Jared plainspace

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS. See http://userium.com/ instead.

Usability Checklist

User Experience

Personalized features. Currency, language, country specific deals, taxes, or delivery options are changed based on user's location.
Registering provides value to users. For example a "Free Trial" button communicates a clear benefit, but a "Register" button doesn't. Unnecessary registration is avoided.

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

How to write your Markdown in Sublime Text 2 and preview in Mou

I use Sublime for everything text related, but it doesn't have any built-in way to preview my Markdown files.

This is how easy it is to preview in Mou:

In Sublime, go to Tools -> Build System -> New Build System...
In the newly opened file, replace the file contents with this and save: { "osx": {

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
	<html>

	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Single-Column Responsive Email Template</title>

	<style>
	@media only screen and (min-device-width: 541px) {
	.content {

	// ==================================================================
	// Flexbox
	//
	// Implementation based on Chris Coyier's article:
	// Using Flexbox: Mixing Old and New for the Best Browser Support \|\| http://css-tricks.com/using-flexbox/
	// ==================================================================

	// Flexbox Context (applied to container element of flex items)
	@mixin flex-display {
	@include experimental-value(display, box, -moz, -webkit, not -o, -ms, not -khtml, official); // Old

	var margin = 15;

	S.cfga({
	"defaultToCurrentScreen" : true,
	"secondsBetweenRepeat" : 0.1,
	"checkDefaultsOnLoad" : true,
	"focusCheckWidthMax" : 3000
	});

	// Create Operations

	/**
	*
	* Here's a thing that will look through all the text nodes of a document, and
	* upon encountering an emoji codepoint, will replace it with an image.
	* For now, those images are pulled from GitHub, which isn't very nice, so I
	* need to find a more suitable host.
	*
	* Much of this code was gleaned from staring at the minified GitHub JS.
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2013 Mark Wunsch. Licensed under the MIT License.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'tempfile'
	require 'fileutils'

	# Signals
	trap("SIGINT") { exit }

	# Setup
	TARGET_FOLDER = ARGV[0]
	TARGET_URL = ARGV[1]