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This works especially well when combined with the Cookie auto-delete extension.

My hands are almost always cold in the winter here (NE Ohio) and I've found a couple of things that help with that while still letting me get work done.

Fingerless mittens are one option, and while they don't cover your actual fingers, just warming your hands up helps a lot. I can still type and use a trackpad just fine with them.

If you don't need to use a touch-sensitive device with them, the really thin, lightweight gloves that are meant to be a layer underneath a heavier pair actually work great. I can work in them as normal and only give up a little bit of my normal typing speed; not enough to be a hindrance when doing software development since typing speed isn't the bottleneck anyway.

I am decidedly not a coffee snob, but agree that almond milk in coffee isn't great. I've tended to use coconut milk because it has some creaminess to it that seems to work well in coffee.

I'll have to see if I can find oat milk to try.

I've commented on this previously, but I think there's some aspects of the tech industry that really do lead to burnout, depression, and cynicism among the people who work in it - and this applies to both software dev and IT support.

We spend so much time dealing with tools that tend to be extremely pedantic and detail-focused. We're constantly thinking about all of the stuff that's gone wrong with our applications previously, what new things could go wrong with them now, and how we avoid that. For building robust software, or robust IT infrastructure deployments, that's a good thing, but I personally find it somewhat difficult to turn this mindset off at the end of the day.

I've been in the industry for 20 years now and this stuff still gets to me sometimes. The last year or two I've been trying to establish a consistent meditation practice just to help get out of my head a little bit and distance myself from some of the stress and cynicism, though I'm not sure how much it's actually helped yet.

My day job involves a lot of Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices stuff, and the way we do builds and deployments is in flux... so every time I'm looking at a new project at work, almost the first thing I do every time is go hunting for the Docker artifacts to figure out what deployment looks like.

Apparently this habit is now rubbing off on open-source projects, too. :)

Cool project! I'm actually in the process of rebuilding my personal site as a static site and if I decide to add comments back in (I'm torn on this), this looks like it's going to be pretty high on my list.

As an aside, I was looking at your source on Gitlab, and if I'm reading your Dockerfile correctly, it's a really nice example of using multi-stage builds to build within Docker but produce a final image that doesn't have the full build system in it. This is something I'd been intending to look into for a personal project, so thanks for saving me a bunch of time. :)

I think there's a few things about the software industry that make it really easy to become depressed, cynical, and jaded. We spend quite a lot of time being pedantic, fixating on all kinds of specific details, and especially, thinking about many different ways our applications can go wrong. In the context of writing robust software, that's a good thing, but it can also be really difficult to turn it off in the other parts of your life.

That article is from August 22 - I just checked in the MAS and the most recent Airmail update was the 25th and the changes specifically mention a URL security fix, so they may have addressed this already.

I've also used Airmail on and off for years and quite like it, on both Mac and iOS. Mail.app isn't bad, but I've used labels heavily for years, including multiple labels on emails, and Mail doesn't seem to handle that scenario very well.

Yes, I prefer not having my card details stored across so many different services. Even though I trust Netflix to be competent on security, it's one more place I have to remember to update/manage it every time I get a new card.

A friend of mine noted something I'd forgotten while we were discussing this: that cancelling a subscription through the App Store is just a few clicks. Doing it through other channels can be a tremendous pain.

Yeah, this is my problem as well. I have a really hard time coming up with ideas for a good side project, and then when I do, half the time I find out someone already implemented something like that and it feels like I'm just pointlessly reinventing the wheel.

I think I need to do a better job of reminding myself that it's not pointless as long as I learn something.

My personal favorite that I've used on occasion: "I am a horrible monster and I pray for death".

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+a+horribl...

Reading. It's faster for me, and too many videos don't have closed captioning so I miss too much of the information in them.

Great thread, lots of good responses. Here are my own answers:

1. Recreation and saving money. I really like good food, but don't always want to pay restaurant prices for it. There's a certain satisfaction in creating something delicious. It's sometimes a struggle between making time to cook at home and wanting to be lazy and just go out, though.

2. Not as much as we should. My wife prefers to plan ahead, but I'm not so good at always sticking to it.

3. We're pretty eclectic in what we cook. I enjoy Asian inspired flavors and have been intending to make more curries.

4. Not really. I have a certain affinity toward paleo, but I don't follow it too consistently. Mostly when I'm cooking I just try to eat "clean" without a lot of processed junk in it. I'd like to start baking my own bread again so I know what goes into it.

