• flux-icon-smEver notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

    Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

    During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun.

    f.lux

    f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

    It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

    f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you’re in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.

    Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. f.lux will do the rest, automatically.

  • The popular service could become the web’s de facto home for open data according to The Atlantic

    Note:  Read the article on their website for complete quotes and pictures.  I am putting a small copy of a reduced set her for archival purposes as this speaks to one of my annual resolutions.

    I am playing with the idea of using Jekyll in one of my classes, and even in writing using GitHub and seeing where it takes me.  I am committing to learning and using it more than I do, maintaining my Moodle server and so forth.  I am still only scratching the surface of GitHub and not finding I like how little I know and use it.  It is as if I have condemned this service, which I know to be seminal, to the island of products to pass over.

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  • Are coders worth it?

    In today’s world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect. But is there value in what we do?

    Read this article on the original site!  Why?  The comments, advertising, serendipitous reading materials and a good blog.

    It explains a lot of things that are important to me and people who are as well.

     

     

     

    I only put a copy below for storage, lest I forget, and lest it disappear.

    READ THE ORIGINAL

     

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