evilstreak

The signer_keys_and_uids example can be much cleaner using Enumerator#with_object:

signers.map.with_object({}) { |signer, result| result[signer.key_id] = signer.uids }

In Safari this page swallows all key presses. Even ⌘+W. Very annoying.

How did your site make me feel? Intrigued and frustrated.

I love looking at screenshots of apps and services to see how they work, what sort of information they expose, and what sort of value I can get from it. The screenshots you've got in your carousel look interesting, but they scroll past too damned fast. There's no time for me to investigate the screen to pick out details.

I'd love to see manual paging through those screenshots with some words describing what I'm looking at, but I'd settle for a pause button!

One other thought: have you experimented with reversing the order of the faces, so it goes happy-meh-sad? I feel like I'm drawn to the sad face most, though that could be because the colour of it contrasts with your very green header.

I find that my motivation is self sustaining as long as I get started. When I'm feeling demotivated it usually manifests as putting off getting started. "I'll start after I've read Twitter". "I'll just read these articles from Hacker News". "It's almost lunch times, so I'll get started after I've eaten something". And then it's the end of the day, I've done nothing, and I feel really crap about it.

Every time the trick is to just get myself started. Work out a way to reduce the commitment in getting started. Never tell yourself you'll settle down to 10 hours straight work after you read that article, send this tweet, or reply to that email. Instead break down your todo list into tiny chunks, and just do the first thing. Or use something like Pomodoro and just sit down to do 25 minutes work.

Copy and paste template letters tend to be treated as less important than letters written in the constituent's own words[1].

If you genuinely care about this issue, make the time to write about the concerns you have yourself.

[1] http://www.writetothem.com/about-qa#formletters

Credit to John Hemming (Bruce's MP) for actually engaging in the comments.

I don't expect my elected representatives to always agree with me, and I don't even expect them to always be well informed. Discussing their position and being open to changing it is about the best I can hope for, and John Hemming seems to be doing that here.