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2013-05-11 22:35:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Boom! 0.6 released, your Apache Bench replacement. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/boom/0.6

2012-08-14 13:57:59 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-04-06 01:27:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Seems a lot of people are having their issues with the new Instagram app for Android. +Michael Novak and +Juhani Lehtimäki for example point out technical issues with urls and intents.

From my point of view, the biggest issue is the UI, obviously. Did the designers/developers even bother to have a look at Google Android guidelines? I noticed a lot of popular apps coming to Android lately, being just lame iOS ports without respecting the operating system's interaction and presentation rules. Just think about a nicely crafted OSX app on a windows desktop or vice versa. It would be a disaster.

I mocked up an Instagram screen this morning, trying to incorporate as many of Android's design principles as possible. I like the idea of sliding through the colorful, branded tabs, and having that color reflected at the bottom.

What do you think? Is this more like what... more »

2012-04-04 05:12:01 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Freudian Slip :)

2012-02-16 19:39:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Are you starting a new iOS app in the next week or two? DM me or e-mail me floguy@gmail.com I've got some stuff I think you're going to like.

2012-01-05 19:33:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Joe Stump of Sprintly, digg and SimpleGeo was an AMAZING guest in a long string of great founders recently (including +Jim Lanzone +Kevin Rose and +Dave Morin).

Well worth checking out....



0:00-3:30 Welcome everyone to the first TWiST of 2012! We've had an amazing run so far, and we're 220 episodes in.
3:30-5:30 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the show. If you're an entrepreneur or small business owner, call Scott at 310-288-6667.
5:30-9:15 Welcome to today's guest, Joe Stump. Joe, what was SimpleGeo, what was your mission there?
10:45-12:00 How do you approach investors to tell them about your pivot?
17:00-19:00 It reminds me of Batman when they have a grid of everyone's phone in NYC, everyone geo-tagged. What crazy things did you envision at SimpleGeo that could be possible because of that?
19:00-19:45 Joe... more »

2011-12-04 03:37:32 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Starting from a debate on Twitter, I claim that morals are absolute and not relative. While it may be tempting to think that different cultures have different social norms and thus different moral obligations, when one takes that thought to the logical conclusions, it becomes clear that it is simply not true.

To show that morals are absolute, let's first take the position that morals are relative, and that each culture has a different moral code. What follows from that?

1. Society cannot morally improve

If moral relativism is true, then slavery cannot have been immoral. It was completely in line with the cultural and social norms of the time. We would have to look back at slavery and say that, at the time it was moral, and at this time it is not. However, it's hard to reconcile this fact with the idea that we have somehow morally improved. If we would like to... more »

2011-12-02 08:44:05 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Holy shit, this made me laugh so hard I cried

2011-11-21 06:34:20 (0 comments, 11 reshares, 21 +1s)

2011-11-13 22:40:37 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

This video proves once and for all that BIG was the best rapper ever.

2011-11-12 10:27:40 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Ever since I moved to my new apartment with a nice big kitchen, I've been trying to teach myself how to cook. Mostly everything I've made has been pretty good so far, with the exception of a few duds (my biggest problem is accidentally overcooking meat). Tonight, I made a major breakthrough though: I was finally confident enough to invent a recipe riffing off of stuff I had learned in other recipes. And it turned out great!

I'm going to call it "EFlo's Kinda Asian Beef"

Here it is (I'm approximating on the measurements, I didn't measure anything):

* Thin-cut round steak beef
* 1 tablespoon canola oil
* 3-4 garlic cloves, crushed with the back of a spoon but left in the dry outer skin
* 4 tablespoons soy sauce
* 2 tablespoons sake
* 1 tablespoon cornstarch
* 1 tablespoon brown sugar
* Steamed rice... more »

2011-11-04 18:44:23 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

YouTube integration here seems really slapped-on.

2011-11-02 21:43:19 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Sounds like a good idea!

