toddmorey

I found and loved Riot, too. Even used it to build a medium-sized application. At a time when React was in flux (pun intended, I guess) it was the first implementation of the custom component model th…

For a SaaS company like yours, I would do a site that's static content served from a CDN (generated by something like jekyll and friends). Obviously a site deployed that way is largely fail-proof…

It's not really "auto-draw" as much as it's a visual search in which you suggest shapes and it looks across the collection for visually similar icons. Impressive and fun, but not y…

I feel like services like speakerdeck encourage this type of bad behavior, as people are trying to build decks that can be flipped through after the actual presentation. A deck that presents well with…

I'll put the math behind the numbers aside just for a moment to consider this is still a pretty impressive feat. I wouldn't have believed it 24 months ago. Also wouldn't have predicted …

My family has migrated more purchases to Amazon than I even realized. I got tipped off when I noticed that now the recycle bin fills up so much faster than the trash can. Which brings up the main issu…

That's not really against the commenter's point, though. I think the argument is that Apple had a clearly defined and differentiated product with the iPhone, and model creep can be considere…

Late reply, but content authors only need to create a GitHub account for this cms. They don't need to run git or anything else locally.

Contentful is nice and since it's been around longer, it's a bit more baked. However, there's an amazing feature of static sites that are based off of local content (markdown and yaml f…

There's a markdown-it plugin that implements container blocks as described: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it-container Not an official part of the spec, but certai…

Would be interesting to get a comprehensive list of what is and isn't available without a warrant from a judge. For example... "Police can get phone records without a warrant thanks to a 197…

I've thought about work and motivation a lot. A few quick points: 1. A friend of mine came up with a formula for motivation at work that you can say in one sentence. I love it because it's b…

"..the privacy laws adapted by the FCC in the past have only been applied to ISPs and not other edge providers... So in short, they are just bad laws." I feel that builds the argument that t…

I feel any parent with a teenager who's tried to monitor her Facebook account can see where this is headed. This policy is incredibly ignorant of how online communities work and where communicati…

Pretty sure AWS has most of their core engineering talent in Seattle.

If they are smart, they'll pull a Facebook / Instagram and just leave it to continue working. Also, I'd say a large percentage of Trello users are outside of the classical Jira camp, so…

Dating myself by mentioning this, but when I was in college Pearl Jam (huge at the time) tried to go around Ticketmaster and got their asses handed to them. They basically had to end up cancelling and…

Netlify is a good option, too, with continuous deployment and SSL. It's free for open source projects.

I agree. Having something a bit polarizing is good news.

I think the name will work out just fine (witness MySQL and PostgreSQL). From looking at the docs, the two-way binding seems entirely optional and I can't find anything that would prevent a devel…

Always one of my favorite features of riotjs

I've always thought that Andrew Wyeth's paintings were more troubling than comforting. I know nothing of the man and his politics, but to me there has always been a pensive sadness to the wo…

Those photos are absolutely stunning.

"Clean coal" is the e-cigarettes of energy.

On the other hand, my phone is the one device that's always with me, so it's one area where I am tempted to spend a bit more. However, what I'd pay extra for is better stability and a b…

Any plans for an API?

How I Built This is also available on the NPR One app, where I discovered it. (Guy Raz also hosts the TED Radio Hour, which I don't think is as good.) NPR One is like Pandora for public radio and…

Yes and ignores the multi-device climate where the designs ultimately will live. Makes me think the pixel-perfect prototype is creating a bit of a fiction. Of course most good designers keep that in m…

I came into the ownership experience pretty nervous that the touchscreen would be a distraction. But it works and works well. The screen is huge and all the targets are a comfortable size. You don…