Scott Hanselman

I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here Newsletter of Wonderful Things or just wait and get them later on the blog, which hopefully you have subscribed to. Email folks get it first!

Here's the most recent newsletter that I sent out April 24th.  

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon recently. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

Remember, you get the newsletter here first. This one will be posted to the blog as an archive in a few weeks. 

• Did you know NerdCore is a musical style? Of course you did, and you appreciate it. I know you'll dig Dale O. Chase's new album "TypeDef." Be sure to explore the lyrics, they are brilliant. You can listen online for free and name your price.
• Great presentation deck from Garann Means about what happens when developers become a collection of tropes.
• What happens when you wring out a wet towel whilst in space?
• Wonderful 60's era documentary on YouTube about how the Pirates of the Caribbean came to be. 
• How to make YOUR open source project really awesome.
• I enjoy reading Young Adult Fiction. It's my pulp. Easy to read and relaxing. Here's a good list of the (kind of) latest.
• "A web designer walks into a bar, but immediately leaves in disgust upon noticing the tables layout."
• So you're a web designers who loves CSS but you also love the British. Why not http://spiffingcss.com/?
• Comedian Patton Oswalt filibusters on Parks and Recreation.
• Here's a cute animation that shows all of Star Wars in just one minute! Fun for the kids.
• Thinking of getting a new fancy smart watch? There's nearly 40 years of history behind them.
• Do you love Sriracha hot sauce? Here's the guy behind it.
• This guy has .NET running on a $35 Raspberry Pi.
• I love charts, graphs and visualizations. I like stacked bar charts, so how about Flame Graphs?
• Tearable cloth simulation in raw JavaScript, thereby cementing that I have NO idea what I'm doing.
• Sometimes the best packaging is the most clever, but not the most expensive.
• Of the 100 richest people in the world, 8 had no family money nor a degree. How did they do it?
• Finally, don't forget that the free community-organized DotNetConf is streaming live the 25th and 26th. Videos will be recorded and available.

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About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here Newsletter of Wonderful Things or just wait and get them later on the blog, which hopefully you have subscribed to. Email folks get it first!

Here's the MOST RECENT newsletter, delay-posted as I do.

Hi Interfriends,

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

• 38 gifs of stupid infomercial people
• Someone just needs to by me a DoubleRobotics robot. It's an iPad on a stick !
• I totally redesigned my site(s). Have you seen? Stop by http://hanselman.com and http://hanselminutes.com
• The CSS work on the site was just like this. 
• Really sit down and see if you understand this. A cloth dynamics demo in JavaScript .
• Got $20k? Got it 10 times? Top 10 Living Legend Watches To Own
• http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com
• When you go to a conference, sit in the front row.
• I can't handle infinity in my pocket
• Long, but fascinating read about building Photoshop 1.1 ...TODAY.
• Al Pacino: Full Roar
• 3D-ifying Documents Using CSS Transforms. Amazing and very clearly written.
• Is giving the secret to getting ahead?
• HTML5 Audio Tags  aren't as easy and awesome as you'd think.
• Considering upgrading your podcast or audio gear with a new mic?
• Wanna work for Microsoft? My buddy is hiring. Tell him I sent you.
• I'm saving money in the cloud by making every byte count.
• The boys and I watched The Hobbit, this time on BluRay. It's actually better NOT in 3D and on a smaller screen.

Scott Hanselman

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P.P.S. You know you can forward this to your friends, right?

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here Newsletter of Wonderful Things or just wait and get them later on the blog, which hopefully you have subscribed to.

Here's the LAST newsletter, delay-posted as I do.

Hi Interfriends,

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter  and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

• Interesting HackerNews thread about making "The Matrix" in JavaScript in less than 600 bytes.
• In fact, HackerNewsletter is a good way to get just the good stuff out of HackerNews.
• Pure CSS Speech Bubbles. Yes please.
• Batman Replacing Characters In Other Movies. Insane.
• What happens if you replace all the guns in movies with a Thumbs Up?
• The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development
• Candid superhero moments.
• Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling in 1994. Don't ask.
• Fascinating: Growing up Black in China.
• The Pope in 2005 and in 2013. Notice something in the crowd?
• Jean Grae is the greatest female MC you've never heard of. Well, I have. But YOU haven't.
• Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor?
• What to ask for when there's no room in salary negotiations.
• Why you love Amazon's giant dropdown. There's science behind how it works. 
• Olympic-style Swim Lane graphics in CSS3 . Yes, the web won. 
• Have you broken up with someone over the lack of an Oxford Comma? Perhaps you should have.
• Technology fails in film are the new Wilhelm Scream
• Where Star Wars drew all inspiration .