2011-10-13 00:37:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

iOS devs: have 15-20 mins for a Skype call with me this week? I want to get feedback on a product idea intended to help you iterate faster on your iOS apps. Either leave a comment here or e-mail ericflo@boilerplateinc.com if you're willing to talk a bit.

Thanks in advance everyone!

2011-10-11 20:50:14 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

New Avengers trailer, I legitimately can not freaking wait! Who's going to see this with me?

2011-10-10 08:31:49 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

As more and more people pile on about Dart, I start to feel bad for the team working on it. Sucks to have your work shit on like that.

2011-10-06 00:02:07 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 14 +1s)

Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

2011-10-04 07:45:23 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Whenever a dev you know leaves their computer unattended, go to their GitHub account and "watch" Node and MongoDB. Way better than rickroll :)

2011-10-02 03:47:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Had to give up on The Tree of Life 20 minutes in. I must just not be sophisticated enough for this movie.

2011-10-01 20:25:55 (2 comments, 13 reshares, 18 +1s)

Truer words were never spoken...

2011-09-28 20:26:50 (1 comments, 14 reshares, 16 +1s)

From Heroku's latest blog post:

"Python has a culture which finds an ideal balance between fast-moving innovation and diligent caution. It emphasizes readability, minimizes "magic," treats documentation as a first-class concern, and has a traditon of well-tested, backward-compatible releases in both the core language and its ecosystem of libraries. It blends approachability for beginners with maintainability for large projects, which has enabled its presence in fields as diverse as scientific computing, video games, systems automation, and the web."

2011-09-18 09:08:55 (29 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Seriously, who are all of you people following me? I hardly post anything here and every new follower that I click through on seems to have no common interests with me. I'm baffled!

2011-09-17 09:59:20 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This looks pretty good, haven't heard too much buzz about it though. Anyone know what the deal is?

2011-09-14 21:19:15 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Weird, Twitter is just not working for me, but downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it's up. Anyone else having similar problems?

2011-09-14 08:19:28 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm completely desensitized now to A) the red notification badge, and B) "XXX new people are sharing with you!"

Google needs to figure that out or it's going to be a problem if we all get notification blindness.

2011-08-20 00:32:12 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Love movies? Check out Can'tWait! http://cantwa.it/ - awesome new app by +Eric Florenzano and +eric maguire

2011-08-01 03:14:59 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google's handling of the new iGoogle GMail gadget situation is sufficiently bad that I think I might quit GMail. It's that big of a deal to me.

2011-07-27 19:59:46 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

There are a few companies out there trying to make iOS development easier (e.g. Appcelerator) and they all do so by letting you use a higher level language instead of objective-c.

This doesn't work, because every single time this abstraction breaks and you end up having to know how the objective-c versions of things work PLUS you have to understand the translation and how the middle layer does it.

The reasons why solutions do this are obvious: people are more familiar with higher-level dynamic languages, and by abstracting away the objective-c, you can sell developers on the dream of running the same code on different devices.

Instead what I'd really like to see, is for someone to build a framework in objective-c that encapsulates all of the things you would expect to want in building a modern iOS application. Something which uses Cocoa as its base, but... more »

2011-07-22 07:07:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The thing that irks me about this gadget thing is that geeks/nerds don't really use iGoogle much, so it's not getting a lot of attention online. But 11.3 million people have it installed, and if you read the comments, it's a bigger story than it seems.

2011-07-22 06:55:40 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The new iGoogle GMail gadget is a big mistake (see release notes here: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-and-improved-gmail-gadget-for.html)

I don't appear to be alone in that opinion--the reaction to the change is universally negative: http://goo.gl/Yi6yM However, as we all know, people tend to hate change, so I thought to myself, what were the reasons that I was using the old gadget?

