Monthly Archives: April 2010

looking through old code with git log -p

Posted on 2010-04-28 by Ben Atkin

I just found myself wishing that I hadn’t deleted some dead code, because I wanted to use the same technique I’d used earlier. Now, if someone else had been in my position, and refused to delete it, because they wanted … Continue reading →

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your clients might be a lot like your blog/twitter audience

Posted on 2010-04-28 by Ben Atkin

I’ve always had the type of job where I’m given a set of responsibilities and some tasks. Many of these tasks are things that have a quick-and-dirty way of doing it, and could be expanded to just about anything. Clients … Continue reading →

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ship often; prototype more often

Posted on 2010-04-24 by Ben Atkin

Note: After letting this sink in, and participating on the Year Of Hustle forums, I think I was just making excuses. When I’ve had success “prototyping”, I was doing it with the intent to ship. I could have released my … Continue reading →

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pick.im and keyboard-less searching

Posted on 2010-04-09 by Ben Atkin

My friend Andrew Hyde recently launched a really cool service for freelancers called pick.im (pronounced (pick ‘em). Here’s what it looks like in Mobile Safari on the iPad: It searches based on three things: location, type of service, and budget. … Continue reading →

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new grem feature: jumping quickly to a location on github.com

Posted on 2010-04-08 by Ben Atkin

I added a new feature to grem: if you’re somewhere in your ~/github directory, you can simply type “grem” and the program will use launchy to open an appropriate page on GitHub in the default browser. For example: if you’re … Continue reading →

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