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by robertnealan 7y ago
Build more housing where driving a car isn't the default mode of getting around and people will naturally start to demand better public transportation services and local spots they can get to via bike or walking. This housing won'
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by robertnealan 7y ago
Zoning restrictions are far more restrictive in the United States than in a city like Tokyo, where the government has largely only enacted laws preventing specific cases that would be considered very harmful (opening a heavy industrial busi
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by robertnealan 7y ago
Several years ago I asked my mom why she lived so far from where she worked (Vallejo, CA to San Ramon, CA), and she claimed they were saving money on cheaper rent. Five minutes of napkin paper math later I pointed her and her partner were s
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by robertnealan 7y ago
Before buying my car I test drove a Mercedes that had what I assumed was a touchscreen. Upon trying to tap it the person working at the dealership said none of their cars have touchscreens because they don't make sense to operate when
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by robertnealan 8y ago
I'm only 6'0" but feel your pain. I highly recommend checking your flight on https://www.seatguru.com/ to get a better idea of the seat pitch and whether there's any seats that might be slightly roomier
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by robertnealan 8y ago
Seems environmentally unfriendly to rely 100% on electricity in one of the sunnier places in the country — you'd think there'd be a way to pipe in daylight via fiber optic cords during the day, and transition to LEDs as the sun be
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by robertnealan 10y ago
Aha! I remembered seeing something a year or so back but thought it was just a proof of concept by an individual, not officially baked into Google Maps. Just took a look and it's definitely there, though unless you know where to look i
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by robertnealan 10y ago
http://www.oldsf.org/ is the closest thing I've seen — designer and developer mapped photos to their relatively accurate location, filterable by year. I've actually been able to find photos of two of the houses&#x
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by robertnealan 10y ago
That's actually from the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco — tower on the right is 1 Rincon (there's already a few more next to it going up now). Curious if this was a case of "just throw up something that looks halfway d
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by robertnealan 10y ago
As someone currently using (aka fighting) the web audio API, there's definitely a market for better, clearer information out there, but I'm curious how successful targeting a such a niche market has been?
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by robertnealan 10y ago
Wrote on this topic a bit at the beginning of the year.[1] I think for most people it really just comes down to a mix of Medium's beautiful design, a strong existing community there, and laziness. You'd be surprised how many times
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by robertnealan 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Currently based in San Francisco) UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive websites and web applications. I most often work with clients from concept th
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by robertnealan 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive websites and web applications. I most often work with clients from concept through shipping the
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by robertnealan 11y ago
Hosting at Github with Jekyll is essentially self-hosting. Github Pages has automated deployment, but at the end of the day it's just another hosting option with no (current) ulterior business motives other than to increase exposure of
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by robertnealan 11y ago
This. Current static site generators aren't good for non-engineers, but I'd be willing to bet that doesn't need to be the case. Every instance I've seen requires some sort of technical know-how, or integration with Dropb
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by robertnealan 11y ago
I was referring less to general blogging companies like Typepad/Blogger - IMO those are pretty similar to Medium in functionality but minus the community aspect (blogs only linked to one-another by intentional choice, versus Medium whe
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Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?(robertnealan.com)
193 points by robertnealan 11y ago|196 comments
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by robertnealan 11y ago
1017kb on my end. IMO a large majority of those images would be better off replaced by the Taft image (or not included at all).
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by robertnealan 11y ago
I coincidentally sat in on a pitch to Zimmer's new company zTailors about a year ago over at their office in Oakland. Having visited numerous startups in the Bay Area over the years, zTailors was one of the few that walking into their
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by robertnealan 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying expe
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by robertnealan 11y ago
Has nobody created an open-source, non-tamperable e-voting platform yet (could give the blockchain a solid purpose)? It seems like something that would make for a great project - a voting system for the people by the people.
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by robertnealan 11y ago
Anybody have any idea what animation library they're using? Doesn't look to be CSS transitions and all their JS is compressed (rightfully so).
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by robertnealan 11y ago
I haven't personally been to one of their events but met the founder (Ankit) by chance a few months back through a mutual friend who has been to a few. Definitely seems like a genuine guy who's passionate about the idea and being
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by robertnealan 12y ago
Hamburg's mentioned plan reminds me of Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan for San Francsico, which would have created Panhandle-like parks running all over the city as well as diagonal avenues connecting major points of interest a-la Pari
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by robertnealan 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying expe
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Inside Microsoft’s New Rendering Engine for the “Project Spartan”(smashingmagazine.com)
33 points by robertnealan 12y ago|0 comments
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by robertnealan 12y ago
It's an interesting concept, but I think this would open the door for the argument, "We added POI recognition so why not add feature Y?" Messages is supposed to be about communicating via short, concise text-style messages —
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by robertnealan 12y ago
To anyone who has had extensive issues with MBP's, I managed to get my 2007 replaced for free back in college with a new version by Apple after several unreasonable repairs (2x logic board, 3x LCD, 1x left IO board, 1x top case, 1x tou
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by robertnealan 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying expe
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by robertnealan 12y ago
While I think Jon made it seem a little easier than in reality, as someone who uses and designs for both mobile/desktop I have to agree that when done right it's not that much more of a time investment - generally ~10% extra on a

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