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Gertig wrote: post #8

prezjordan wrote: post #2

I swear, Mattt must code for 40 hours a day. The sheer quantity (and quality!) of his ships is mind-boggling. This looks fantastic, I'll definitely be checking this out!

After reading the first two paragraphs I thought that this has to be mattt! The man is a machine.

Same. I think I've read every post in NSHipster at least twice.

Re: Helios

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Post by anonymous » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 7:48 AM UTC

MrUnderhill wrote: post #29

Off topic: The ultra light custom fonts a lot of websites use nowadays (looks like "Bariol" on this site), do they look bad to anyone other than me? Both in Firefox and Opera (Linux) many of the lines are invisible or barely visible (example: http://i.imgur.com/Yk0Q83G.png ). In Chrome they look a little bit better.

Here's firefox on linux. http://imgur.com/YqtBUR4 You might want to change the hinting on your fonts. I've set it to "slight".

Re: Helios

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Post by maximegarcia » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 8:13 AM UTC

Saw Mattt and his Helios project at Paris.rb meetup yesterday evening. Quite interesting :)

I wondered in the subway while coming back home if Helios helps to sync backend-made changes to the app through push notifications, in an automagically fashion.

Re: Helios

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Post by troels » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 11:45 AM UTC

Not to rain on the parade, but I just got started with ios and I gave up on getting AFIncrementalStore to work properly. RestKit looks much more solid to me. Can any actual ios developers (e.g. someone with more than 14 days of experience) comment on that?

Re: Helios

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Post by panzerboy » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 12:50 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #15

Neat, I already use mattt's CLI tool for interfacing with the Apple dev site: https://github.com/mattt/cupertino

Cool, didn't even know about that one. Installed, thanks!

Re: Helios

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Post by degenerate » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 9:44 PM UTC

hellotoby wrote: post #45

degenerate wrote: post #30

Helios is also the moniker of a very "cloud-like" (ambient) composer named Keith Kenniff. His music is excellent for coding when you need that superior downtempo thinking background noise. My favorite album: https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/helios-eingya His soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff

Just listened to this. If you like this kind of ambient music then I recommend you take a look at the works by Geotic. http://www.angelfire.com/indie/postfoetus/geotic.html

Tried it, liked it, donated. Thanks! (also emailed him to tell him about a few broken links to his album downloads)