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He's wrong when he says that Medium uses a 22pt font. They have a 22 PIXEL font. 22px is much smaller than 22pt. (37signals' blog and Zen Habits also have a 20-something pixel font size, not 20-something points).

Otherwise, this was a pretty decent overview. A lot of programming-focused sites ignore good practices about line lengths and font size.

No, the ZTE is not at all similar to the Geeksphone Peak. It's even slower than the Keon -- it has half as much RAM as the Keon, and only 512 MB of internal storage (I think the Keon has 4 GB).

Click "bug reporting" on the side menu. Takes you to https://www.keepassx.org/dev/.

Github page is at https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx.

I use both KeePass and KeePassX (and KeePassDroid on my phone) -- I should make some donations tonight.

I'll be really, really, REALLY happy when KeePassX works with browser plugins like regular KeePass does, so you don't have to always copy and paste things.

I'm pretty sure KeepassX supports the new database format -- I think their FAQ is wrong. Its relationship with KeePass is just that it's another program that can open that file format; they aren't really "related." I use it on my Mac because it works better than using regular KeePass through Mono.

Coincidentally, I just tried this on Bitbucket a couple of days ago. For your activity feed, it must check the username you used to authenticate when you pushed, not what email address is on the commit. The activity feed on my profile says the commit is mine -- however, when viewing the commit, it says it's by the other person whose email address I used. Not sure if GitHub does the same thing.

Crecord is great. Someone has made a fork that works on Windows[1]. The regular one is only for Mac and Linux. (Haven't tried the Windows one myself, but I do like using crecord on my Mac at work.)

[1] https://bitbucket.org/jmb/crecord

Yeah, it sounds like something created with that Medium article title generator, http://benjaminhawkyard.co.uk/medium/.

Damage to what? The "USB name?" I don't think it's going anywhere, even if we do have to wait until 2016 for a better design. Two years isn't long, considering we've been dealing with this since 1997 or so. Unless you mean physical damage to your USB ports...then, yeah.

The Peak+ was 150 euros (like $200). Since people who ordered the Peak+ can exchange that for a Revolution, I wonder if that means the Revolution will be the same price. I bet not, since it'd be really hard to sell a 4.8-inch phone for that price.

I'm sure the average consumer wouldn't take that seriously -- however, this is not meant for the average consumer. This letter is definitely trying to appeal to business IT managers, and they sure love Gartner's magic quadrants. (They also enjoy whitepapers about best practices for implementing thin enterprise BYOD methodologies.)

Yes, considering that CC companies have that information by the nature of the service they provide to you, their customer. On the other hand, Google seems to be expanding into more services to hungrily learn more about you and then provide than information to their real customers, the advertisers.

Edit: I should mention that I know that credit card companies sell data to third parties. But they don't exist only for that purpose, like Google nowadays. Thus, people are understandably less comfortable with Google knowing things.

He was talking about Go, not Dart. (Sorry if you were joking and my sarcas-o-meter is off.)

The author is from a company called Bottlenose, which (Wikipedia says) is a "company that analyzes social media and business data to detect trends for brands."

So it's pretty clear that he has an angle here.

I can imagine some clients would find it disingenuous to have a company name when it's just you, yeah.

This post was interesting because my current boss had the exact opposite experience. He said when he dropped the "company/we" terminology he had been using and was upfront about how it's just him, his relationship with clients improved greatly. It probably all depends on the types of clients you have.

I think got SCSS and SASS backwards. Probably meant to say he likes SCSS, not SASS.

I think doing it with SASS makes it cleaner when there are some differences between p and footer. So, instead of this CSS:

  p, footer {
      margin-bottom: 20px;
      font-size: 14px;
      line-height: 1.5;
  }

  p {
      text-align: justify;
  }

  footer {
      border: 1px solid black;
  }

You could do this SASS:

  @mixin default-type {
      margin-bottom: 20px;
      font-size: 14px;
      line-height: 1.5;
  }

  p {
      @include default-type;
      text-align: justify;
  }

  footer {
      @include default-type;
      border: 1px solid black;
  }

I like that last one better. It's like everything that describes what the footer looks like can be contained in the single footer block, rather than having many parts of your stylesheet apply to the footer and saying "this applies to both p and footer."

I'm glad that the shelve extension (which is like stash in git) is included by default now. Even though that extension has been around for a while, it feels like it's considered a core function now, rather than an "extra." (Especially for git users, who are accustomed to having `git stash` out of the box. So now there's a little less friction when trying to do the same things in Mercurial.)

Everyone who's looking to run their own private Dropbox should check out ownCloud[1]. It's free, open source, you install it on your own server (or Raspberry Pi), and it's not P2P like BTsync is. It works more like Dropbox, with a centralized server. You just run that server yourself.

They have apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. I've been using it for about two months now with no problems.

[1] http://owncloud.org

No no, the hidden input fields would not be filled in by a human (because they're positioned off screen by CSS, for example), whereas a bot would fill them in because the bot is just scraping the HTML for all input fields and filling them in with something.

It seems like you had that backwards -- hope that clears it up.

There's the Geeksphone Peak+ (http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/phones/8-peak.html), which is a Firefox OS phone with decent specs. Unfortunately, I can't find any real info or reviews on it.

Right, but you could have it continuously recording for as long as its memory will allow, and delete from the beginning when it gets too full. Then, have it save when it detects a collision.

With bike commuting becoming more and more popular, I'm guessing this will be a thing soon. And it should be, as this terrible story shows.

It's easy to think that Bootstrap has revolutionized HTML, since the startup community often lives in an echo chamber. The sites we visit and the sites we make use Bootstrap, but let's take a moment to check in with reality here. Has there been a sweeping movement to use standardized markup for content? No. Is there really even a reason to? No. Like mddw said, is this (realistically) even possible? No. And finally, does this article have ANY substance or evidence behind it? No.