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Make stuff

People can define themselves in many ways, be it the people they are with, places they have visited, things they have experienced, or in this case, things they have created. Looking at what has always attracted me in computers, the latter is the way I would like to define myself the most. In that way, computers are the ultimate creativity…

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Tech pet peeves

This is 2015. Email has been around for decades and yet, both iOS apps for Facebook and Google + do not have a ‘Share by email’ option. iOS has a universal sharing mechanism usable across multiple apps and both Facebook and Google+ apps are not making use of it. They act as walled gardens. Keeping you in and forcing you…

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Cool surprise in the mail. One more week to #getmoving #TEDxJNJ http://t.co/fDajYAyGNx

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Why is https so slow and unresponsive on hotel wifi? #firstworldproblems

How to enable root user and password on MacOS Yosemite

Here is another example of Apple making things easy for average users and convoluted for more advanced users. Trying to set up git on MacOS, you have to run something like this early on: $ git config –global user.name “User Name” $ git config –global user.email “user@address.com” This should work, unless you installed Xcode some time before and forgotten all about…

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Why is posts sharing so abysmal on iOS in Twitter, FB, Google+? #walledgardens

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Delegating to @rescuetime for time tracking and analysis. Good results so far but can’t shake the feeling of big brother.

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Are browser tabs the new Inbox? How long until there is a #tabszero approach to getting things done?