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When Reader shut down I migrated to newsblur, vowing to pay for things I really use, so RSS never died for me :)

I switched to Newsblur after the shutdown of Google Reader. It's paid, but after what happened with Reader I realized how important a good RSS feed was to me and that it was worth …

What is your reasoning for not using query params for the login request? I know it's probably more RESTful to use POST, but otherwise if you're using HTTPS for everything, query pa…

I feel the same way. Headspace's guided take 10 course was a solid introduction for me, but once I got used to regular practice, headspace's "extras" weren't needed anymore. Now al…

Banning smartphones doesn't preclude having dumb cell phones. My smartphone died last week and I thought long and hard about getting another one. Ultimately I don't have the willpo…

I used last year to learn Elm really well and plan on using this year for F#. Go for it! Elm served as a gentle intro to Haskell for me personally since it has easier to read error…

I don't disagree that if you can get away with just a local development environment that it is likely easier to get up and running. However, it requires good documentation of proje…

I've had quite the opposite experience. Vagrant has saved my team lots of time fighting environmental issues. The approach of running apache locally falls apart pretty quickly as y…

I've been running Nightly and experienced the same thing with inbox. If I attempt to interact with it before fully loaded, inbox will freeze up for minutes at a time. Love everythi…

Same experience here! I had never seen them, but when we had our daughter my aunt wisely gave us barnyard dance. I was skeptical at first, but the collection of boynton has grown a…

IMO you don't need a reason for something like this, it's just fun. We all spend a lot of time solving problems with software and I believe most of us neglect that you can make stu…

This is an interesting thought. The nicest communities on reddit I've encountered tended to be small or to have a small "core" group that all knew each other and were highly visibl…

The Hyperion books also have some interesting (and prescient) things to say about humans relying on a vast network of information instead of their own memories. They are some of my…

I spent some time working through various Haskell books with varying success, then decided to do a code challenge (adventofcode.com) using Elm. I didn't finish, but after writing E…

I learned the unidirectional data flow pattern with flux before redux and redux makes flux look like war & peace! :P The no frills way I like to think about redux is your rendered …

Even as a former smoker, I never really thought too much about smoking sections until my wife was pregnant. Suddenly someone smoking in the wrong area was a threat to my unborn chi…

As a fellow "hipster programmer", I was also enticed by the Bellroy wallet ads... They showed up when I was in the market for a wallet and were exactly what I needed. Love mine, bu…

This was my reaction to the tabs as well - now I have three inboxes to keep clean instead of one! I disabled them as soon as I could figure out how to.

I think what makes this shutdown different from Reader is that 37signals did this as soon as they realized it wasn't a profitable venture. I can't actually say how it went down at …

I think the main use case for untapped is enabling your beer drinking habits via badge rewards ;)

I think I may be starting to feel this as well. I'm 27 and have been feeling resistant to staying a programmer. My father in law has been showing me the ropes of being handy - wood…

I could tell it was fake because the Elon Musk link wasn't in the top 3. ;)

It's funny, new graffiti is vandalism, but old graffiti becomes history in and of itself. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, they have an entire Egyptian temple that at…

I'm in your exact position. Aging Nexus One that I plan on replacing, using t-mobile. LTE isn't an issue for me for a while, as I don't plan on giving my money to either Verizon or…

I've said it before elsewhere, but for me reading the slides to a presentation I haven't seen is sort of like watching tv in a different language. I mostly know what's going on, an…