February 2012
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Feb 13th
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SJNotificationViewController Tumblr, I made a thing yesterday that might be of interest to you. It’s called SJNotificationViewController, and it lets you put dead-simple alerts/notifications in your iPhone app. It’s for letting users know that something is happening / has happened (an image is uploading, or there was an error refreshing a timeline, for example) without throwing up a...
Feb 13th
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Peeking I’d like to talk about a little iOS UI design pattern that I like a lot. I’m not sure if it’s common enough to have a name yet, so I’m going to call it “peeking” for now. 1. An Example The video above is of a list view. You can see that when you pull down (scrolling the list up past the first item), there’s a little bit of information. When...
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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Keeping Track of Movies You've Seen?
I like keeping a list of the movies I’ve seen. I started doing it in January last year1. At first, I used Daytum, but then Daytum got bought by Facebook and the Daytum iPhone app stopped working. Next, I built a dumb mobile website called Miz on Seen (I know, it’s the worst pun) and imported my movies from Daytum. That worked fine, but it’s not great. This year, I’m...
Jan 7th
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December 2011
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Christmas French Toast Brunch! (I used egg nog instead of milk. That’s what makes it Christmas-y. Also that it’s Christmas.)
Dec 24th
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Dec 12th
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“THIS IS A TASTE BUY ART TO APPRECIATE IT yea its the new one yea i kinda feel...”
– The world’s dickiest asshole. (By the by, you’ve bought Louis CK’s new standup special, haven’t you? Of course you have. I know — duh-doy. I was just asking. Jeesh.)
Dec 10th
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November 2011
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Nov 26th
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“There are some exceptions to everything, but that’s called style, not...”
– Dan Harmon, outlining his storytelling structure.
Nov 13th
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“There is a popular belief in Japan that a person’s ABO blood type or...”
– Blood types in Japanese culture - Wikipedia Huh. Japan, I kinda really want to go to you.
Nov 9th
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My thesis is done. Suck it, my thesis.
Nov 9th
Why We Like: A Recommendation Engine For Tumblr... →
Hey again, Tumblr. Here’s the exciting conclusion of my research project. Now that I know why people Like stuff on Tumblr, I’ve been able to build a recommendation system that I think is a little smarter than most. Most recommendation sites just look at what you Like. However, we Like things for all sorts of reasons. Should Liking something because it made you laugh contribute the...
Nov 7th
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October 2011
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Oct 25th
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My Research Project: Why We Like
Hey, Tumblr. I’m really interested in Like buttons. I think they’re a fascinating phenomenon. It’s something that’s not even five years old and yet it’s already become something that millions of people do every day. It’s something that we do without thinking, but can’t always explain. Long story short, I’m interested. So interested, in fact, that I...
Oct 25th
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September 2011
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“The 1990 film Crash and Burn (AKA Robot Jox 2: Crash and Burn) was produced and...”
– Robot Jox on Wikipedia Films marketed as sequels that have nothing to do with the movie they’re being marketed as a sequel to. Is there a list of these somewhere?
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August 2011
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