It’s right there in the docs but I didn’t notice it until recently:
heroku pgbackups:restore DATABASE `heroku pgbackups:url --remote production` --remote stagingBoom! It transfers the production Postgres database to staging.
It’s much faster than
db:pull, thendb:push, which is what I…
There’s all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of…
325 days.
That’s how long it took to recover from my last tech job. I quit on New Year’s Eve, 2010, completely burned out on the tech scene. I joined a new company on November 21, 2011. I am, once again, an employed software developer. But for 324 days, I was pretty sure I’d never be one again.
In the intervening time I “found myself”. When I say “found myself”, I don’t mean that I spent more time watching porn than I did figuring out what I want to do with my life. Actually, I do mean that, but that was just for the first few months.
(Source: hipstergrammers)
(Source: hipstergrammers)
(Source: hipstergrammers)
ThreeNodes.js is a visual dataflow based WebGL editor that uses drag and drop to create a scene. It is similar to vvvv, which is described as “a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development.” It allows the user to drag and drop units known as “patches” onto a…
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
Kerning.js
Take control of your web typographyCSS, meet kerning. Kerning, meet CSS. Kern, style, transform, and scale your web type with real CSS rules, automatically.
(Source: nassoskappa, via uxkitchen)
This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.
The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:
Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:
Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.
