Plastruder Assembly, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
This is the last component of the Makerbot. I’m taking my time with it.
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MakerBot Power, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
My MakerBot CNC Printer arrived today.
I got excited and took a lot of pictures.
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Handcrafted Site Clinic
Handcrafted Site Clinic, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
This past weekend, I went up to the Handcrafted CSS Workshop in Salem, MA.
It was a lot of fun. Be sure to check out Jason Robb’s sketchnotes of the workshop. I would post mine, but his are better.
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On Heuristics and Human Factors
Wil Shipley:
The latter is the touchstone of great design: we must strive to make our programs require as little learning as possible on the user’s part. Each little thing they have to learn about our program is another obstacle to them using it fully, another tiny chunk of enjoyment stripped from their experience.
(Via [...]
R.I.P. Rorschach
Rorschach, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Rorschach died last week.
I said goodbye to him when he went up to Massachusetts with Cecily, but didn’t expect it to be for good. His death was sudden and without warning: Cecily doesn’t know for certain what caused him to get sick so quickly.
One day, he was fine. The [...]
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Sleepy Rabbit
Sleepy, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Because that’s how I feel right now.
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Keep it… simple?
OpenCaster is an open-source TS streaming application by Avalpa Digital Engineering.
They have a mantra: “Keep it Simple, Stupid!“
As mantras go, that isn’t bad. We’ve all encountered the KISS principle at some point. Simple enough, let’s move on…
Keep it simple stays for “don’t complicate things if it’s not necessary”.
Um, yes. I guess it does. [...]
Happy Independence Day!
To all my friends Stateside, happy 4th of July.
To everyone else: Enjoy the extra bandwidth on WoW as Americans play outside for once.
John Scalzi was Right
Was taken by this quote:
And while we’re agreeing with John Scalzi, let’s also note that yes, honestly, the attitudes of the “big three” toward electronic submission really have, over the last decade, gone from “practical response to unsolved problems of electronic mail and text” to “old man [...]
