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Month: July, 2012

Developers: request for complaints

I’m looking for a new personal weekend project that would be useful to others. Maybe there’s a useful book or useful piece of software I could create for fellow developers, tech leads, project managers, etc. Doesn’t have to be anything related to any of my current or past work (Linux, C, GTK+, Scala, etc.), but […]

New blog hosting

I’m trying out WPEngine instead of self-managed EC2 since my self-managed uptime stats were pretty bad. Let me know if anything about the blog is more broken than it was before.

Desktop Task Switching Could Be Improved

In honor of GUADEC 2012, a post about desktop UI. (On Linux, though I think some of these points could apply to Windows and OS X.) When I’m working, I have to stop and think when I flip between two tabs or windows. If I don’t stop and think, I flip to the wrong destination […]