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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched early this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying what could be the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station.

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Posted 1 week ago

Made with Paper

When my wife and I arrived in Vernazza on our honeymoon it was before sunrise. I watched the sun come up while she slept on my shoulder.

Posted 3 weeks ago

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I have been looking at Apple’s store for an order I will be placing very soon and I keep seeing these Ask Now buttons. They look nice and CSS-ified, except they’re is this little thing up in the top right corner that has been bugging me.

I looked at Web Inspector in Safari and noticed that the fallback text (presumably for IE) is still visible even though font-size:0; line-height:0; and text-indent:-2000em is set. I noticed it was positioned absolute so I just shrugged it off to the right -10px because overflow:hidden is set on the containers.

The whole button seems a bit wonky and overkill if it’s trying to look good in all browsers, but I’m also not getting paid to make those decisions. Now, if anyone knows any front-end guys at Apple…

Posted 1 month ago

In awe (Taken with Instagram at Marine Street Beach)

Link reblogged from The Naive Optimist

The Naive Optimist: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m

http://ryanleecarson.tumblr.com/post/21708810513/4-day-week

ryanleecarson:

I think there’s something messed up about the startup culture in the USA. The belief is that you have to work 6-7 days a week and spend all your mental cycles on your company. Nothing but pledging your soul to your startup yields success, right?

Not in my experience.

We work a 4-day week at …

I really appreciate Ryan’s thinking on this and agree with him. I’ve often thought that the culture I’ve seen around me of Go! Go! Go! just to Go! Go! Go! is not healthy. There is a difference between working on a computer where you are focused on this one device, either sitting or standing, but you can’t really write code or create designs while jogging on a regular basis.

When I was working from home I really enjoyed being able to do simple things like swap the laundry out in-between coding or designing, having my kitchen available to whip up lunch, going out for a quick exercise and not having to worry about how I was going to handle showering or whatever. Maybe those are somewhat superficial but I realize the importance of breaking up your day so it’s not just the “daily grind”, because it seems in my opinion that’s exactly what it is. A grind that yields dust.

It’s primarily mental activity for hours. I’ve noticed that it’s tremendously important for me to get away from the computer, get away from technology, put down the cell phone and just talk to people. Ask my wife what she is thinking, ask my friends what they’re laughing about. The same goes for me at work. I’ve found myself laughing with my co-workers more and not just clocking in, clocking out.

I think about start-up culture only because I’ve been part of it, a little bit, and have looked from the outside, in. You see that there is a lot of the same thing you see in manual labor happening. People get burnt out. I’ve had to watch this in my own life, coming dangerously close to being ground to dust.

I agree with Ryan, I want to have time and energy for my family. No kids yet, but I do have a wife, friends, the family I grew up with, responsibilities. I have plenty to encourage me to be wise about my time and energy so that I can enjoy my life with all of them and be reliable.

(Source: ryanleecarson)