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The Flow Fallacy 13 years ago

I just finished reading the book, and his description of it is a shame.

For anybody interested it is a great book that talks about how to achieve enjoyment and a meaningful life in the current context of western civilizations. It is a great book, full of insights and really good information. Very recommended

Leaving it behind 13 years ago

Hi, this is my article. I am not really sure if it is allowed/correct to self submit the writing, but I wanted to try.

I tackled the human side of leaving a long time job, without talking about the reasons or my future projects. Because that is what comes from my insides and that is something that is often left aside on this kind of articles.

I am not a experienced writer, feedback is greatly welcome.

I'm really curious about the architecture and stack of lighttable. Please Chris if you could answer some questions it would be great.

How does it work internally?

What are the 'under the hood' differences between 0.2 and 0.1 and why?

Could you share some of those things learnt through all this time building this interactive platform?

How are you doing to get a cross platform desktop app with web tech? (I guess you still use cljs for it)

I'm really curious, and I wonder myself why nobody asks this kind of questions

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Very nice entry effect, looks great on the ipad.

As a landing page looks great, and the app and page look desirable.

A couple of suggestions:

The boxes have maybe too much emphasis, the color distracts a bit.

I missed some visual indication of the steps on the carrousel, when cycling I felt a bit lost.

Good job on both the page and app

Can somebody please point out the differences with a customized FuzzyFinder?

As I have it I get fuzzy completion from the root folder, opening splits with <c-j> and <c-k>, opening tabs with the file with <c-l>, deleting buffers from the list with <c-]>, and such.

Is there any difference or improvement one should try? Genuine question, I am really curious. It would be great to see a comparative between FuzzyFinder, Command-T and Ctrl-P...

ps: fuzz config is like this in vimrc:

    " Fuzzy Finder
    nnoremap <leader>fr :FufRenewCache<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>ff :FufFile **/<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>ff :FufFile **/<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>fg ye :FufFile **/<C-r>"<CR>
    vnoremap <leader>fg y :FufFile **/<C-r>"<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>fb :FufBuffer<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>fd :FufDirWithCurrentBufferDir<CR>
    nnoremap <leader>fl :FufLine<CR>
(Ignore the maps, thats how I like it)

Edit: I would like to point out that I have skimmed several times through the docs of Fuzzy Finder and there are several options I dont even use/grasp, so more knowledge and tips on Fuzzy Finder would be appreciated also

To all the `insightful` comments that again talk about browser speed on a story about Mozilla, lets just remember that different teams under the same organization work on different aspects of the same product. So if the effort is good, lets praise its goodness before criticizing other aspects of the product that may be worse compared to competitors.

It is lovely to see a good effort in the developer tools that were quite abandoned and that other products on the same space were evolving at good speed, like the chrome dev tools, which I find a great tool to work with day after day.

Lets see what Mozilla can do with the javascript part, they should be able to create at least the same good experience as the chrome dev tools do. At least I hope so...

Wonderful site and idea, good design, maybe too twitter-bootstrappy. Anyway I love it and I've subscribed inmediately.

I have noticed a subtle bug, if you check the rss, the links of the articles link to this:

  http://cssdeck.com/[item-id]/[title]
When the actual url on cssdeck is:
  http://cssdeck.com/item/[item-id]/[title]
Please correct that so that I can happily consume the RSS feed :)

Some constructive criticism:

1. Making the blue background lighter or changing to a different scheme may be easier on the eyes and less agressive

2. Please use a custom theme for the jquery-ui widgets (like the autocomplete). It's like default and it doesn't match the page

3. I don't think blocking the search button is a good idea, if the autocomplete goes slow or the user is fast it will create the illusion of a broken button.

4. Give the search button a little bit of button style

5. I don't like the sign on facebook popup that gets on the way of the search, maybe putting it on the results page would be less anoying making users click on sign in only when they have tried and liked the application.

6. If you don't like 5), at least put the 'No thanks, show me generic results' on a button, something green or so, like the search button

7. Fix the 'Sorry! No items match this filter.' message, it's only text, you can do better using some cute images and inviting the user to re-search or change tabs.

That is about it, looks nice.

Depends on the users, for example my non-techie partner always clicks on the cache link just because it highlights the words that she searched for on the page.

For some people it may be an important move

I'm missing here sort options, by most popular, best rated, etc. Also the details for the framework are very short, a really small explanation, and somethimes nothing but the link to their web page.

Maybe adding screenshots and opinions would increase usefulness.

Anyway, added to favs, I really like the idea!

I'm using Backbone at work to refactor a big project and the one thing I can tell is that I'm writting a lot of code.

It's coming to be very organized, but it makes the LOC bigger.

Also for starters I suggest that you have a look at some dependency management library like requireJS, if your code base its going to be big, you better get started with dependency management.

Good luck!

I don't see anything wrong with the spacing, I like it better, but I agree on the thought of giving a different look to the left sidebar... it would be nice to have a color hierarchy.

Also, they removed the colors from the folders in the sidebar and in the document list its now the font color and not the background color, what makes it difficult to see which ones are in which folders.

An easier contacts organizer.

Not for tech savvy but for regular people. A relative of mine has recently switched to an android phone and finds a real hassle to complete all contacts and categorize them (as in circles).

A well done contact manager could be of great value.

Also, twitter and posterous publishing to g+ would be great

Impressive how the most voted comments are rants about the browser.

If that's insightful or useful comments hit me...

I really don't understand this hate towards Mozilla that has been going around lately.

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a sincere opinion of a person who doesn't see a relation in critizising a project of an organisation in an article that talks about other projects.

If you dont like Firefox its fine, but it's a wonderful project with millions of users and that cannot be denied.

Sending my opinion to oblivion because of pointing how unrelated the firefox rant comments are to the article makes no sense.

I just hope that the google teams dont take only the buzz noise posts over the net and do anything silly.

I love the new design, its less agressive with the colors and everything is much more clean.

Im just hoping that the Reader redesign will come soon...

As I heard this morning they will not revoke the ban but treat people with dignity and dont send the police to hit them.

If we keep the protests without flags and political bias it shouldn't be a problem with sunday's elections.

I just hope the protests continue until the next year general elections, we need a change... a big one.

I think they did the right thing, but I dont really like what John says about not changing the API for the major release 2.0.

With their knowledge, user base and fame they have the oportunity to redefine jQuery v2 completely with the things learned from v1 and everybody would learn it and use it.

Dont let fear to change crush the will to improve and move on. On a major release, one has todo what it has to do.