Everyone else is thinking “he could save some money if he got his dog an iPhone and could send iMessages with him” too, right? (thanks Jim)

We run lean at Crowd Favorite too, but not to this extent. Definitely a few ideas I can and will borrow here. (thanks Steve)

I backed Andrew‘s book on Kickstarter – looking forward to reading it.

This looks more complicated than the merge workflow. It is. It is not hard. It is valuable.

We have our pull command set up to pull --rebase, this is a great overview of why you (almost) always want to rebase. (thanks Sandy)

The next morning the strangest thing happened. I was standing on the station platform in Milsons Point waiting for the train, reading a (Kindle) book on my iPad, and for the first time ever I could see the pixels. I mean I obviously had seen them before, but now I was noticing them every time I looked at the screen. My eyes were tripping over the slightly blurry sub-pixel text rendering when they should have been flowing easily from word to word.

Same thing happened to me. I wasn’t unhappy with the iPad 2 screen, but now it looks terrible.

After basically giving them up a few years back, I can’t drink a whole soda anymore either.

The main reason I’m not interested in LTE (yet): mobile data packages are so limiting you can’t do anything interesting with the additional speed.

I think everyone I respect already reads everything published on Rands in Repose by now, but just in case any of you have been living under a rock…

Tucking this away for the next time I hear someone say “MySQL doesn’t scale” (not that NoSQL solutions aren’t also good tools).

Some great tips, as usual, from Steve. I’d also point out that you need a strategy for how to you plan to update the resources you are telling browsers to cache. I typically favor the “update a query string var” approach.

Definitely agree with this approach; it’s pretty much how we designed FavePersonal. (thanks Rona)

A nice summary of FavePersonal from Devin. His child theme is on GitHub (with some of my customizations) for those who are interested.

I’ll go to great lengths to book a long flight with Wi-Fi. For me it’s the difference between unproductive versus being more productive than usual. Best thing to ever happen to air travel.

It’s the exact opposite for me. I’m incredibly productive on planes because I don’t have an internet connection (and the associated interruptions of email, etc.).

Interesting tips from Eric. I’ve never tried to do anything in those kind of conditions.

I didn’t go to SxSW this year and didn’t really miss it; but Ethan’s advice is sound for just about any big conference.

Each kilobyte on your site should add value. Period.

Some great tips here – well explained (hopefully mostly common sense to those of us that do this for a living).

With Spaccerelli’s win, other customers may feel emboldened to take similar courses of action, and with no NDA binding him, Spaccerelli will be able to detail exactly how he won his case.

One can hope.

How about that? (thanks Shawn)

I ran into this about 6 months ago in some code I was working on. I think that calling intval() on any non-empty string should return 1, not 0. Of course, the number of programming languages I’ve written is intval('none').

I’m pretty good about this most of the time. When I slip it’s mainly because my tools made it too hard (lack of multiple clipboards on iOS).

Bottom line. Should you do an accelerator?

Maybe. It’s really your decision. Techstars Boulder’s deadline is 3/16/12. Get on it.

But, if you get in, and decide to do it, then do it 120%. Work harder than everyone else. Push yourself and your team. Become great. Don’t be one of the forgotten companies.

Great post from Micah. As a mentor since 2007 I’ve been amazed at the value that TechStars provides – I highly recommend looking into it closely if you’re at all curious or interested.

To beat Facebook in the general social networking stakes, either Facebook has to get complacent, or your idea has to transform the social space entirely.

Some good notes from Charles here.

However what’s glossed over in the larger discussion of James Whittaker’s post is a commentary on how Google has been willing to harm their core app – what users really value – in the pursuit of Facebook; purity of search has been all but forgotten.

Useful tool for showing how a site would display on multiple devices.

Instagram and the much better camera were the big reasons I made the switch from Android to an iPhone 4.

Spoiler alert: floss first. My dentist was advocating flossing first to another patient but it seemed counter-intuitive to me. The reasons here make sense.