Homelessness is not a state, but a feeling. And what we deem as maturity is, according to my younger doppelgänger-like counterpart, willingness to pass up and die a little bit more inside.

One more curio: blog theme¹ finally tweaked. No commenting as of now.

“Insightful, and not negative”

Reason why I adore living where the best and brightest of the swarm are. Alright — “covet”. New roomie was awfully exhilarated upon spotting Gruber’s new tagline. We spent a fine hour coming up with an ancient Chinese translation, in temporary vain.

Twitter Anywhere / mono.twitterEngine

Vincent raved much about it (“Fun, but it’s buggy”), partially because that I haven’t pushed a working copy of mono.twitterEngine yet. Now it seems that the low-level work could be completely avoided, and if everything is transposed we’ll have mono.twitterEngine concentrate on acting as a persistance layer.

I am thinking of this pattern:

var twit = mono.twitterEngine({

    account: 'evadne',
    retrieveMessagesNewerThanID: 16384,
    retrieveMessagesOlderThanID: 1048576,
    delegate: this

});

var twitDeux = mono.twitterEngine('foo', function newTweetHandler () {

    //  …

});

this.monoTwitterEngineRetrievedNewTweets = function (predicateObject, sender) {

    //  …

}

Alas, forgive my Cocoa-headedness.

“Looks like an engineer designed it”

This quote deserves its place within Clients From Hell². The most despicable aspect of this quote is that it was directed at a visual / UI designer who happens to write code that pawns what the peeps within that shop — which, miserably, developed a virtual keyboard for production, without designing an API for the much-adored “backspace” key — produces, from its supervisor. Turns out that working with a colleague might help immensely (“I am the front-end person, and he does the coding”, instead of “Oh hell yes it all comes from a single person, speaking”).

This aforementioned company pitches its solution as low-cost and “easy to implement”, and plans to sell it thru Amazon.

RGBA

Vincent and I regularly attend a weekly meetup called RGBA to catch up with a few web designer friends. We do run a blog and, though it might not be as insightful, it is definitely not negative.

On Iridia

The whole is larger than the sum of the parts; that is the sole rationale why Iridia ought to exist. More on this later.

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Passing as a feminine entity today. Finally got hair magic working. Major goal of 2010 is to transition.

Got my “first” (in a more serious tone) polaroid developed, and am very happy about it:

A Pictorial Update of the Week

Tuber

See http://tuber.monoceroi.com for more information. Tuber lets you watch six videos simultaneously, but hackers can easily give it a twist. (hint: change tbConfig.dimensions, then hit tbActions.init(); to see as many videos as you would, if you have a giant display.)

I do feel like Leeloo while playing with this.

Next stop: a photostream visualizer that actually tells stories. This is quite difficult and may take a long time.

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Nota

The breeze that kisses my face in 4 a.m. visits paid to the streets around the habitat feels yet so cruel that I can see Neil (cp. Mysterious Skin) staring back in the reflection.

Feeling flat, I am well.

Those which are truly exciting does not actively arouse a wave before they came.

Same principle applies to the Cloud App, presumably the highest hyped and most disappointing Mac application of the year. Private betas were sent out delayed by an entire month, and when the second patch of 200 beta-testers were invited after the initial 1000 (add 2 more weeks) their infrastructure still isn’t finished.

“How do I access the files in the cloud and zap the ones no longer desirable?” One developer asked. “Hi, we’re working on this, ” a voice came from the cloud. True story from the vine.

Heck, Dropbox rules. And if you were going to show, show a finished product. Premature debut still is a debut, and people remember every debut fondly. Debuting in an unfinished fashion, Cloud is in hot water.

Let me digress and introduce some ideas presented in Agile Web Development and Joel’s advice on showing betas to customers (The Iceberg Secret). Show a finished mockup and people think your software rocks, even before you’ve written a single line of code. Show a sketch, and people understand that it’s only a sketch.

Instead of fixing their product, they are bashing a desperado who happened to like their blog layout so much that he stole the entire .css file. Dear, why the hell do you have to add a :before tag instead of simply renaming the file? And have I mentioned that its icon closely resembles MobileMe’s?

Cloud is dubbed every Mac user’s wet dream. My empirical, personal results say that a single programmer’s quote, or a line of overset text would ruin an entire wet dream . It is like playing in a theatre: everything must go in the right direction, and the slightest glitch would ruin the show. I quit playing in the Cloud after five minutes of initial use. Dear Cloud, please give me an opportunity to even love you.

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v.i.

Must make an experimental piece based on Pamelia Kurstin, TED 2002. Amazing piece.

A Side Project (yet to be developed)

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Retake

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Watered