Subharmonic Synthesis

2015-2016

For devs:

React Native will be big

Languages designed around type inference, concurrency, and performance will start gaining popularity relative to current server-side languages/frameworks (node.js/ruby on rails)

Google/Android will release an equivalent to Apple HealthKit

Tech:

Microsoft Hololens will be huge

Oculus will be huge

Apple Watch will flop (in Apple standards)

Google Glass will stay dead

2020-2025

Dirtyloops came to Boston! It was sweet. They asked how many Berklee kids were there and half the crowd raised their hands.

It's time consuming to download a lot of images when they're opened as tabs in Chrome, and I couldn't find an extension that did it for me, so I wrote one up to do it in one click.

Chrome extension development is pretty much the same as clientside web development - the dev cycle is nice and fast and you can use devtools to debug. I dig it.

There's currently no built-in way to center the Squarespace calendar element/widget, so even if you use spacers, it'll be left-justified:

You can change this by adding just a bit of custom CSS (in the styles sidebar):

.yui3-squarespacecalendar-content { margin: 0 auto !important; }

The calendar should now be centered:

.webp images are becoming more popular, but for my Windows 7 setup, Windows explorer doesn't display thumbnail images for them.