philwebster

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Comment · 6 months ago

That site is worth visiting just for the wavy scrolling marquee text that's actually selectable. Very satisfying!

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing! Looks like the documentary is available on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/322890808

Comment · 3 years ago

Try the ... menu > Select Messages > Read All at the bottom of the screen.

Comment · 3 years ago

His History of Mens Underwear video was one of the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNRX8kfGgYg

Comment · 4 years ago

This is a fairly common procedure for children with different length legs to fix a limping gait. My sister had it done back in 5th grade. She has additional health issues, but once the lengthening process was over, I don't recall her complaining about pain from it.

Comment · 4 years ago

Not surprised they're mistreating the creators based on the way they treat customers. The way they delete any unused credits upon canceling a subscription is egregious.

https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i...

Comment · 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing! I'm curious what you use to generate the high quality diagrams for the readme and on your blog.

Comment · 6 years ago

I do a lot of Mac/iOS UI development and use ImageMagick to make before and after GIFs from screenshots. It's incredibly useful. This is my one-line makegif bash script that I use by dragging images from the desktop to Terminal after the command:

convert -delay 80 -loop 0 +dither "$1" "$2" ~/Desktop/"`date +"%b %d, %Y, %H.%M.%S %p"`.gif"

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm excited to be the first comment to recommend The Broom of the System. I picked it off the library shelf because I knew of David Foster Wallace, but didn't think I had the stamina to go for Infinite Jest at the time. It's much, much shorter than Infinite Jest, and is a single story rather than a collection of essays (don't get me wrong, Consider the Lobster is also great). The humor is absurd, different than anything I'd read before, and it completely clicked with me, paving the way to the rest of his work. You should start here.

Comment · 8 years ago

This reminds me of the time my former company set a policy on everyone's computers locking the home page to the (largely useless and slow-to-load) intranet site. I then wrote a Safari extension [1] out of spite that posted to the site every time I opened a new tab. (If they want engagement, I'll give it to them!)

[1] https://github.com/philwebster/EngageMe

Comment · 9 years ago

I don't feel like the AirPods are that secure when I run with them, so I use some medical tape [1] to secure them to my ears. This is kind of weird, but I've done it since March and really like not worrying about them falling out. I cut off a small 5mm strip of tape, make a loop, and stick it right below the black sensors on each AirPod. They stay firmly attached even when my ears are sweaty and I'm shaking my head.

[1] http://www.amzn.com/B000C4RRQE

Comment · 10 years ago

Another example of SO managing to alienate a user (in this case, me): Posting my very first answer to a question, finding a very similar post and adding my solution there as well, then getting an email that I had posted the same thing and that the second post would be removed. This was unfortunate because the second question had a more lively discussion and seemed like a better place for the answer. I deleted the first answer, tried re-posting on the second question and wasn't allowed. After that, I gave up.

Comment · 10 years ago

That list is somewhat misleading. Slack, for instance, only uses Xamarin Test Cloud.

Comment · 12 years ago

That looks sweet! A less expensive option (that I haven't tried) is the Boogie Board: http://www.myboogieboard.com/na/products/boogie-board-sync-9...