Scott Hanselman

(BTW, since you *love* email you can subscribe to my blog via email here: http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselmanDO IT!)

P.P.S. You know you can forward this to your friends, right?

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

About   Newsletter

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I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for some of you  Dear Readers. Therefore, I will still do the newsletter, but I'll post each newsletter to the blog some weeks later.

You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here Newsletter of Wonderful Things or just wait and get them later on the blog, which hopefully you have subscribed to.

Here's the LAST newsletter, delay-posted as I do.

Hi Interfriends,

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder, you signed up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

• Penny Arcade reviews the Surface Pro http://flip.it/ckSfg
• Cloud Servers go down. Who Owns My Availability?
• Time to teach your kids how to program? Perhaps use scratch.mit.edu
• This is why Google Glass will never catch on.
• "Never waste your time explaining yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. ~dream hampton"
• This is how people queue in Thailand.
• Inspiration for any http://futurewomanintech.com
• Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting
• My wife and I kept an audio diary last year while she had Cancer treatment. We turned it into a This Developer's Life episode.
• I've got two new videos up at TekPub you likely haven't seen.
• Aptiverse.com blog: Three CSS features you need to know about
• Is Speed Reading real?
• Great F# end to end example.
• These three dice don't follow the rules...of reality.
• BBC News - The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures
• CR/LF is a problem. You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall
• How the futuristic cityscapes of 'Looper' were created
• TinySort, a truly useful jQuery plugin.
• The big LEGO X-Wing is coming back.
• Fascinating (and LONG) history of Pulp Fiction
• Treatment of the Veteran Who Shot bin Laden - Esquire
• Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle
• When the world ends, who knows how to make a pencil?

Scott Hanselman

(BTW, since you *love* email you can subscribe to my blog via email here: http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselman DO IT!)

P.P.S. You know you can forward this to your friends, right?

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About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

About   Newsletter

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I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for some of you  Dear Readers. Therefore, I will still do the newsletter, but I'll post each newsletter to the blog some weeks later.

You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here Newsletter of Wonderful Things or just wait and get them later on the blog, which hopefully you have subscribed to.

Hi Interfriends,

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder, you signed up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

• Great introduction to D3.js - a ridiculously powerful javascript library for visualizations. D3 show reel.
• A PILE of LifeHacks. Really take a minute and check them out. MIND BLOWN.
• From John Carmack: "'Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function."
• This is what happens if you give a cake shop a USB stick containing an image you want to appear on a cake:http://i.imgur.com/xTQEp9Z.jpg via @harrisimo
• A great pep talk from Kid President.
• A good list of the most popular fonts of 2012, by http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/sp/201301.html
• Plex is the media center software ecosystem I've been waiting for
• "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. - WG"
• So, this happened. http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com
• Guy recreates entire Toy Story using real toys and live action.
• Learn How to Use Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry
• Doom 3: Gangnam Style using WebGL, all in your modern browser. Insane.
• 300 Million Year Old Machine found in Russia...aliens?
• Attractive JavaScript plotting for jQuery
• Learn Advanced HTML & CSS with one useful guide
• Wonder how those Computer UIs in movies like Tron get created?
• Taking project management too far? Scrum for Kids.
• The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
• Meet “Dashan,” the Canadian Comedian Who Achieved Accidental Stardom in China

Scott Hanselman

(BTW, since you *love* email you can subscribe to my blog via email here: http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselman DO IT!)

P.P.S. You know you can forward this to your friends, right?

Sponsor: Big thanks to this week's sponsor. I've checked this book out myself and it's VERY useful. Free eBook – 50 ASP. NET & SQL Server performance tips from the dev community, to help you avoid, find, and fix performance issues in your ASP.NET app. Download it from http://www.red-gate.com/50ways

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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