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briangonzalezon The Hardest Part of ‘Cyber Addiction’ Is Making It Go Away

Don't underestimate Mike Dubin, founder of DSC. Remember that guy from the original video? He's super thoughtful and into stuff like this.

briangonzalezon The Hardest Part of ‘Cyber Addiction’ Is Making It Go Away

Candidly, does that bother you?

briangonzalezon Adaptive Backgrounds – A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors

The plugin uses the getImageData method on the Image object. It iterates over a portion of the pixels in an image, keeping track of color occurrences. It then returns the most dominant color and any other highly occurrent colors.

briangonzalezon Adaptive Backgrounds – A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors

I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.

In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.

briangonzalezon Ask HN: Best place to sell unused domains?

http://namebox.io/

briangonzalezon Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, many new brand icons

FontPrep has built in subset options, which work really well for subsetting FontAwesome.

I'll give away a few free licenses for anyone curious, just hit me up on Twitter. @brianmgonzalez

http://fontprep.com

briangonzalezon Poll: Have you run a marathon?

I have fall in love with Strava - minimal iOS running app (http://app.strava.com/mobile). I am not affiliated with them in any way.

I can also second Hal Higdon's site above.

A lot of people in a recent half marathon I ran were using the half marathon as a staging ground for their full marathon. By running a half marathon/5k/10k you can get a feel for what running an actual race feels like, which is invaluable.

briangonzalezon Ask HN: Reliable vps?

My vote goes to:

1. IntoVPS

2. Linode

I put Linode because they donated a year of 512MB to run FontPrep on, so kudos to them. (http://fontprep.com)

briangonzalezon Rainbow: your code is beautiful, show it off

I didn't write it, but I've been trying Prettify and Rainbow. Going to use Rainbow for now and see how it goes.

briangonzalezon 1and1's Ruby FAQ

Exactly!

briangonzalezon Unheap - A tidy collection of jQuery plugins

Worst mobile experience ever.

briangonzalezon WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a script. No servers, no deployment

I mean the nav, the "Picks, Popular, Recent" at the top, etc. etc.

briangonzalezon WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a script. No servers, no deployment

This site seems sort of ripped off from codepen.io :/

briangonzalezon Apple uses PNG images to explain why you should use SVG & CSS

Really Apple? Why not just throw a couple of SVG images in there and a little CSS and call it a day.

It was likely more work to make those buttons and images in Photoshop.

briangonzalezon Old woman's face in pure CSS (and a script to make your own)

Thanks! I have been playing around with the script all night and getting some really neat results.

briangonzalezon How the Internet will (one day) transform government

I love how Clay thinks society should implement git-like concepts into how we interact. Could it actually work?

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Seems like it already is, to a degree.

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Especially to join a community full of programmers.

briangonzalezon Show HN: Our first OSX app, FontPrep, free for 24 hours

Neya, good point. This is what a two man team looks like trying to release a product in 3 weeks. We'll be sprucing the site a little more in the coming days. We chose to focus on the usability of the app more than the site. Hopefully that translates well to our users.

briangonzalezon Show HN: Our first OSX app, FontPrep, free for 24 hours

From our website:

FontPrep converts all of your TTF & OTF files to web-ready formats: WOFF, EOT, and SVG. FontPrep also fires up a server listening on port 7500 so you can easily view and test your fonts.

briangonzalezon Show HN: Our first OSX app, FontPrep, free for 24 hours

If you go to fontprep.com you'll see a demo video, which is quite helpful.

briangonzalezon Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings

True, but I have seen -- $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) -- used quite a bit in the wild, especially in MacRuby projects.

briangonzalezon My next text editor

Marco talked in Build & Analyze about loving multiple cursors, which I believe emacs/vim don't support: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bPRhFHEz0

briangonzalezon No more scratch.txt on my desktop

Where do they live on your hard drive? Do you ever have the need to look at your scratch files from the past?