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You can press Q while using cmd tab to quit that app entirely without leaving the cmd tab interface, which is a fast way of cleaning up at the end of the day / when project switching.

(apologies if this was _precisely_ what you referring to, but commenting in case you meant you then closed each app individually with cmd q, then returned to the cmd tab interface)

A few other shortcuts for cmd tab: http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/17/secrets-of-the-command-tab-ma...

And on the off chance anyone reading this in Windows is also jonesing for a shortcut for closing lots of apps quickly:

Ctrl alt tab: opens persistent app switcher Ctrl w: closes the current program

Transport for London experimented with this, and found higher overall throughput during rush hour with two standing lanes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/it-is-faster-to-s...

Standing-only escalators had a "throughput" of up to 151 passengers per minute, while an escalator where commuters were still allowed to walk saw around 115.

Your thought experiment's completely right, but in real world circumstances, once an escalator is above a certain height, people rarely use the walking lane:

But a 2002 study of escalator capacity on the Underground found that on machines such as those at Holborn, with a vertical height of 24 metres, only 40% would even contemplate it [walking up]. By encouraging their preference, TfL effectively halves the capacity of the escalator in question, and creates significantly more crowding below, slowing everyone down.

(from https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-... , which has a great graphic showing the two systems)

Not OP, but I can recommend the handy https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout which acts as a git filter which makes version control ignore cell outputs.

With that approach, though notebooks are clean they're still fairly poor for easily evaluating diffs between versions. If code review / diffs are more important than preserving the notebook, then you could use a post save hook to convert notebook input to a .py file and output to .html:

https://towardsdatascience.com/version-control-for-jupyter-n...

I can recommend, with great bias, the department Simon works at as a great place to visit full of interesting individuals passionate about their research area (History and Philosopy of Science at Cambridge University, UK). There's a wonderful wealth of interest areas ranging from sociology of scientists across time to male menstruation.

We're in a world built upon layers and layers of science, technology and all of the societal context that shaped those. It's both humbling and fascinating to explore the personal narratives of the heroes and villains in our technological folklore and discover the more oddball stories like this one about the longitude problem.

The museum: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/ Public lectures at the University of Cambridge, which will run much more frequently come October: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/

Thanks for taking it on board :). Two more:

- The slider for draft/live seems counter-intuitive to me, clicking on draft makes it live and vice versa.

- I was about to suggest the ability to add font awesome icons but I see it's already there! How about advertising this feature on the editor page somewhere? Or adding a menu for placing icons tags like <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> in quickly?

Saying that, the design works so well because it is so simple and fast.

Great work, thanks for sharing this.

Feedback -

- I'm a fool and was looking around for somewhere to click to go through to my site - what about a small link somewhere around http://d.jdkram.net/W7nY? Or maybe a second button the "Welcome" tab.

- Hovering over all of the entry titles in 'Account' (Facebook, Google+ etc.) switches the cursor to a hand. Apologies if this is intentional.

- It would be nice to have a little explanation regarding what you're asking for in the box: something like http://d.jdkram.net/4GEL would help keep the look clean and let you explain where to get the info you're asking for. Alternatively continue with your current norm and use greyed out text within the boxes saying "e.g. 107633175658115732197".