Rough sketch of our home screen for Cook, an grocery/recipe/cooking app I’m creating.
Made with Paper
Aaron Schaap: Why you don't need a programmer
At this point when I’m talking with the soon to be entrepreneur about this “simple” production requirement in their ever passionate vision of the future, I have just one thing to say: “You don’t need a programmer - you need a technical co-founder”.
I say this for a variety of reasons that I may write about later but the main one is that you shouldn’t outsource your core competency - that being your app. There are so many different things that go into developing a product, that simply leaving that in the hands of someone that has no vested interest or long term-commitment to the health and well being of it is not just risky, it’s unintelligent.
Yes. When my friend and I were brought on to work on our first startup, we demanded that we be founders. If the core of a product is software, there better be people who know the ins and outs of development in positions to make decisions that only they would know how to make.
Source: schaapy
Is that blogging?: Why Coding is Not The New Literacy
The ability to code does not confer the ability to communicate directly, but rather to newly organise pre-existing modes of communication such as language, images and sound. While new hardware and software will ultimately offer potential to interact in new and exciting ways (video telephones, brainwave sensing, etc), the programming of these innovations are not the communication that these innovations offer. Your grandmother does not need to know how to code a thought-transfer device in order to use the thought-transfer device that coders will ultimately help develop.
Sure, coding may not be direct communication between people, but is direct communication between a person and a machine. In today’s society, it’s certainly not necessary for everyone to know, but the need to communicate directly to machines is only becoming more common. It’s not hard to say literacy doesn’t encompass coding now, but in fifty, one-hundred years? We’ll see.
Source: distorte
Pixel Artists were unreal at making their grid disappear back in the SNES era.
“Long before you were born you were always to be a dagger floating straight to their hearts.”
Really digging the new Shins album.
Source: oregon-orgasm
Rule #7 of gameboy Zeldas: use your shovel EVERYWHERE.
Guys piracy takes away a lot of money from the economy and destroys so many jobs.
- Me: It's ok reading is bad for you anyways.
- Wes: I know, right. So much time consumed. Tv's 40 min. So much healthier.
- Me: Right?! I 100% agree. When people argue that video games are bad, it's really because they're too much like books.
- Wes: Hahaha
- Me: Sad but true.
- Wes: Yeah. That's what I don't get: "video games are bad, kids ought go pick up a book." Same thing, asshole. Yeah, one requires a tiny bit more wit and imagination. But you're gonna knock a kid for 3 hours on Mario Kart instead of 4 hours in what, Hardy Boys? Hank the Cowdog? Piss off.
“I want you to wander silent past my outstretched arms. I want you to hide yourself from all I see. And though my heart will fight until its dying breath, you’re not for me.”
Do I really need to describe how awesome Delta Spirit is? Their third album came out yesterday, so do yourself a favor and go buy it/stream it. However you have to hear this album, do that.
Source: SoundCloud / MMMusic
My mom called to tell me that she didn’t want to finish Mockingjay, so she skipped to the end and found out who Katniss loved. After seeing that is was the boy she liked, she went back and read the whole book.
