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Imitate The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/). They produce beautiful, low impact, relevant ads which I frequently consider carefully and often click-through on. They do an amazing job and I've deliberately reduced the power of my adblock blacklists to see those ads. An example ad: http://hivelogic.com/ They're clearly not even attempting to scale, but they have the ideas that -- if brought to scale -- could make advertising less sinful.

These seem like good places for them to start: http://www.blogworld.com/2012/09/14/23-brilliant-bloggers-talk-about-p… http://jontusmedia.com/best-podcasting-equipment-great-sound/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/podcasting-equipment-software-guide-2011…

Steve Jobs has been trying to popularize the word 'app' for several decades. At the very least since the 1989 launch of NeXTSTEP, an OS that used the word all over. For instance, watch this 1992 demo of NeXTSTEP 3.0: http://hivelogic.com/articles/classic-steve-jobs/ Because of its NeXTSTEP heritage, Mac OS X uses a lot of NeXTSTEP lingo, like 'app', 'dock' and 'plist'.

I've been using Anonymous Pro: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html mentioned in a followup to that article: http://hivelogic.com/articles/anonymous-pro-programming-monospace-font…

Inconsolata - http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html - I won't work on in any IDE without first making this the default. It is incredibly worth of consistently being considered among the best programming fonts (http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts).

A great comparison of fonts that puts Inconsolata at the top. http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts Inconsolata is also what I use exclusively. I make a point to install it on any new box that I'm going to be using regularly.

Anonymous Pro... http://hivelogic.com/articles/anonymous-pro-programming-monospace-font… it's the best overall.

I recently started using Inconsolata which looks fantastic at both large and small sizes http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html and also made the "Top 10 Programming Fonts" list here : http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

Things like "social network for wine lovers" I think are likely to fail. Actually, Cork'd was acquired back in May! http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/corkd-acquired

This article is clearly a troll, specifically the issue of monospace. Also, some monospace fonts are better than others. I was using consolas for a while, and have recently switched to ubuntu mono for the sake of beauty and clarity. I would never use a proportional font for programming, in part because positions of things matter and inform your reasoning. Here's a good blog post about beautiful programming fonts: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/ In particular, this claim is totally unsubstantiated: "Fixed-width fonts are a typographical oddity that survived through tradition and little else." As a pretty young programmer, I don't use monospace or really anything only for the sake of tradition. It's the best tool for the job, even if it was by accidental means. I don't think a language optimized for proportional fonts would be superior in any way for it. In fact, monospace is superior in that you can choose to convey information with STRUCTURE. This capability becomes muddied and confused with proportional fonts.

I just tried Consolas again, inspired by this article[1]. I like how it is short and shows a lot of vertical lines. And it looks good. But after comparing it side-by-side with Monospace (default on Linux Mint), I'm sticking with it. I just like more how it looks, it seems clearer to my eyes.[2] [1] http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts [2] http://i.imgur.com/1FRVhWh.png

Compare the fonts on this page. Courier gets muddied when it's bolded, and feels a tad thin when not, in my opinion: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts The last 3 fonts listed on the page are really strong for programming.

Example: show [email protected] in plain text on your site and let it pass Gmail's spam filter but send the reply from [email protected] if you get a non-spam message. Use Enkoder ( http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/ ) if you're really spam sensitive.

Far more user-friendly is Dan Benjamin's Enkoder. http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/ It requires that JavaScript be enabled for users, but blocks a large number of spam bots.

You can export them with this Python script http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr/ or with Bulkr (paid version)

Take a look at this article: http://hivelogic.com/articles/using_usr_local/

Dan Benjamin has some good stuff ex: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-sno…

Good ol' Monaco... Some more discussion here: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts And then there's this: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

I've been meditating daily in the Mindfulness (aka Insight) meditation style for about 6 years, and it's completely changed my life and my health. I've written about this (with a focus on geeks like us) here: http://hivelogic.com/articles/an-introduction-to-mindfulness-meditatio… http://hivelogic.com/articles/how-to-start-a-meditation-practice http://hivelogic.com/articles/meditation-gear I hope this is useful to you.

Related and very recent: http://hivelogic.com/articles/setup-guide-rails-stack-with-passenger-r…

# TODO set up sidecar # write_sidecar(photoid, photo.getAttribute("secret"), dir) I'll have a look through this - looks like it also allows for metadata capture and I can see some code not implemented ~ https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr/blob/master/flickrtouchr.py more here ~ http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr

What a bummer. Reading the acquisition announcement from 2007 (http://hivelogic.com/articles/corkd-has-been-acquired) shows that the founders Dan Benjamin and Dan Cederholm will be pretty disappointed. "Cork’d couldn’t have found a better home." Maybe it could have?

I'm not sure if this is what Gruber uses, but it seems to do a good jon (supposedly): http://hivelogic.com/enkoder I'm sure you could do your own simper but unique variation.

Hivelogic has good overall instructions on installing your own version of ruby in /usr/local here: http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-leopard The steps are the same for installing 1.8.7 or 1.9, you just change the version of Ruby that you download.

Here's a pretty nice list of programming fonts. http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/ I like DejaVu sans and Monaco

This will create a pretty mailto link encrypted with javascript that the bots can't pick up: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form I've used it for years with good results. People will even email me thinking that I've exposed my email address to spammers encouraging me to use the blah [at] blah dot com style.

I got a lot of mileage out of a post by Dan Benjamin a few months ago: http://hivelogic.com/articles/how-to-start-a-meditation-practice/ As the URL (and title) implies, it provides you with a good starting point. I'd floundered for quite a while reading up on theory, which is nice but has nothing on actual practice. In particular, he linked (and now, so will I) to the online text of Mindfulness In Plain English at http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html, which is both pragmatic and convincing. Those two links finally got me started on the meditation practice I'd intended to try for years, and I've stuck to it without breaks longer than a day or two.

I recently re-did my entire rails dev stack when i upgraded to 10.6. and I made the point of avoiding MacPorts this time around. It always ended up being a hassle for me. these proved handy: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-sno… http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-git-on-snow-leopard/

I enjoyed this recent post from Dan Benjamin, introducing meditation: http://hivelogic.com/articles/an-introduction-to-mindfulness-meditatio… In particular, this line: "One final thing to keep in mind; you absolutely do not have to be a Buddhist to meditate in this way, and this practice won’t turn you into one, either." Which isn't to knock Buddhism in the slightest, but just a reminder that it's possible and useful to consider the practice of meditation as a separate thing from the Buddhism, or mysticism, or whatever-else-ism that it's often packaged up with in popular consciousness, and which might put off some people from trying it.