pinkahd

Contract Killer

The popular open-source contract for web designers and developers by Stuff & Nonsense

• Originally published: 23/12/2008
• Revised date: 15/12/2013
• Original post

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pinkahd

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

pinkahd

# Download latest archlinux bootstrap package, see https://www.archlinux.org/download/
wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/iso/2016.01.01/archlinux-bootstrap-2016.01.01-x86_64.tar.gz

# Make sure you'll have enough entropy for pacman-key later.
apt-get install haveged

# Install the arch bootstrap image in a tmpfs.
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
cd /mnt
tar xvf ~/archlinux-bootstrap-2016.01.01-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1

pinkahd

# If you open your Ressource monitoring under OSX, you'll see that the
# Process "Spotify Helper" is eating between 20% and 30% of CPU constantly
# It means that when you're on battery, it'll drain it faster.

# To prevent the Spotify Helper (which are basically ads for spotify) from spawning process, 
# you should disable access to the app doing this (close Spotify first) :

sudo chmod 000 "/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper EH.app"
sudo chmod -N "/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper EH.app"

pinkahd

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To claim this, I am signing this object: