How to adjust your iPhone camera's settings

Macworld

Unlike a compact camera or a DSLR, your iPhone doesn’t let you adjust the most popular settings: aperture, lens length, shutter speed, and white balance. That said, several tools within the Camera app (and other third-party programs) can aid you in taking…

22 May 2014

WWDC Parties 2014

inessential.com

There’s a list. Main thing to remember: drink water. Drink water. Drink water. You may or may not drink other things too. Either way’s cool. Just don’t skimp on the water. Second thing: everybody’s shy. Just talk to people and don’t worry about it. You’ll…

22 May 2014

Erlang and code style

Hacker News

Correct Erlang usage mandates you do not write any kind of defensive code. This is called intentional programming. You write code for the intentional control flow path which you expect the code to take. And you don’t write any code for the paths which you…

21 May 2014

Remote Working: One Does Not Simply Spend a Year Without Pants

Hacker News

My name is Luca Sartoni, I’m a Growth Engineer and I work at Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, Polldaddy, Jetpack and many others. Our company is fully distributed and my 237 colleagues work from home, cafes, lounges,…

21 May 2014

Proxy.app Lands In App Store

Hacker News

After several months testing and improving features, Proxy.app is now officially available for purchase from Mac App Store. It has been an interesting journey and we can proudly say that we have put all of our hearts into making this tool. Proxy.app was…

21 May 2014

Algorithmic tagging of Hacker News or any other site

Hacker News

Part of making algorithms more discoverable is creating meta-data tags to classify them. Often sites will allow users to pick their own tags but what if the content had already been generated? This is the problem we faced when trying to tag all the…

21 May 2014

Mac 101: How to manage website Push Notifications in OS X Mavericks

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OS X Mavericks added a new feature to Safari that allows websites to send you push notifications when there is breaking news and other new content. Websites that support this function will display a pop-up asking you if you want to receive alerts...

21 May 2014

Computer hardware

Planet GNOME

I built a new computer last week to replace my old one. My computer is running 24h a days, so I focused on low power hardware with good peak performance. Next to a low-power computer I have a computer built for performance (gaming and heavy development).…

21 May 2014