Today I Learned

I was generating logos for Git Notify’s Chrome Extension with the help of GoSpaces Tools. I have got a generic one in a decent sized banner. I had to crop off in the centre.

imagemagick to the rescue. but the args? A simple Google search solved it.

convert input.jpg -gravity center -crop 25x25+0+0 output.jpg

source: Image Magick Forum

Fred Weinhaus has put together lots of Image Magick scripts. One I was looking was to crop in the middle is called squareup.

Look here if you want to generate your own logos

git log --reverse

Displays logs in the reverse order

Concurrency Is Not Parallelism

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• Design on various devices

• Apple Ads from ’80s

• CSS border-radius Conference talk from Lea Verou

• A Food Printer. Its real!

• Used the postbox after a long time

• Apple Status

• History of the Command key on Mac

• What non-tech questions to ask When outsourcing to a development team …

• Small Victories is a simple way to make a website out of the contents of a Dropbox folder.

• Pluralsight acquires PeepCode

• Code on the Cloud (through the browser) - Choose one

  • Nitrous.io provides you with an individual server to get started with and you can buy up more nitrous based on your requirement.
  • Cloud9 IDE (free version) shares your server with about 1000s of other users on OpenShift on an 8Gig server

• Chromecast for $35 (Watch movies directly on your TV)

• Ethics are subjective. There are no right answers

• For the fitness freaks and enthusiasts out there - There is a stackexchange site for that.

• HTTPS explained in the real world

• Unable to find reservations in a restaurant ? There could be a bot blocking them all 😃

• Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for life which is not quite true in the programming world

• Cool SSH info background image on iTerm

• vim configuration

  • http://www.catonmat.net/blog/vim-plugins-surround-vim/
  • http://www.vimninjas.com/2012/09/03/5-plugins-you-should-put-in-your-vimrc/
  • http://statico.github.io/vim.html

• Comics B.C. | Dilbert | Joy of Tech | Calvin and Hobbes

• The digital collection of handheld electronic games

• Flynn - Open source PaaS powered by Docker is looking for sponsors

• Flipkart’s Payment Gateway - payzippy

• A successful entrepreneur actively finds and uncovers opportunities for financial gain in the world around them. Read the full article

• I switched from using AOL Reader to Feedly.

  • Missing the background tabs from AOL Reader - Articles open in a background window when I use ‘v’ to open them.
  • Well, there’s an extension for that to open in background tabs with “;” as default.
  • Feedly is way faster than AOL Reader, takes less than few seconds.

• Use chrome://net-internals/#dns to look and clear the Chrome DNS cache

• I ordered a package from Amazon.in, but their shipping partner still informs that they received the package before I placed the order. Reminded me of Amazon’s Yesterday Service.

[ Art of PI

• CloudFlare Server Setup - Current and Next Generation

• Leapmotion has launched - Engadget Review - Buy

• about 500 million SIMs impacted (estimated 1/12th of all SIMs in the world) - https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/ | ARS

• Art pi, phi & e

• DarkJPEG - https://github.com/darkjpeg/darkjpeg.github.io/

• Plug - add storage in your home - scale horizontally KickStarter

• Namecheap providing .us domain for $0.98/1st year

• Just made - repos.in - Well my creative and css skill aint gone no where

• I own 10 .com, 20 .in, 1 .am suffixed domains

• $("#content a[href^='http://']").attr("target","_blank"); - Open external links in a new tab Source

• Things First-Time Founders Regret Saying

• Code Search API from Github

• Naming Your Blog: How to Create Catchy Blog Names

• Elegantly written article about handling production errors

• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software Book from PragProg

• http://powercuts.in - Crowd sourced way of knowing if there is power in an area. An interesting idea. (Electricity is still a common problem in India in the summer Apr - Jun).

• http://codeschool.org/ - Basics of languages, OOP, sorting, crypto, data structures

• Origins of Airbnb name and company

• Solving the wrong problem - Well, aint we all ?

• Difference between Concurrent and Parallel Programming - You ought to know this

• The Silk Road - Great photographs

The Three Laws of Programming Language Design Source

• What you get right, nobody mentions it.
• What you get wrong, people bitch about.
• What is difficult to understand you have to explain to people over and over again.

• Don’t buy any charges on the cheap. They may electrocute you or other damages could occur. Source

• Try out Woopra

  • Real time analytics
  • Cool interface w/ timezone etc.
  • Real time chat (this was a surprise)
  • Free for non-commercial setup ( Your personal blogs or home pages for analytics )

• Try Bowling, its got BEER! - B.C.

• I dunno… I kinda figured teachers slept in coffins all summer - Calvin & Hobbes

• Briggs confessed that he is a drug addict spoiler - Graceland

• Nokogiri 1.6.0 now is packaged with sources of libxml2 and libxslt that are required to be installed.

• Open Source as a business - The timeline of Sentry app (side project from Disqus).

• Got my reader list under 300 200 150. Sometimes I get the feeling that Aol Reader is not pulling feeds from all the feeds, could switch back to feedly.

• Aol Reader has this nice feature of opening tabs in the background (was a PIA in late Google Reader)

• 8 things forgotten for launch

• How follower.io saved $3500/year on software

• Inspirational Quotes Wallpapers

• Snowden’s Dead Man’s Switch - Any real-world situation involves multiple adversaries, and it’s important to keep all of them in mind when designing a security system.

• Khan Academy Development

  1. Shipping beats perfection.
  2. Be open. Share your work.
  3. Anybody can fix anything.