I have recorded a short screencast, demonstrating how easy it is to set up an Erlang application with a HTTP API using Test Driven Development. If you can’t see the embedded video go to vimeo directly: https://vimeo.com/59832641 Make sure you have a recent version of erlang and rebar installed when trying it yourself. Get Erlang […]
There is no reason nor excuse why websites should still get away with bad typography and therefore bad readability. Applying some basic rules and using proper fonts can yield a big improvement without much work. For me typography is about aesthetics and readability at the same time. It is a form of art as letters […]
The Plan As you might know I’m really into guitars and guitar equipment right now. In my recent holidays I wanted to tinker a little bit and so I decided to build my own 1×12 guitar speaker cabinet. One day I started to scribble a cabinet on a piece of paper that was flying around […]
On OS X there are these moments when Finder tells you that the trash cannot be emptied or that a disk can not be unmounted because some files in/on them are still being used. When emptying the trash, Finder even tells you about the files in question but not about the app that is accessing […]
I just got a new MacBook Pro from my current employer and since I got it without an SSD I bought the Intel 510 250GB and installed it. Everything worked smoothly after the first boot. However, as @denis2342 pointed out, there are a few extra steps to make it run at full speed and performance. […]