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Some time ago I was looking for a developer for an application I was designing. The guys at Underlined decided to help me out with development, and so the Kana Master story began. This weekend the app got approved on the App Store (after 10 days… jeez… compare that to deploying a website update). You […]
I don’t know what’s happening lately, maybe it’s because I’m in Japan, or maybe because we finally reached a certain point in tech, but every 2 weeks there is some new announcement that makes me feel like I am living in the future. Just a few days ago I saw a video of 2 guys […]
One of my main software projects (which I unfortunately can tell nothing about) is close to a first release. The developers are working hard to iron out the last bugs. As the designer I suddenly found myself with a lot of free time on my hands. My dream has always been to make a movie. […]
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The Death of the Agency Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: “Now this doesn’t mean that agencies won’t struggle. With services like SquareSpace and Shopify eating into the lower end of the market, I think many smaller agencies or individuals will find it difficult to complete.” I think the opposite is true, services like Squarespace and Shopify […]
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Taco Bell recently lobbied the Unicode Consortium to add a taco emoji to its keyboard. The brand circulated a Change.org petition that’s secured 30,000 signatures. Here’s Why Your Favorite Brands Are Making Their Own Emoticons →
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There’s another alternative too. Companies like Automattic (WordPress) require a one month no-obligation trial before any new employee is officially hired. This works for them, but can have its downsides too. The lack of commitment on the company’s behalf may deter potential candidates. This is clearly a cost Automattic is willing to take though, as […]
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I have a side project related to learning Japanese. You can find a demo here. I’m looking for a Javascript developer to improve it so we can launch a version on the app store. We can do a revenue split depending on how well it does. For me this is a side project to experiment […]
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The end of the year traditionally comes with tons of end of year lists. Like many people I have a love/hate relationship with these kinds of lists. I love them because I like to discover new things. I hate them because they always promote the latest and greatest when it’s not always the latest and […]
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According to an episode of The Newsroom, the Bloomberg terminal is a $24,000 machine used wanted by traders to be able to watch the markets as closely as possible. According to their website it’s a software solution these days. Whatever may be the case, I thought the UI looked interesting. It seems pretty standard for […]
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For me, this is the quickest way to convert and optimize a bunch of images. This example converts a bunch of PNGs in JPGs and resizes them to a width of 1100 pixels. It then opens ImageOptim to further optimize the output. Install ImageOptim Install ImageMagick – if you have Brew the quickest way is: […]