Second Wednesday as represented in Twitter Charts – updated in realtime
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I came across a great talk today by Leila Johnson on Making Things Fast.
The main points of the talk for me were:
Stop caring about past projects
Stop caring about possible future aims
Stop caring about it being perfect, it never will be
If you love it let it go
Be generous with your ideas
Collect them constantly. Don’t be left with one thing to hold onto.
Make it. Then forget it. “The past is over.”
Spread your motivation over a short amount of time. Find people who inspire you. Keep making.
Ambition means you’re not happy yet
Ambition means you’re looking at everyone else
Let go of your dreams
Forget the “and then”. Don’t even think about whats next.
To yourself
To your employer (on CV’s)
Let others make up their mind, claiming slows you down.
Make “things” not “statements of intent”
All supplementary writing=distance.
Something that exists is always better than something that doesn’t (except unicorns)
Worrying about what may happen
Thinking you’ll never have a good idea again
Thinking it has to be successful
Describing instead of doing (CV’s, About Me)
Play pointlessly
Detach from all goals
Make partial things
Make regularly, make fast. The faster you are the more you can make.
For more details check: (video) (slides)
With investments in two beer related companies I can call myself a beerpreneur. The investments are:
Brewdog via the third Equity For Punks scheme. I’d always missed the deadline previously so was pleased to get in early this time.
Beerbods raised funding via CrowdCube reaching a £150,00 investment in record time.
Both are small investments as a way to keep informed of the inside story of these companies at an interesting time for the British beer industry.
Created to solve the common task of sharing on Twitter. I wanted to be able to:
Download Share via Twitter workflow. For Mac, using Safari and Twitter app.
Flappy Bird taken down after it's accused of being a clone; leads to hundreds of other developers making clones to ride on its popularity.
— Steve McIntyre (@stevedecoded) February 13, 2014
but even worse
The story of Flappy Bird, it surprisingly makes 50k/day. Creator kills it. Clones and remixes look likely to spawn a new genre. #gamedev
— Shane Celis (@shanecelis) February 13, 2014
They really are taking over the App Store
Attack of the clones! Lol #flappybird #appstore pic.twitter.com/R3d8ajb1ZH
— Tardent Apps (@TardentApps) February 14, 2014
so much so that
Flappy Bird clones are the new fart apps
Some great links here:
6 Great Flappy Bird Clones – http://t.co/LISCT8ChBu
— Glen McNamee (@GlenMcNamee) February 13, 2014
including Maverick Bird
So Terry Cavanagh made a Flappy Bird game, which is already miles better. http://t.co/DRgs1o3LS3
— Malqua (@Malqua) February 14, 2014
Versions of the game in various states are cropping up on Github
We’re up to 3 flappy bird clones on github trending: https://t.co/XlKllnfq0b
— Peter Goldsmith (@peterngoldsmith) February 13, 2014
And a ton on requests on Elance
The #FlappyBird clones economy https://t.co/rDZPkF5MdE … via @iTrendTV @cdixon
— Mr. Schmooze (@SchmoozeBros) February 13, 2014
And within the clones lie dangers
Flappy Bird fans, beware: Clones of the original game app might actually infect Android phones http://t.co/Kag8UKWSud pic.twitter.com/CX5XNwcMeD
— Samuel Hilario C. (@SamuelHilario96) February 13, 2014
With everyone jumping on the clone wagon, some are bound to come off better than others.
Flappy Bird clones, it's over. Sesame Street has released "Flappy Bert" http://t.co/hB9nMWXiQg
— E.J. Coughlin (@ejc) February 13, 2014
Although I’m not sure it was necessary to set up a Flappy GameJam to encourage more…
In the space of a couple of hours using Windows Azure:
Created a mobile service
Ran the iOS app in the iOS simulator
Ran the web app locally
Ran the web app deployed on Azure
Added Facebook authentication to both iOS app and web app
Deployed a nodejs site
Installed nodejs command line tools for nodejs
That’s a whole lot of stack.
As developers, it is our responsibility to understand the goals and needs of our applications, and to resist the urge to over-engineer and prematurely optimize our solutions.
http://nshipster.com/nscoding/
I’ve just seen that Stencyl 2.0 (2012) looks very much like Scratch 1.8 (2008)
It seems that Stencyl was based on Scratch. If it allows kids to build games, surely I can figure it out?
Really interesting presentation on the state of mobile commerce.
[slideshare id=23878672&doc=50must-know2-130703165724-phpapp01]
Enjoying revisiting the Hipster International playlist on a hot summers day.
