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Goodness. First came across his work watching Silicon Spin on ZDTV while I was in high school. Such a legend.

lee_aon New startup sells coffee through SSH

not normal price for anything you'd find in most grocery stores.

but as an anecdote, I get a lot of coffee from the Fellow Drops subscription service, and those bags average around $25 - often for less than 12oz.

lee_aon Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

The file format/After Effects exporter used is from:

https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin

which was pretty simple to use.

I saw Lottie first, found bodymovin, and had an After Effects animation in our React app in about 15 minutes.

edit: I'm not affiliated with either project.

lee_aon Vesper, Adieu

I'm not certain if it's still the case, but Vesper Sync was originally written using Azure Mobile Services.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesp...

During many Azure ad spots on The Talk Show, it had also been mentioned that Vesper used it.

lee_aon TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99

While I'm sure many of them actually are sold out (and yours might be by now), if anyone else lives near a Wal-Mart make sure to not just call but go by the store and look around.

At mine, they had moved them from their original place to another display on the other side of department, and as I walked up behind a couple of employees I overheard one telling the other that they'd been telling everyone who called or asked that they were sold out (in an attempt to ensure there were a few left to buy at the end of the day I assume). They had a stack left.