- Performance - it takes a friction of a second for the expansion …
use-package's :config vs. :init
Tue 25 October 2016 by
I read this Reddit thread about favorite themes, and got intrigued by the spacemacs theme1.
I added that theme to my init file, and tried making it the default
theme. I use use-package, and configured the theme as follows:
(use-package spacemacs-theme
:ensure t
:config
(load-theme 'spacemacs-light t)
)
When re-evaluating …
read more ›Book Notes - The Myth Of Sisyphus
Sun 23 October 2016 by
Thank god it's over.
Long time ago I pledged not to put down a book I started reading. I tend to read at least couple of books in parallel, and if not being disciplined, I can easily focus on one and drop the other. I might then start yet another …
read more ›Elisp Video Tutorial - Notes
Tue 18 October 2016 by
I've just finished watching Daniel Gopar's elisp video tutorial. So far there are 4 parts to the tutorial, and based on this thread on Reddit, there are more to come.
After watching the guide I don't feel more proficient in elisp, yet less timid running evals and more courageous tinkering …
Another Change To My Writing Workflow
Fri 07 October 2016 by
Till not long ago kept all my drafts in one big posts' drafts. It was a good way to log things I've learned, while preparing to share those learnings in this blog. Keep this huge file public, meant to encourage me to iterate on drafts and eventually turn them into …
read more ›Your App Is Burried In A Folder - Make Its Icon Stand Out
Thu 06 October 2016 by
Meetup has finally updated its mobile app. More than that, it went through a complete re-branding, and as part of it also redesigned the icon of its mobile app.
From the look of the new icon, it seems that Meetup's designers assumed their app sits front and center in their …
read more ›Magit - My Simple Workflow
Wed 05 October 2016 by
I still not fluent with Magit's terminology and workflow. Probably because I'm not using git in general too often. When I do, and when I try to use Magit as the interface, I usually get confused by the wealth of options and switches, and resort to the terminal.
Today I …
read more ›Electric Pair Mode In Emacs
Sun 02 October 2016 by
So far I've used TextExpander for text
snippets and, well, text expansion. One of my main uses-cases is
character pairings. For example, when I type " I almost always enclose
it with another ".
But TextExpander is lacking in several ways:
An Inconsistent User Experience in iOS
Thu 29 September 2016 by
When it comes to user experience, I'm a big fan of consistent design, which gives users confidence that their actions will lead to an expected outcome. When users know what to expect, they are open to experimentations; they are not afraid to explore wider set of features, and try out …
read more ›Google Allo - First Impression
Sun 25 September 2016 by
Yesterday I installed the new Google Allo and gave it a first try. My team at Outbrain is responsible building chatbot CMS for publishers. So I was interested to learn about some of the decision made in Allo, and compare them with what we've learned over the last 6 month …
read more ›Hostile Lead Generation
Thu 15 September 2016 by
In the last few days I've been getting daily emails from TWC, promoting their "Time Warner Cable Business Class" service. I don't know anything about this service, and since I don't run a business, its irrelevant to me.
Until today I simply deleted those emails, but today I got annoyed …
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