5. Several. Learn to use a knife, and keep it sharp. Get the biggest cutting board you can find. Season everything. Taste frequently, when practical (good with soups and sauces, not good with raw chicken ;)). Use a rice cooker, it's set and forget and keeps a burner (and pan) open for other things. If you have stainless steel pans, learn to use them correctly. To make it easier to slice meat thinly, put it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes first. Clean as you go. Don't be afraid to fail.

If you need something relatively fast and hands off, oven-roasted veggies and protein (particularly chicken, pork, and fish) work really well, and are much healthier than eating out.

Seriously, I can't overemphasize "keep it sharp" when it comes to knives. It's not just easier, it's also much safer. Dull knives are prone to turning and cutting things you didn't want cut, such as your fingers.

I have a Bank of America MasterCard that expired recently and they sent me a new card, but when you go to their information page about chip cards ( http://bankofamerica.com/chipcardfacts ) it seems pretty clear that it's actually chip and signature. They emphasize that if you get asked for a PIN, you should tell the merchant it only requires a signature.

I don't know enough about chip and PIN to say if it's possible, but I'm hoping that means they'll eventually move to adding a PIN too.

All that said -- my iPhone 5 is coming off contract in a few weeks now and I definitely plan on picking up an iPhone 6; I'm looking forward to seeing how well Pay works.

This looks really cool, and I signed up for the list.

That said, I'm very curious how accessible the videos will be. Screencasts are cool, but since I'm deaf, they're not always ideal for me since many of them aren't captioned and I never know if what they're showing on-screen is accompanied with a voice over to the effect of "You may see it done this way, and it's terrible, please don't do this." :)

Looking forward to seeing more about this!

I'm deaf, so I don't have quite the same needs in headphones that most people do. That said, I do sometimes like to listen to music and need isolating headphones (so they don't leak sound and annoy my coworkers) that fit comfortably over a behind the ear hearing aid.

Accordingly, I've been using a set of Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro over-the-ear headphones and I've been really happy with them. I have to adjust them a bit funny to fit over the hearing aid without causing feedback, but they're generally pretty comfortable.

They're a bit more expensive at around $175 to $200 depending on where you shop, but might be worth a look.

(Also using Airmail here, for a few weeks now.)

By default, Cmd-Delete will delete the message, Delete will archive. There is a "Use Delete Key (backspace) for Move to Trash" configuration option as well, in the General config pane.

Thanks for the tip on Quick File Creator. I'm a pretty heavy Sublime Text user and that just solved a pain point for me.

Another one that's useful for me in web-related work and not specific to any particular language is the Web Encoders plugin: https://github.com/revolunet/sublimetext-web-encoders -- I often use it when I need to test URL encoding/decoding stuff.

For the US market, there's at least one company that provides this data. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name, sorry. :(

I do know it exists, though. I used to work for a major American tire manufacturer and maintained a couple of versions of their tire selector application. They would send over a huge file (I think a spreadsheet) with a combination of every year/make/model/trim and its associated OEM tire sizes. I think we also sent over a list of our tires (models and sizes) and they would include that in the db for us. I believe it was left to us to import and normalize it, which was kind of a pain in its own right.

It seems they are in fact making some major upgrades to the developer tools, as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182632(v=vs.85)...

Some of it appears to be parity with existing dev tools for other browsers, but it looks like some very welcome improvements.

Personally, I'm intending to move mine off a mostly dead Wordpress install on Dreamhost over to something hosted on S3 and generated using Awestruct: http://awestruct.org/

I've been using it to build out a major project at work and so far I've been very pleased with it. The support for partials is a particularly attractive feature, and has worked well with the ways I've been abusing it.

I really like the idea and I will be checking this out, particularly since I have a long-ish commute to the office.

I will say, though, that I think for the way my morning routine tends to go, it would be more useful to me as a Mac app. I almost always look at my MBP in the mornings before leaving for work, but rarely make a point of checking my iPad, so I could see this being really useful for me as a full-screen Mac app, where I can just leave it running on a space. Any plans in that direction? :)

The past few times I've been to the movies it's been to Cinemark theaters since they added the cupholder-based captioning devices to almost all of their theaters a few years ago. They work well, but as the article noted, they're a pain because they're out of the line of sight and often don't want to sit still in the cupholder. When my fiancee and I went to see Les Miserables I spent pretty much the entire movie holding onto the captioning device with one hand to keep it positioned where I want it.