* A quick way to see if I have new mail, and if so, see the latest mail
* A quick way to archive and delete mail that I can tell is bad from the title
* A way to bypass the GMail homepage and go directly into the body of interesting mail

By changing from the old gadget, which was a simple list of the latest e-mails, into a richer gadget with more controls and more functionality built-in, it actually regresses on both the first and the third of those three points.
... more »

2011-07-20 22:43:43 (4 comments, 9 reshares, 16 +1s)

This just cracks me up. DUBSTEP MIME - Doctor P - Big Boss (via @b6n on Twitter)

2011-07-18 06:35:31 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)

Batman Begins - Falls - Rises. Can't wait!

2011-07-14 22:14:08 (33 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

This will definitely fail: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7616727542/introducing-browserid-a-better-way-to-sign-in

The open standards guys just don't seem to get it. You know why I implement Twitter and Facebook login? So that I can tap into that user's friends and give them a social experience from the start. Also because it opens up those social channels for sharing.

This gives developers neither of those, and it considers that a feature!

2011-07-14 18:33:48 (22 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

It's interesting using SQLAlchemy after all these years of using Django's ORM.

It makes possible things that are impossible with Django's ORM. It makes easy some things that are hard with Django's ORM.

It also makes hard some things that are easy with Django's ORM.

Yet another reminder that there is rarely a "better" or "worse", but more often a series of tradeoffs.

2011-07-13 08:50:19 (9 comments, 6 reshares, 17 +1s)

I almost forgot about this. So funny! (It's a collection of responses of people on Facebook who are outraged at The Onion stories because they don't know it's parody) http://literallyunbelievable.org/

2011-07-10 21:35:32 (34 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Anyone know if there's someplace where I can pay for up-to-date API access to movie data, without onerous terms?

2011-07-10 21:32:59 (16 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

One problem with G+ is that when someone shares something with me, it's hard to know the context. I mean, you can know if it's "Limited" but without knowing who exactly can see it, we're back to the same problem of not really knowing who can see what, so we can't really open up.

2011-07-09 00:21:36 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

All these mobile photo sharing things need Dropbox integration like PicPlz has. It's a killer feature. You never need to connect your phone to your computer to download your photos.

2011-07-09 00:04:51 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

I like Flask's new Blueprint stuff. Am already using it.

2011-07-07 23:34:15 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Whoa! What happened? Did someone mention my name somewhere? Hello everyone, I'll try to make it interesting :)

2011-07-07 05:25:54 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 10 +1s)

You can use the mobile interface to have a nice, slim, minimum-width timeline version of Google+ to go right alongside Tweetie (and Sparrow).

Just add the app in Fluid, add this custom user agent

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7

Oh—and make sure to allow browsing to all URLs.

2011-07-06 23:06:58 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Haha, I tried to start a hangout with +Kevin Florenzano but accidentally opened it up to everyone. Happy accident, because he wasn't around, and +Adrian Holovaty and +Joseph Kocherhans at EveryBlock jumped in. I like the planned serendipity of these hangout things!

2011-07-06 08:17:59 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Feeling really good about the new startup, it's really coming along great. Lots still to do, but lots in the rear view. I'm way more excited than I should be about the cleverness of the domain we chose for our URL shortener :)

2011-07-03 05:11:15 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

I don't understand why people think the nerdy bids by Google make them look bad.

Why is 3 billion dollars any more serious than 3.14 billion dollars? Once you get into those numbers, it's arbitrary anyway, might as well pick numbers with some meaning rather than just base-ten multiples.

Also, Google has a long history of doing things like this: its IPO, the spectrum auction, and several other occasions. They're notorious for it. Were they taking their IPO seriously? I certainly think so.

2011-07-02 19:21:11 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Remember back in the MySpace days the "see who visited your profile" apps came out. I'm betting the G+ equivalent will be "see what circles you're in."

2011-07-02 00:35:54 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Having a debate with +Richard Hesse on Twitter. Which airline do you prefer: Virgin or United?

2011-07-02 00:34:46 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Interesting, iGoogle has the new Google sandbar, but it doesn't have the notifications count. I would definitely come back to G+ more if I saw notifications on my homepage.