http://blog.abi.sh Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FeedForward is a project that I worked on briefly more than a year ago. Demo here. Code here. It's a really simple forum that was to be used for discussing public problems and offering solutions in Singapore. Singapore has quite a few government-run projects to provide feedback but this was ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/free-project-simple-forum/ A lot of stress in my life comes from events in the very near future. If I have to go to class in 15 minutes, checking how much time I have before I start to leave every 30 seconds is extremely stressful. The stress resulting for making a mistake in ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/idea-quick-timer-app/ (or A Technologist's Manifesto) It's easy to get disappointed with technology and to question what's important and what's not. Are people really happier than they were a hundred years ago or when they lived in villages? What's with the stress and the constant striving for seemingly nothing in our modern ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/the-breathtaking-magnitude-of-our-technology/ Project Euler I started working on Project Euler problems last night when I was bored. It's fun. I'm going to be putting up solutions as I work through the problems [on GitHub][1]. The solutions will probably not be very elegant or the fastest possible ones because I like to do these ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/project-euler/ A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the annoying bug with the Facebook Connect JS library where it wouldn't set cookies locally (details in this Quora question) and how it could be solved with localtunnel. No matter how much easier localtunnel makes the debugging, it doesn't the solve the ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/debugging-facebook-connect-locally/ I came across this paragraph in a post on Less Wrong: I've mentioned before that I like to think in very abstract terms. What this means in practice is that, if there's some simple, general, elegant point to be made, tell it to me right away. Don't start with some messy ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/abstractly-forests/ Q: Why are you working on a Saturday night? A: Why would I not be working on a Saturday night? http://blog.abi.sh/2010/that-kind-of-night/ Localtunnel is a useful little utility written by a friend. Sometimes, I want to show people stuff that I've been working on locally but I don't want to push to my live server and I don't want to create a new remote server just to make this publicly accesible (and ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/localtunnel/ Minimum Viable Product I've had an epiphany on when to release things inspired by this answer on Quora: > As a rule of thumb, I launch a product as soon as I think there's one person in the world that would benefit from using it. If your product can make one person's ... http://blog.abi.sh/2010/minimum-viable-product/ Is there room for separate friends-only social networks outside Facebook? After thinking a lot about this, I'm still skeptical. http://blog.abi.sh/2010/question-of-the-decade/