Hacker Monthly
Regarding my earlier post about MagCloud and Hacker Monthly, I’ve learned that you can just download the PDFs of the magazine. Throw em into iBooks (or GoodReader) and have one less app to worry about.
My Name is Wes
Topics at the front of my mind: creativity, thought, attention with a little bit of ExpressionEngine sprinkled throughout.
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2010-07-21
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Multi-server Setup for EE 2 - EE Insider
Great tutorial on how to bend EE2’s
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2010-07-20
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2010-07-19
http://hackermonthly.com/ + http://magcloud.com/ipad = Fantastic.
If you have an iPad, go download Magcloud and start reading Hacker Monthly. It’s all of the fantastic stories from Hacker News all rolled up into an easily digestible magazine.
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2010-07-16
Without a certain comfort level with ambiguity – an uncertain outcome – we would never experiment. If we never experimented, we would never make mistakes. And if we never made mistakes, we would never learn anything.
— What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation, Failure & Creative Genius
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2010-07-13
Designers, like many others, started doing less and thinking more. A profession that straddled white and blue collar worlds became a managerial profession. We pay premium for high-level hand-waving practices while deluding ourselves that it is smarter, better—even faster—way to achieve progress.
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Designers: Stop Armchair Quarterbacking. Play The Damn Game | Co.
(via Frank Chimero)
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2010-07-12
I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. Thank you and good luck!
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2010-07-09
EPICWIN
This will change everything.
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Inspiration is about stimulation. It encourages the development of something new. We are often inspired because we like the character or spirit of an object, not because someone else did it therefore it must be “right.” Inspiration intrigues us to work towards an approach, not copy or mimic another’s. Inspiration acts as a fuel to catapult us in our own direction. Inspiration, for me, is trying something different.
— Brian Hoff’s Design Cubicle | Logo and Web Design - Part 2
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It’s The Little Things :: Echo Enduring Blog
From my perspective, the little things in design are all those finer details, which, though they may often go unnoticed by the most non-designers, still work to complete a design and give it that professional polish that separates the attractive from the truly beautiful.
