Applescripts-for-Aperture · GitHub
I created a little Applescript for Apple’s Aperture, that automatically adds camera model and lens model keywords to every photo on import.
Imagine
Imagine a life where all your time is spent on the things you want to do.
Imagine giving your greatest attention to a project you create yourself, instead of working as a cog in a machine that exists to make other people rich.
Follow your Passion?
My hypothesis is that passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals, and so you would expect to see more failures and more huge successes among the passionate. Passionate people who fail don’t get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. But successful passionate people are writing books and answering interview questions about their secrets for success every day. Naturally those successful people want you to believe that success is a product of their awesomeness, but they also want to retain some humility. One can’t be humble and say, “I succeeded because I am far smarter than the average person.” But you can say your passion was a key to your success, because everyone can be passionate about something or other, right? Passion sounds more accessible. If you’re dumb, there’s not much you can do about it, but passion is something we think anyone can generate in the right circumstances. Passion feels very democratic. It is the people’s talent, available to all.
It’s also mostly bullshit.
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
The culture of the eight-hour workday is big business’ most powerful tool for keeping people in this same dissatisfied state where the answer to every problem is to buy something.
The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Instead of doing an endless series of separate searches, we tune the knobs on our stream-browser to continuously feed us just the information we need.
The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards - In Focus - The Atlantic
Amazing photos.
PeteSearch: Things users don't care about
How long you spent on it.
How hard it was to implement.
How clean your architecture is.
How extensible it is.
How well it runs on your machine.
How great it will be once all their friends are on it.
How amazing the next version will be.
Whose fault the problems are.
What you think they should be interested in.
What you expected.
What you were promised.
How important this is to you.
Das Ende der Arbeit
Das sind die Fragen, die mich interessieren: Wie verändert sich unsere Identität, wenn unsere Arbeit nicht mehr Kern unseres Lebens ist? Wie wird sich die Wirtschaft verändern, wenn man kein Geld mehr verdienen kann? Wie wollen wir leben?
“Full Frame Equivalence” and Why It Doesn’t Matter @ Admiring Light
A thorough article explaining the practical differences between camera systems with smaller sensors and systems with bigger “full frame” sensors.
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas by David of 37signals
The road to programming hell is paved with “best practices” applied too early. Very few abstractions, extractions, or architectures are inherently bad (although I’ll contend that a few are). But most of them are downright evil if applied before they’re called for.
To take the scare quotes of flexibility, you have to be willing to write no code at all. The “Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work” and “You’re Just Not Going To Need It” are both sayings to help you get there.
Beating the Anxiety of Online Reading
How do you deal with this? It’s a matter of letting go, and realizing you can’t ever, ever possibly read 1% of the good stuff that’s out there. It’s absolutely impossible. And so you must let go, or the anxiety will never end.
I need to work on this myself.
Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod
I propose Subcompact Publishing tools and editorial ethos begin (but not end) with the following qualities:
Small issue sizes (3-7 articles / issue) Small file sizes Digital-aware subscription prices Fluid publishing schedule Scroll (don’t paginate) Clear navigation HTML(ish) based Touching the open web Many of these qualities play off one another. Let’s look at them in detail.
Don’t miss the follow-up: http://craigmod.com/satellite/subcompact_round_up/
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Teaching Programming on iOS
The basic idea is that we are going to set up an Amazon EC2 instance, SSH into it and edit and execute our code over there. There are several really nice SSH clients for iOS.
Seth's Blog: What do you do when they don't understand?
Many sources, from textbooks to websites, take the position that if you don’t understand a concept or a nuance, it’s your loss. I think that’s an strategic failure on the part of the writer.