is the graphs on the left that come from RescueTime that let…

  • A cartoonist’s advice

    A cartoonist’s advice

    Gavin Aung Than created a wonderful comic around a quote taken from the graduation speech Bill Watterson gave at his alma mater, Kenyon College, in 1990. Watterson is the man behind the widely acclaimed Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. The entire speech is full of great advice. Than’s comic is based around this quote: Creating…

  • Coleman Vista

    Coleman Vista

    Yesterday’s view near Coleman Beach while driving from Jenner to Bodega Bay on SR 1. “I don’t need to see Him walk on it to know He made it.”

  • Commas for Developers

    Brent Simmons pays attention to the details and gets right to the point: If your writing — in tweets and especially on your blog and product pages — is full of misspellings and improper capitalization and other errors, I will lose trust in you and your product. If you’re careless with language, are you also…

  • Why Small Choices Count

    Brett & Kate McKay explain why our everyday choices make or break our integrity. Once you commit one dishonest act, your moral standards loosen, your self-perception as an honest person gets a little hazier, your ability to rationalize goes up, and your fudge factor margin increases. Where you draw the line between ethical and unethical,…