My friend Jennifer Brown scanned this fantastic photo shot by her neighbor of his desk, circa 1983. The Return of the Jedi promotional glass set from Burger King is a perfect touch. Link to bigger picture
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Apr 3, 2008
Atari user's desk, circa 1983
My friend Jennifer Brown scanned this fantastic photo shot by her neighbor of his desk, circa 1983. The Return of the Jedi promotional glass set from Burger King is a perfect touch. Link to bigger picture
iPhone killed tinkering, but only if you want to tinker with iPhone
Most tech-media takes on the iPhone’s 10th anniversary are bland and self-congratulatory, but I like Tom Warren’s at The Verge. He laments how Apple’s pocket computer killed his inner nerd. As a youngster, he’d be constantly tearing down and building computers, even in the sweltering heat of summer. But now… …All of that tinkering and […]
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Programmer pay and indent-style: tab-using coders earn less than space-using coders
David Robinson used the data from the 28,657 people who self-selected to take the Stack Overflow survey to investigate the relationship between programmer pay and the conventions of using either tabs or spaces to mark indents, and found a persistent, significant correlation between using spaces and bringing home higher pay.
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MP3 put out to pasture
It’s the end of an era, sort of: Fraunhofer IIS, the developers of the MP3 audio compression format, announced that they are ceasing their licensing program. In a blog post, spokesman Matthias Rose says that it’s had a good 20-year run and is obsolete. But it’s also true that the decoding patents expired last year, […]
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Charge any device anywhere with this universal solar charger
It’s easy to forget about your phone’s dependency on modern infrastructure when you have free public WiFi and consistent access to electrical outlets. But for all their ubiquity in first-world urban spaces, smartphones become a lot more temperamental once they’re out in the wilderness. To keep using your device’s offline abilities when you go off […]
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Here are 15 apps that will make your laptop The Mac That Was Promised
Aside from specific apps needed for work, the most casual Mac users can probably survive without anything more than the bundled software. iLife is a surprisingly capable office suite (Apple even promotes Keynote as a tool for interface design), and recent versions of Safari are more energy efficient than any other macOS-compatible browser. But if […]
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Time for a new toothbrush?
Despite the upfront cost, electric toothbrushes are much better at removing plaque than those freebies from the dentist’s office. For those who struggle to fill the American Dental Association’s recommended two minutes of brushing time, or anyone with limited dexterity, a sonic toothbrush can give your oral care routine a boost.To keep your chops healthy […]
