Make-A-Face.org. Do it.
I had to turn in my computer from my old job, so this weekend, against my better judgement and facts, I bought a new Macbook Pro. Here's a list of things I had to install on it:
- Textmate
- Querious
- 1Password
- Dropbox
- Google Chrome
- Colloquy
- Jumpcut (crucial)
- Chicken of the VNC
- Tweetie
- Paperface (My own SSH tunneling app I need to release someday)
- MarsEdit
- NetNewsWire (lost my license, had to pay again)
- MySQL
- Git
I think Alex Payne's post titled Don't Be A Hero is a must read for engineers, but even more so for managers of engineers.
Hell, everyone who works on teams should read this.
I hadn't heard about this competition called NYC BigApps. It's a project to get people to create applications using NY specific data. Submissions actually closed yesterday and voting begins in a few days. It looks great and the site where you download data sets is incredibly usable.
I want to play!
I'm a little bummed about Favrd shutting down. From the first day to the last day of using it, it never changed for me—so it's surprising to hear it had become such a unwieldy burden.
I don't doubt it had, of course. I trust Dean to know when it's no longer manageable. I just didn't know it had become that bad. I wish I would have known this was coming.
This is a clever idea from Andy. Take a popular meme, remove the subject and just leave the background. Meme Scenery I don't know why it's so funny, but it is.