Author: Markos Giannopoulos

Flybys: Strava replays an entire race

Available for some time in test mode, Flybys is a (now more prominently displayed) feature from Strava that allows you to replay multiple runs of users of the…

Smiling is it's own reward

"In part positivity reflects the brain’s reward circuitry in action. When we’re happy, the nucleus accumbens, a region within the ventral striatum in the middle of the brain,…

RescueTime now integrates with IFTTT, Zapier, Slack

In the age of APIs and integrations, as Twitter goes backwards and shuts down one API after the other in a awkward attempt to monetise, other companies improve…

Weekend productivity experiment: (Almost) no e-mail

This will probably be easy as I don't get a lot of e-mail over the weekend anyway. - Rule 1: Don't open Mail on the desktop - Rule…

14-Year old builds his own digital clock, brings it to school, teacher has him arrested

Apparently there are teachers and police officers with such a complete lack of science literacy that consider any digital clock to be almost a time bomb, especially if…

Fight procrastination with timed bursts and Time Out (Mac)

I'm currently reading the excellent "Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management" by Mark Foster and one of the first things that caught my are timed…

Between (cropped) Giants

Relax, you're insignificant, none of this really matters

Described in Judd Apatow’s recent book, Sick in the Head, Jerry Seinfield's solution for relaxing during a stressful period: look at photos of space taken by the Hubble…

The employee of the future (=today)

The changes in the chart are already here. Denying them or denouncing them as part of an evil capitalistic scheme to further oppress the working masses isn't going…

TripMode: Control what's eating your mobile bandwidth

If you're often connecting your Mac laptop on the road through a mobile connection (phone, USB dongle, etc), TripMode will show you which app is using how much…