May 2010
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The Man Who Beat Bejeweled 2 →
It took 2,205 hours, but Mike Leyde became the first person to beat Bejeweled 2. Apparently the max score you can get in the game is 2,147,483,647 (231-1), or the max value of a 32-bit signed integer for us programmer-types. I found this bit particularly interesting:
“While developing Bejeweled 2, we debated endlessly whether it was even possible to best the 2.147 billion ‘maximum’ score,” John...
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Microsoft confirms, kills Courier concept in one... →
And the HP Slate is dead too? Damnit Microsoft - why must you pull a Joss Whedon and kill off that which we love?
/via daringfireball
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April 2010
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The upgraded truck icon that comes with an FTP...
Panic has the reputation of being a talented group of design-attuned individuals who crank out exceptional products. This is but one example of how their meticulousness begets delight at all levels of the user experience. Kudos!
Panic has released a fantastic upgrade to one of the coolest (and most copied) icons ever. As a bonus, the icon comes bundled with an FTP client that is supposed to be...
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“Strong opinions aren’t free. You’ll turn some people off. They’ll accuse you of...”
– Rework by Justin Fried, 37signals
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Tumblr's Title Issues with {PostSummary}
I really want to be able to set a post title for every individual post. We can customize URL slugs on a per-post basis, but not titles? What gives?
The way it works today is, if you create a post with a type that doesn’t natively include a {PostTitle}, the title of your post gets populated with the contents of {PostSummary}. Now, this wasn’t clear to me until I actually started...
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