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patmurraydevon Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

Thanks :)

patmurraydevon Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

https://atlas.patmurray.co

A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany.

It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!

patmurraydevon Who Killed the Junior Developer?

Completely agree, among my peers at university those who had spent the last four years creating a network on Twitter and Github did significantly better at finding a graduate job than those who didn't.

Most of my friends have the job they have because of a combination of Twitter and attending conferences on discounted student tickets.

patmurraydevon Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone

I've always had success with this web based [1] converter, it does all the conversion locally, but can take a while on a few years worth of data.

[1]: http://ericwolter.com/projects/health-export.html

patmurraydevon Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

I wholeheartedly agree, Typora is my favourite markdown editor. For those few times you really need to just edit the markdown you can quickly turn off rendering and switch into source mode by hitting cmd-/.

patmurraydevon Apple Watch 3

Apple specifically called out skiing and boarding in the keynote when they mentioned the altimeter. Which I'm really excited for!

Plus the current generations work fine in alpine conditions, from personal experience.

patmurraydevon Instagram CEO on Stories: Don’t Call It a Copycat

I disagree with your first point, if you're using Instagram you're accepting it will be using a lot of data. Further, part of the thing that makes Stories a great feature is the smooth storytelling that would be lost if a "Download this video" button appeared.

I completely agree with your second point however. Make it more like Snapchat and have both types of direct messages; ephemeral and permanent.

patmurraydevon Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession

Not sure what you're polling, but it says it's not available in Australia despite Australia being the first release country. Might just want to check that out.

patmurraydevon Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week

At our school in Australia, everyone was issued laptops last year. The rollout began with seniors (y12) and progressed down through the years. Within about 2 hours of having the machines most of my year had installed chrome, bypassed the web filtering, installed iTunes and copied their music to the laptops. The school knew immediately, and came around to the classrooms to inform everyone that we had now been restricted to 10GB of space on the laptops, and that they had removed iTunes and chrome.

For the remainder of the year everyone found ways to play games and to log onto various school servers and mess with things. It was more a point of we could. A lot of people still used pen and paper, or their own laptops. The most common use of the school issued laptops was free Internet, and thus youtube/ pandora.

From my understanding the younger years don't act such ways as we did being in year 12, and I think it's just a time thing. For them the school laptop is part of their schooling equipment, but for us we went through 10yrs of schooling without a laptop, so getting one was novel.

patmurraydevon 250,000 English words currently available as Twitter handles

Most of these works appear to be unavailable or banned... Unfortunately.