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michaelx

133 karma · joined January 25, 2012

Co-Founder of mymorningroutine.com. I like tech, design, traveling and startups. ✈
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michaelx··on Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader
I also use Miniflux and would appreciate Fever support.
michaelx··on Blocking website ads with a hosts file
Second Pi-hole + uBlock Origin. Just a bummer that the Safari fork of uBlock Origin seems to be EOL because of the new restrictions in Safari.
michaelx··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2015)
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Front-end development with a focus on HTML5, (S)CSS, JavaScript, React, and Liquid; back-end development experience with PHP, Ruby, Java, and MySQL; Git; Gulp.js; AWS.

Résumé/CV: http://michaelxander.com/documents/mxander-cv.pdf

Email: See CV

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Product Designer & Dev, I run an independent online magazine w/ over 5,500 subscribers.

Mostly interested in product design roles.

michaelx··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2015)
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Front-end development with a focus on HTML5, (S)CSS, JavaScript, React, and Liquid; back-end development experience with PHP, Ruby, Java, and MySQL; Git; Gulp.js; AWS.

Résumé/CV: http://michaelxander.com/documents/mxander-cv.pdf

Email: See CV

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Product Designer & Dev, I run an independent online magazine w/ over 5,000 subscribers.

michaelx··on Show HN: Morning Routine Statistics and M.G. Siegler's Morning Routine
Thanks Tomas! We’re glad you dig it and looking forward to read your book :)
michaelx··on Show HN: Morning Routine Statistics and M.G. Siegler's Morning Routine
I've been publishing morning routines for over two and a half years, and earlier this month we launched a statistics page combining all the data from our 135 (and counting) published routines:

http://mymorningroutine.com/statistics/

We'd love to know your thoughts! If you're interested, our interviewee this week is M.G. Siegler:

http://mymorningroutine.com/mg-siegler/

michaelx··on Tim Ferriss interviews Alexis Ohanian (reddit and hipmunk) on Y Combinator …
This is EP36 from The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast).

Shownotes:

Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: - On the Forbes “30 under 30” list multiple times (then he turned 30)- A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk- In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most selective startup “accelerator”…

michaelx··on Show HN: Download organizer for Mac
Second that. Hazel is a huge time-saver and I prefer it’s versatile features.
michaelx··on Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
Second that. I’m still happy with Slate, but prefer an active developed solution.
michaelx··on Kowloon Walled City
I‘m also fascinated by Kowloon Walled City since the first time I saw it in the Dreamcast game Shenmue 2.

One of the best documentaries IMHO is the following 4 part series from 1989 which shows the everyday life in KWC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

I also recommend the already mentioned book City of Darkness and movie Chungking Express. Additional Jackie Pullinger‘s books "Crack In The Wall: Life & Death in Kowloon Walled City" (http://amzn.to/1nNKkuq) and "Chasing the Dragon" (http://amzn.to/1kd9zWc) are worth a read.

michaelx··on Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
I'm using Arq since 2011 to backup my most important data to Amazon S3+Glacier and can highly recommend it.

Today v4 has been released and comes with new storage options (GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP aka your own server), multiple backup targets, unified budget across S3 and S3/Glacier, Email notifications and many more clever features.

michaelx··on The sad state of website password standards
Great summary and essential for every new and existing product. It's a shame how many brand-new startups still limit the password length for example. Really, it's one of the first things users do. Don't establish a relationship with a mistake, it's a burning bridge.
michaelx··on IOS Goodies - Week 8
Looks pretty interesting, the whole blog idea in general! Thanks for sharing it with us, I didn't know it and it seems like a good addition to the fabulous http://nshipster.com.
michaelx··on Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people within 1 mile
Agree. It could be very useful at events and a good addition to Twitter's nearby feature, because of the intention to actually meet people.
michaelx··on 1Password 4 for Mac is here
The guys of Binarynights (ForkLift) are working on an alternative called Locko: http://www.binarynights.com/blog/

It's available as an early beta and pretty promising. Competition is always good and Apple will pushing AgileBits further when they release Mavericks with the iCloud Keychain.

michaelx··on Humble Indie Bundle 9 released
In case FEZ is grey on your Mac, @flibitijibibo already fixed it. The second binary works for me: https://getsatisfaction.com/polytron/topics/humble_bundle_ma...