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If you are curious and sincerely interested in this general concept, check out what we are doing at https://focusretreatcenter.com and ping me if you want to set up a prototype tri…

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Yes. Plus you get layers and other more advanced features in the style of qmk.

I can transcribe audio from meetings in almost real time. It doesn't actually require blazing fast WPM to do that. I get plenty done. And no, the first working squeezebox prototype…

LOL I funded that one and they never shipped anything.

v2105 is nearly done and the top row angle is larger and it's definitely more comfortable. The version in the post kind of ended up that way due to testing from positions other tha…

Palm and the Palm Pilot. UI responded instantly to every input. 2 AAA batteries lasted a month. With years of heavy usage I never encountered a single bug.

So "Closure" is a real comp sci word used to describe variable scope lifetimes in languages includes JavaScript and others. So when google named their project, they basically took …

There's a huge set of enterprise software applications promising a "Configuration Management Database" (CMDB). It's hard to implement in reality, but not for lack of vendors trying…

Here's my similar long-form article based on advancing in a large enterprise software organization. http://peterlyons.com/leveling_up

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Colorado) node.js expert doing full-stack web applications and devops automation. http://peterlyons.com keywords: node.js, expressjs, APIs, ansible, mongodb,…

I don't think you will find multiple OSX user accounts viable/enjoyable. OSX puts a lot of important preferences (keyboard/mouse settings for example) within the user account, so y…

Would love to see a TL;DR summary. Long academic PDFs are frustrating to read.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (US, CO) http://peterlyons.com node.js web application development full stack, angularjs, devops

The invoices that http://invoiceable.co generates work well for me. But that tool doesn't handle the actual time tracking, just the invoices.

SEEKING WORK - remote Full-stack web development specializing in node.js, cloud, devops, early-phase startup MVPs. http://peterlyons.com

http://callbackhell.com/ That explains the many ways to structure your async code in pure JavaScript (no helper libraries or transpilers) so you don't create callback hell code.

WorkFlowy. Super die-hard fanboy all the way elevenzes. Totally perfect combination of primary hierarchy plus tags and notes and the instantly-responding UI and search that make it…

It's set up as a marketplace where experts can have ballpark hourly rates and clients can also offer a specific rate for a given request. Then a mutually agreed upon amount (could …

My post on this topic, which is in agreement with this post. http://peterlyons.com/problog/2012/09/managing-per-project-i...

Other factors probably at play: Obj-C MUCH older. CoffeeScript designed to be simple and have fewer "bad parts" thus fewer questions. Many problems faced while coding CoffeeScript …

So here's a question. If one was satisfied/interested/liked/whatever their current job, but thought they were truly earning significantly more than their salary, is there any good …

I think programmer productivity is also linked to happiness given one's own tools. My experience thus far is I'm happier when working with CoffeeScript. Not "OMG P0nies" happier, b…

So let me clarify that my general take on the state of programming languages today is that they are all pretty terrible and we don't have a good track record of fixing known flaws …