LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

"But robots will never be able to create art." Yeah, right.

Weekend coding

I’ve spent this gray and cloudy Sunday afternoon doodling around, putting some of my recent ideas into small rapid-prototype kinds of code bits. And it was fun.
Once in a while I notice how the daily work with code clouds my memory and makes me forget that I chose this profession mostly because it is so much fun. I shall try to not forget about that again.

I need to talk to you about computers.

I need to talk to you about computers.

Insightful essay about the history of computers in the light of the iPad.

Alex Payne — On the iPad

Alex Payne — On the iPad

"The future of personal computing that the iPad shows us is both seductive and dystopian. It’s not a future I want to bring into my home."

A successful Git branching model

A successful Git branching model

This looks like a well thought-out version control model. I'll really have to start looking at git soon.

View-Source Is Good? Discuss.

View-Source Is Good? Discuss.

Yes, "view source" is good. It's basically the best thing ever. We learn by example – and the fact that stuff like this is "open" helped HTML/CSS/JS to get the importance it has these days.

How Do You Look When Merging Fails

How Do You Look When Merging Fails

Hahaha, this should be standard in all our projects from now on. I have seen so many mergefail-faces on my co-workers (and they on me)