ZaneClaes

Author of the blog here. Thanks for posting. Feel free to drop me a line on the site if you want to chat about the project(s).

Yikes, thanks for the heads-up. Just tested on Firefox on a Pixel 3 and see what you mean about the text — had to fix a bug in the Wordpress theme's CSS.

Would you mind sharing where you are? The site is mostly delivered through AWS CloudFront, but I don't pay for the global edge nodes — just US and Europe. Google (and I) generally benchmark it at ~0.5 sec, but that's here in the US.

Interesting. I haven’t done a direct comparison, but that pricing is darn good. I may have to migrate if my traffic grows and it’s easy to use with mops.

Thanks! I do plan to write some follow-ups on how the kiosk is used, but was afraid of the post getting too long. TBH the biggest benefit for me is what I said in the first sentence: that guests can use the kiosk (friends find it easy to use, and I'm also an Airbnb host sometimes).

Curiously, I've had the same problem with 3 different devices of the same model, including using 2 different MacBook Pros. My partner and I have both gotten used to locking our screens when walking away from our desks.

Yeah! There's strong evidence to support gray matter increase in the prefrontal cortex, which would also support executive function improvement.

This is anecdotal. The article discusses the fact that you THINK you have these different styles. But TONS of research shows that the best approach to learning does not take this into account.

My experience here is with my iPhone & iPad. Until recently, there was no way to use Dvorak with them, but I seemed to switch seamlessly. Though, there's something to be said about potentially different motor memory being used for thumbs vs. full finger layouts.

Perhaps... but even for a programmer, I'd submit that there's still plenty of "regular communication" (emails, slack/gchats, etc.) which would benefit from higher WPM.

Right! I find it fascinating that "beginner's mind" is a concept spoken about in Buddhism a lot. I get the same sense when I travel to a country where I don't speak the local language. All of a sudden, everything is fresh and new. Better than the wildest drug ;)

Very good points! I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of being conscious of your brain rewiring itself. It's a very strange feeling. Another time when I've felt it, though, is when I experimented using only my left hand for a month (including for writing homework assignments, etc.) It was very slow-going at first, but I found myself approaching things in a novel way... it's really weird to try to explain.

Oh yes, that's a great way of putting it! People disparage the idea of "wearing masks," yet we need to do so in order to function in society. I use a different tone and language with my boss compared to my best friend, and that's a good thing.

Glad you liked it, btw.

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Yes, exactly! He's the quiet winner of history.

Back up now!

Thanks!

Fair criticism, though largely due to the fact that the server is completely overloaded :(

It's not PHP's fault, I just like arbitrarily hating on technologies that are out of vogue.

I'm reusing PHP code from 5+ years ago. So, yep.

Thanks for the heads up. I use PHP only to hack together quick side projects... but yet another reason it sucks ;(

Love the idea! Will need to look into how viable it is on my web host, but definitely worth considering.

Thanks! Fwiw you don't have to attach a folder, and you can attach one later via settings. I've been thinking of making a web app version :)

Thanks! I had it my head for 6 months and finally decided to build it, glad I'm not the only one who wanted it.

Heya, I've used the D+Q layout (I'm the original author of the blog, btw) on Windows. It works well and I have no major complaints, though sometimes you'll need to do some custom setup in games (eg, change key bindings, since games frequently don't respect D+Q).

That's exactly how I feel about it. We've gotten some great feedback, and I attribute it exactly to the fact that the email is personalized, and includes an introduction to me.

The idea of using "beta" language is interesting. It sounds like a big part of managing expectations is how big the users think the startup is. As they think it's bigger, they expect less attention... for better or for worse.

Nice!

That's a really good point -- I'm going to look for a way to do that.

We just released our API to allow others to build tools even more powerful than Google Reader. We're not interested in building our own client, but we think our API could let others create beautiful news readers with deep social integration. https://streamified.me/developer/

Fixed!

Oh, yikes! Weird, wonder why it works on browsers, then. Hm. I'll have to dig into this ;)