John Clarke

Wow, seems everywhere I go people are either:
(a) quitting their jobs;
(b) having bad breakups;
(c) the crazies are coming out of the woodwork

So, what’s been happening on my end? Well…

Quit my job end of February. Yup, nobody knew. Bigger surprise: I’m leaving IT in its entirety. I’m done with it, can’t take it anymore. Constant bitching from clients, colleagues and bosses, there is more to this surely? So what am I going to do for a living? Architecture. Yup, you read that right, architecture. Doing a draughtsman course at the moment, 5 weeks in already. Who knew…

Then, had a very crap, heart-shattering breakup 2 weeks ago. Few know about it. Still love her with all of my heart, although she won’t ever talk to me again. We both made mistakes, but the way we parted wasn’t good at all and not lovely either… So, whenever people have been coming to me with their stories recently I have to just put up a brave face the whole time. Interesting how nobody even asked how things are between us or anything, guess that shows who your real friends are I suppose…

Then, oh yes I am not done yet, I am wanting to make a absolute new start somewhere, away from it all that is familiar. Was in London over the weekend, looking at places that I’d potentially move to. Heading to New York end of April to look at places there as well. Only time will tell what happens

So yes, keep in mind that those that always listen to your nagging and bitching and self-pity might be going through the same without you even knowing it.

Usually I don’t open up like this, as I keep my personal life offline, but I hope that this turning point in life has some positive feedback for myself

Onwards and upwards :)

My poor-poor salary…

imjustcreative:

Sean Connery responds to Steve Jobs by letter.

 prostheticknowledge:

Sean Connery responds to Steve Jobs’ attempt to get him to be the Mac spokesman. (via twentypercentcooler + agsystems)

Jobs must have been pushing too hard.

sausage: Contextual pagination for jQuery »

thechangelog:

Not everything that extends $ is money, so it’s rare we cover jQuery plugins. However, Sausage from Christopher Cliff has a unique take on pagination:

Sausage is meant to be used with infinite (or at least long) scrolling pages and adds pagination markers to the margin. For a real-world example, check out how Sausage enhances the online version of CouchDB The Definitive Guide with just the following code:

$(window)
    .sausage({
        content: function (i, $page) {
            return '<span class="sausage-span">'
                + $page.find('.anchor').first().text()
                + '</span>';
        }
    })
    ;

For more information or examples, check the web site or examples in the project. Be sure and follow @SausageJS for updates.

[Source on GitHub]

(Source: thechangelog)

solarized: Light and dark precision color scheme for terminal apps, editors »

thechangelog:

We developers spend as much time finding the right color scheme for our text editors and command line tools as we do using them. Normally, you find your tool of choice and then browse the gallery of themes to pick one to use or customize.

Ethan Schoonover has taken a different approach with Solarized, a theme that comes with support for a number of tools out of the box including:

• Vim
• Mutt e-mail client
• Xresources / Xdefaults
• iTerm2
• OS X Terminal.app
• Adobe Photoshop Palette (inc. Lab values)
• Apple Color Picker Palette
• GIMP Palette

Never before has so much design gone into a color theme. Ethan supports both light and dark variations to support selective contrast and other features

There’s even a Sass implementation:

$base03:    #002b36;
$base02:    #073642;
$base01:    #586e75;
$base00:    #657b83;
$base0:     #839496;
$base1:     #93a1a1;
$base2:     #eee8d5;
$base3:     #fdf6e3;
$yellow:    #b58900;
$orange:    #cb4b16;
$red:       #d30102;
$magenta:   #d33682;
$violet:    #6c71c4;
$blue:      #268bd2;
$cyan:      #2aa198;
$green:     #859900;
@mixin rebase($rebase03,$rebase02,$rebase01,$rebase00,$rebase0,$rebase1,$rebase2,$rebase3) 
{
    background-color:$rebase03;
    color:$rebase0;
    * { color:$rebase0; }
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { color:$rebase1; border-color: $rebase0; }
    a, a:active, a:visited { color: $rebase1; }
}
@mixin accentize($accent) {
    a, a:active, a:visited, code.url { color: $accent; }
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {color:$accent}
}
/* light is default mode, so pair with general html definition */
html, .light { @include rebase($base3,$base2,$base1,$base0,$base00,$base01,$base02,$base03)}
.dark  { @include rebase($base03,$base02,$base01,$base00,$base0,$base1,$base2,$base3)}
html * {
    color-profile: sRGB;
    rendering-intent: auto;
}

We didn’t see TextMate support. Perhaps you could fork the project and contribute.

[Source on GitHub]

(Source: thechangelog)

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