Thomas Stenumgård

got myself a new avatar, thanks M!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:34:49 +0100

got myself a new avatar, thanks M!

"So do I think a fourteen year old could have pulled it off? I sure think so, but I realize in 2009..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:40:35 +0100

“So do I think a fourteen year old could have pulled it off? I sure think so, but I realize in 2009 it would have taken a very tenacious fourteen year old. But that was 2009. If you’re skeptic about my prediction for the past, how about applying them to today or 2015? How long till the technology that, at the time, precipitated the fastest wealth generation humanity had ever seen, can be replicated by a teenager with next to no budget during summer break? How long till it’s something you write as a pet project while learning to program. Our tools are still getting more powerful, and our collective understanding of software problems is still increasing at a rapid pace. Do you think there’s an upper ceiling for how good we can get at writing software? Are we close?”

- A 14-year-old could build 1998’s Google using her Dad’s credit card!

Super interesting talk on the SoundCloud API

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:48:39 +0100

Super interesting talk on the SoundCloud API

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Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:33:10 +0100

"Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:17:38 +0100

“Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority. But history teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Robert Darnton, an historian at Harvard University, who has studied information-sharing networks in pre-revolutionary France, argues that “the marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the internet.” Social media are not unprecedented: rather, they are the continuation of a long tradition. Modern digital networks may be able to do it more quickly, but even 500 years ago the sharing of media could play a supporting role in precipitating a revolution. Today’s social-media systems do not just connect us to each other: they also link us to the past.”

- Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist

"The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how pretty your..."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:47:04 +0100

“The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can’t link in and out of your world, it’s not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don’t need oceans because you have a bathtub. How nice your bathtub is. Try building a continent around it if you want to get my point.”

- Scripting News: Why apps are not the future

You will never know by Ingvild Østgård Oh, really like this...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:27:00 +0100

You will never know by Ingvild Østgård

Oh, really like this song. She’s from the same place as the slightly more well-known Madrugada.

shared from exfm

(via yvynyl)

"As super cuts become more common — and become part of the cultural vocabulary — I think..."

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:11:35 +0100

“As super cuts become more common — and become part of the cultural vocabulary — I think they will help keep cliches from getting old, and will help creators and the audience perceive recurring patterns in rapid turnaround. They will act as keen proofreaders and critics. At the same time a few super cutters will employ existing footage to create entirely new feature-length works. A few classic experimental films have already been cut from found footage, but we can expect more of these, and better ones.”

- The Technium: Supercut Genre

Model Thinking This course looks really cool.

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:54:03 +0100

Model Thinking

This course looks really cool.

"Of course, I’ve written some free software that runs on many thousands of computers and..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:22:48 +0100

“Of course, I’ve written some free software that runs on many thousands of computers and servers. How many tons of coal are burnt to support laziness or a lack of optimization in my software? What is the coal cost of choosing to write a program in a less efficient, but easier to write, higher-level programming languages like Python or Ruby instead of writing a more efficient version in C?”

- Cost of Computing in Coal :: Copyrighteous

The Alfred App

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:18:24 +0100

I’ve been using the Alfred App for about a month now and it’s really one of the best desktop apps I’ve tried in a while. I have no idea if it’s widely used, but it has at least improved my productivity quite a bit.

What it does is that it let’s you search anything on your computer and the web, launch apps and do various in-app stuff (if you have the pro version) from a simple search bar. It also works really well with a ton of services, including various Google services such as Maps, Docs and Translate. If you want to do a translation just hit alt + space to bring up the search bar and then type translate and the term you want to translate. It also supports custom search queries. For example I just type “hypem” from wherever I happen to be, and The Hype Machine opens in a new tab. Searching files and folders is also super simple. Just start the query with a space.

The best thing probably, in addition to all the time saved, is that it really cuts down on the number of times one needs to use the mouse and saves some neck and shoulder pain. After a month with the Alfred App it’s going to be really tough to use a desktop again without.

via The Waving Cat

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:27:35 +0100

via The Waving Cat

Really neat presentation covering the basics.

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:56:00 +0100

Really neat presentation covering the basics.

"So it seems to me and my colleagues at USV that an alternative currency with roots in peer to peer..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:54:48 +0100

“So it seems to me and my colleagues at USV that an alternative currency with roots in peer to peer networks and based on an algorithm that is transparent to everyone is an idea whose time has come.”

- A VC: Bitcoin

"One of the most pleasant (and surprising) developments of 2011 was me starting to write, Om Says:..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:06:55 +0100

“One of the most pleasant (and surprising) developments of 2011 was me starting to write, Om Says: What To Read This Weekend. I started it mostly because I felt that we are continuously being bombarded with short, near term news and in the process failing to think about the big picture. I thought to myself hat our business has to be about more than just a feature upgrade or funding, or some new app.”

- My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Tech News and Analysis

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Finished an ok evening run from down in the city and up to the...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:19:03 +0100

Finished an ok evening run from down in the city and up to the ski jumping hill (Holmenkollen) and back down again, and a quick lap around Bygdøy. Felt really bad until halfway up to Holmenkollen. After that it got considerably easier. Even if I’m not in my best shape running uphill still generally feels quite ok. I guess it has something to do with when I was a kid and had to finish lots of runs with a 5k climb to get back home again.

Saw this on Hacker News last night. It’s really...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:14:34 +0100

Saw this on Hacker News last night. It’s really cool.

(via Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team)

"The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:55:31 +0100

“The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human nature. The Internet is designed to empower individuals not control them. It assumes that the if individuals are empowered, they will do the right thing the vast majority of the time.”

- unfinished work

Brad Burnham’s posts are always legendary.

"The Web OS is already here… it’s just not what you thought it would be. Web technologies are..."

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:28:00 +0100

“The Web OS is already here… it’s just not what you thought it would be. Web technologies are currently powering content and interactions across multiple devices effectively turning the most popular native applications into Web browsers. The end result is a widely distributed and used Web-based operating system. Just not the one you imagined.”

- LukeW | The Web OS is Already Here…

Simple iPhone App Prototyping

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:25:51 +0100

I just came across Jyri Engeström’s blog this past weekend and found a really neat post on iPhone app prototyping. So many people seem to have an idea for an iPhone app these days, so while it’s not that hard to hack together something basic with HTML/CSS and a bit of JavaScript, Jyri’s approach is really neat if you just want to put together something super fast to show off your idea.

Basically what you need is OmniGraffle, which is really simple to use, an iPhone app wireframe stencil for OmniGraffle and a Dropbox account. You then just open the image files from the Dropbox folder on your phone to demo the views and flow. Of course the approach works equally well with any program you’re familiar with that you can find iPhone app UI elements for.

The full recipe is on Jyri’s blog here.