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• 2010-08-14

  

  The Soul of a Portable Machine

  Instead of lugging a laptop around, why not carry just the bits? I don’t mean keeping your files on a USB key, or even booting from an external drive. I mean storing the entire “soul”: the applications, data, OS and RAM image as a virtual machine you carry around on a portable drive. You could plug it into any sufficiently powerful host and resume your work without interruption.

  So, I tried it. My primary “computer” is a $25 USB flash drive that I plug into $2,500 dumb terminals…

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  A screenshot of the TextMate interface is like a photograph of snow.

  — Zeldman

• 2010-08-08

  

  Minimalist House

• 2010-07-18

  Inbox Unicorns With Gmail & IMAP

  It’s possible to bend Gmail, IMAP and Apple Mail to your will. The following steps describe how to configure things so that Delete acts like Archive: one click (or keypress) archives messages in Apple mail on the desktop and the iPhone.

• 2010-06-04

  stonesoup

  a blog that helps people become better home cooks by using a minimalist approach in the kitchen.

• 2010-05-25

  

  KHANATE’s Things Viral – minimal, extreme doom metal.

• 2010-04-20

  

  (via ummhello)

• 2010-04-14

  

  About Blank

  No logo, no web address, no other identifiers on the cover. The notebook doesn’t even have a pre-determined front or back, top or bottom.

• 2010-04-06

  C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

  — K&R

• 2010-03-21

  Google: ‘Our Philosophy’

  1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
  2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
  3. Fast is better than slow.
  4. Democracy on the web works.
  5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
  6. You can make money without doing evil.
  7. There’s always more information out there.
  8. The need for information crosses all borders.
  9. You can be serious without a suit.
  10. Great just isn’t good enough.