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//
// BLAppDelegate.m
// Braid
//
// Created by Idan Gazit on 5/14/13.
// Copyright (c) 2013 BraidLabs. All rights reserved.
//
#import "BLAppDelegate.h"
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idan / .env.fish
Created May 26, 2013 21:50
autoenv.fish and example .env.fish file
set -x DJANGO_SECRET_KEY "foo_123123123"
set -x AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID "bar_456456456"
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idan / impostor.md
Created May 26, 2013 20:29
Hybrid Impostor Syndrome

I'm a hybrid designer/developer, but I socialize with more developers than designers—at conferences, online, etc. I have a very specific form of impostor syndrome. I think it might be instructive when examining impostor syndrome, in the same way that optical illusions can be instructive when examining the workings of perception.

I am not a rockstar designer. Or, for that matter, developer. Or anything, really. I am talented, and I feel that I could be a badass at something. Looking around me at tech conferences and our erstwhile online communities, I think this is a feeling that a lot of us share. We're all looking for that outlet, that thing that we would be a game-changer at doing. In our heads, we fantasize about being some kind of Michael Jordan of X, or maybe something with less glamor. A savant-like rain-man at content marketing, or scalable API design, or documentation, or low-latency concurrent network development, or whatever it is that we think we like doing. The point is that this isn't some humb

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Created May 26, 2013 20:22
Hybrid Impostor Syndrome

I'm a hybrid designer/developer, but I socialize with more developers than designers—at conferences, online, etc. I have a very specific form of impostor syndrome. I think it might be instructive when examining impostor syndrome, in the same way that optical illusions can be instructive when examining the workings of perception.

I am not a rockstar designer. Or, for that matter, developer. Or anything, really. I am talented, and I feel that I could be a badass at something. Looking around me at tech conferences and our erstwhile online communities, I think this is a feeling that a lot of us share. We're all looking for that outlet, that thing that we would be a game-changer at doing. In our heads, we fantasize about being some kind of Michael Jordan of X, or maybe something with less glamor. A savant-like rain-man at content marketing, or scalable API design, or documentation, or low-latency concurrent network development, or whatever it is that we think we like doing. The point is that this isn't some humb

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idan / impostor.md
Created May 26, 2013 20:15
Hybrid Impostor Syndrome

I'm a hybrid designer/developer, but I socialize with more developers than designers—at conferences, online, etc. I have a very specific form of impostor syndrome. I think it might be instructive when examining impostor syndrome, in the same way that optical illusions can be instructive when examining the workings of perception.

I am not a rockstar designer. Or, for that matter, developer. Or anything, really. I am talented, and I feel that I could be a badass at something. Looking around me at tech conferences and our erstwhile online communities, I think this is a feeling that a lot of us share. We're all looking for that outlet, that thing that we would be a game-changer at doing. In our heads, we fantasize about being some kind of Michael Jordan of X, or maybe something with less glamor. A savant-like rain-man at content marketing, or scalable API design, or documentation, or low-latency concurrent network development, or whatever it is that we think we like doing.

As a designer at developer conference

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idan / autoenv.fish
Last active February 8, 2016 15:14
My fish config. I was using oh-my-fish but it seems to introduce a bunch of bugginess.
if not set -q AUTOENVFISH_FILE
set -g AUTOENVFISH_FILE ".env.fish"
end
# Automatic env loading
function _autoenvfish --on-variable PWD
if status --is-command-substitution # doesn't work with 'or', inexplicably
return
end
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idan / index.html
Created May 19, 2013 12:34
d3 csv sample
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 9]><html class="no-js oldie"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)(!IE)]><!--> <html class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>

1. Where do you get UX inspiration?

Once in a while there are roundups on the usual sites. uxmag.com, smashingmagazine.com, etc. Sometimes these have nice tidbits or projects I haven’t seen yet.

Honestly, I’m constantly just using sites and applications, and making note of when somebody does something particularly delightful. I’ve gotten better at noticing the nice touches with time.

There’s also a surprising amount of good UX fodder on sites like Hacker News. UX-related stories are the minority, but I’m reading it all the time anyways, and I’ve stumbled into a lot of good stuff there. Whether it’s due to sampling bias, I can’t say!

2. How do you recognize a great UX designer?

from dulwich.repo import Repo
# Get the repo
somerepo = Repo("/path/to/repo")
# Get the revision history
commits = somerepo.revision_history(somerepo.head())
for commit in commits:
# do stuff!
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idan / gist:5344278
Created April 9, 2013 09:16
contributor
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blog: "http://gazit.me",
commits: 58,
company: "Umbrella.io",
created_at: "2008-09-01T06:55:50Z",
email: "idan@gazit.me",
followers: 203,
following: 26,
hireable: false,