Sweet Distractions

Hammerspoon

If you’re into workflow automation, then you might want to check this out. Hammerspoon is Lua based scripting engine for OS X. Just write the code in Lua language and it can interact with OS X APIs such as: clipboard, mouse pointers,filesystem objects, audio, batteries, and more.

If your nerdy side is kickin’ out then why not to try this?

Pale Blue Dot

Forget about Valentine Days. On February 14, 1990 NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft capture a photo of our solar system. The photo includes Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Venus and Earth-which showed up as pale blue dot in the brown light that resembles a beam of sunlight. This year, the photo is turned 25 years old.

The photo was taken when Voyager 1 was 40 astronomical units from the sun which is equivalent to 6000 million kilometers.

Carl Sagan wrote in his “Pale Blue Dot” book:

“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. … There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.”

This photo is kinda a reminder that with all of our passion, all of our love, lucks and sucks, all of our dreams and shits we still isn’t bigger than a dust or even a pixel.

It’s good to be reminded this way once in a while.

Favorite App For Shared Lists

Available in all platform even as browser extensions, syncs pretty well, can add subtask and attach PDF, media, link, easy sharing with others. Well, no wonder they pick Wunderlist.

Small screen productivity

Matt Gemmell:

There’s something comforting about large screens; I’m well aware of that, and I feel it too. The expanse of screen-space hints at creative possibilities. You probably wouldn’t want to do full-time graphics work or app development without a large and/or additional screen, either. You can, but those are specialised disciplines where you can make a strong argument for two-up or even larger displays.

For the vast bulk of stuff that most people will want to do on a computer, though, most of the time you don’t need a desktop monster. I don’t think you even need a 15” screen, which is essentially a portable desktop. You just have to use a small screen productively.

Dear Macbook Air user, you should read this.