We have a couple of Regal theaters near us, so I'm definitely looking forward to trying this system out as well.

As for the comments on Glass -- yes, a real-time captioning device using Glass would be a killer app for me, and if it worked at all well it would be a "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" sort of thing. There would be some challenges to deal with (noisy environments, better speech recognition still -- Youtube's automatic captions still aren't there) but if they can surmount those, I'd be extremely interested.

I'm also a little bit of a (left-handed) pen geek, and I've used all three of these, plus the Hi-Tec-C. The Hi-Tec-C lays down a very nice, smooth line, but it's probably my least favorite because the narrow plastic barrel gets uncomfortable after a few minutes.

Out of the other three, the Zebra Sarasa Clip is comfortable to hold, but I don't think it writes quite as smoothly. The Signo and G-2 are both comfortable and smooth-writing... I've tended to favor the G-2 since I've been using some variant of it since high school (nearly 20 years now), and the 0.38 is even nicer. I'll probably end up picking up a few additional Signos though -- they write nearly as smoothly for me and I really like the blue-black color that the G-2 0.38 isn't available in.

I find the G-2 is the smoothest overall for me, but this may also be because of the relatively cheap writing pads I use at the office.

Another useful tip for navigation - when using the fuzzy search, you can start typing a filename to jump to that file, then with that still in the search box, hit # and start typing a keyword to jump to in that file.

So if you wanted to find something with the class btn_order in index.aspx, in Windows you'd hit CTRL-P and type "index#btn", hit enter, and there you are. You can of course scroll up/down through the available files matching the filter before you hit # -- the keyword search applies to the currently selected file.

Like the author, I'm deaf as well. Real time captioning functionality using an improved version of Google's speech-to-text technology (the current implementation on Youtube is VERY hit or miss) was pretty much my first thought when I saw those glasses.

That's something I've been dreaming about for 20 years or so.

As someone who's currently an experienced .net developer (based in NE Ohio), prefers working for smaller companies, and is getting the urge to look around and see what opportunities are out there, I have a question I'd like everyone's input on: is staying mostly .net-focused a viable idea, or am I taking on a serious career risk?

I've worked with python and ruby a bit and am currently working my way through Programming Clojure, but right now I'm much more experienced with .net and it's where my comfort zone is. I try to keep abreast of what's happening elsewhere, but don't have as much time as I'd always like to try other technologies.

I'm curious what people think - am I better off pushing harder on new stuff and hitting meetups, or is C#/MVC still a viable option despite Microsoft's current struggles? (Not that they're on the verge of disappearing or anything, but they definitely don't have the buzz in their favor right now...)

Very nice, and it's nice to see the local scene getting a bit of attention -- I live up in Beachwood, and work for a company that's based in the accelerator in downtown Akron. I may have to swing by for a meetup sometime.

The NE Ohio tech scene doesn't get enough credit, honestly. You've got companies like LeanDog doing some pretty nice stuff in the local Rails and Agile world -- with an awesome floating office, to boot. There's also definitely a startup scene around here, too -- though here in the Akron accelerator, it seems like the startups are biased a little more toward biomedical stuff. Though, that's a particular area that Akron's been trying to encourage, so it's not too surprising.

I moved over here from NW Ohio a couple of years ago and I don't get why so many people are negative about Cleveland and Akron -- I love it here. There's tons of stuff to do, indoors and out, there's a pretty good food scene if you like variety, and the cost of living is pretty affordable.

Congrats on the launch, very nice looking site.

Just wanted to take a moment and thank you for the attention to detail in that you included closed captioning for the sample videos on the site -- it's something I rarely expect to see and I'm always very pleasantly surprised when it's there. Is that something that'll be carrying over to the rest of the videos on the site?

Didn't vote since there isn't a "maybe" option. It will depend on how well Siri deals with my 'deaf' accent.

One of my coworkers is planning to upgrade to the 4S from the 4, so when he gets it I'll probably get a chance to see how well it deals with that.

The easy reminders and ability to dictate text messages while driving are very appealing, though, and would get me to consider it.