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How to Find & Open Any File In a Jiffy with Launchy + Everything + Dopus

Here’s a quick animated gif showing how I use Launchy to send scoped searches to Everything, leading to opening folders in Directory Opus or files in their associated app.

cool tools   

Interesting Design Pattern: Content Organized by Date

I’ve noticed in several apps and sites lately that the way they organize content based on date metadata ends up being pretty convenient. What these apps have in common is that you… Read more »

best & worst practices, meta-tagging the universe, software   

Using Docker Instead of Vagrant for Web Dev on a Windows PC

Warning: this entry is pretty old, probably obsolete in many ways, and I’m not updating it as I’m now running Docker on my Synology NAS. I started using Vagrant to develop… Read more »

building online products, management & operations, software   

PhpStorm Integration & Productivity Tips for Windows-Hosted PHP Dev [Visual Guide]

Along with my recent move from Vagrant to Docker I decided to revisit a number of tooling choices that I hadn’t second-guessed in a couple of years. The best new… Read more »

cool tools, software   

Favorite New Office 2016 Feature: Tell Me

“Tell Me” is Microsoft’s infamous Clippy finally done right, and somehow I hadn’t paid attention until very recently. It gives unobtrusive help when you need it, focused on task completion… Read more »

best & worst practices, user experience   

Integrating Judo and BJJ for Effective, Holistic Grappling

When I was learning judo as a kid while growing up in France in the early 80s, ground work (aka newaza) was a significant component of the art, especially as… Read more »

fun   

AI Reading of Human Emotions is a Tough Problem

It’s tough enough to properly read nonverbal cues among us humans, now imagine programming software to do it. That’s what Lex Fridman and his MIT colleagues are trying to accomplish…. Read more »

digital lifestyle   

Website Hosting Tech: Shared, Dedicated, Cloud – What to Choose and Why?

If your head is spinning from the deluge of tech product announcements that make you feel like you’re always trying to catch up, no matter how close you stick to technology… Read more »

building online products, web apps & SaaS   

Web Services and APIs Need to Advertise Their Health Status

It seems everything is now being turned into an off-the-cloud service, and as a case in point StatusPage.io launched in 2013 to let companies outsource their availability dashboards. They already have lined up a… Read more »

best & worst practices, web services & APIs   

Smartphones: Time to Go Direct

The likes of Dell and Gateway exploded on the PC scene in the late 80s/early 90s by streamlining their supply chain, thinking of themselves as OEM assemblers rather than manufacturers,… Read more »

business models, digital lifestyle, industry players & news   

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