Blog Profile / Paul Stamatiou
| URL : | http://paulstamatiou.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 227 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.9 | |
| Archived Since: | August 19, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Simplify.
I have been thinking a lot about simplifying my life recently. I started a stellar new job four months ago and it felt like a great time to change other parts of my life. I used to be a slave to my startups. If I wasn't working, I had...Show More Summary
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2)
This is the last part in my three-part series about the design and development of a responsive and so-called Retina-friendly website. While I have covered my development process, media queries for responsive development, and various JS libraries I use, I'm going to talk about images in much more depth in this article. Show More Summary
My Setup
I have always been a fan of The Setup and have been maintaining my own Stuff I Use page for some years now so it only made sense that I would eventually write my own such article. This is how I work and what I use to do it. If you have...Show More Summary
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1)
In my last post, Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site, I covered my design process and thoughts behind redesigning this site. I did not cover any aspects of actual development or any Jekyll specifics. This post will mainly cover...Show More Summary
Joining Twitter
I have always wanted to work at Twitter but never actually thought about it until Akash Garg reached out a few months ago 1. Yes, this is a post announcing that I have joined the flock at Twitter. I signed up for Twitter exactly sixShow More Summary
Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site
It's hard to believe I have been blogging for more than 7 years. Michael Wozniak, my hallmate during my freshman year at Georgia Tech, had gotten me into Gentoo Linux the year prior and told he was playing with WordPress 1.2. Compared...Show More Summary
Twitter Review: New Gmail iPhone app
Google recently released a new iPhone app for Gmail this week to much fanfare. After the third blog post citing how "slick" it was, I gave it a go myself. I currently use Sparrow for email on my Phone. After having it installed for 5 minutes, I asked the Twitterverse what they think: New Gmail iPhone app: discuss. Show More Summary
VorePad, The Convore iPad App
My co-founder, Jazzychad, is rolling out his latest iPad app today. It's called VorePad and it's the best (and first) iPad client for Convore. Convore of course is the latest online forum and chat site craze to hit the internet, created...Show More Summary
My TechCrunch Post for First-time Startup Entrepreneurs
In case you didn't catch it, I wrote my first TechCrunch guest post earlier this month. It's aptly named First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop Fucking Around and it's my take on how first-time startuppers should work and get things done. Show More Summary
My First Hackintosh
A year ago I wrote about how I wanted to build a Hackintosh. Oddly enough, exactly a year later, I ended up getting around to it.
My roommate/cofounder Akshay had a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R motherboard and Core 2 Quad CPU lying around from his last hackintosh (he's since upgrade to Sandy Bridge). Show More Summary
The Life of a Startup in Commits
Here's a GitHub impact graph of every Skribit code commit. Starting from November 2007 during Startup Weekend (hence all the contributors initially), progressing through to when I began working full-time on Skribit in 2009, when we slowed things down in mid-2010 and then pulled it offline in April 2011. Show More Summary
Mini Review: Jawbone Jambox Bluetooth Speaker
Over the past two weeks of traveling I have been using the Jawbone Jambox wireless bluetooth speaker extensively. I have concluded that it is quite possible the best thing ever created for frequent travelers 1. Great for filling up your...Show More Summary
Ad-hoc Wifi in the Sky
How do you collaborate on work when you and your cofounder are on a 6.5 hour wifi-less flight and couldn't get adjacent seats? Create an ad-hoc wifi network and use bonjour messaging in iChat. I'm pretty sure we annoyed some people next to us...
Enjoy this post? Click through and leave a comment. It will make my day. Ad-hoc Wifi in the Sky
On Venmo and Payments
When was the last time you were so enthused about a product you actually wanted to pay your friends to get on it with you? Venmo is that magical service for me. It's a fantastic product (consider me a brand ambassador if you will, IShow More Summary
iPhone Picture Stats
I recently ran out of space on my iPhone 4S and did my yearly ritual of moving last year's photos off of my phone. Here's what my iPhone-taken photo and video stats look like: 2007 - 431 photos - 160MB 2008 - 1,764 photos - 650MB 2009...Show More Summary
R.I.P. 1920x1200
I'm at home in Houston for the holidays and of course working on Picplum stuff when I'm not chasing my 18-month old nephew around. I'm used to working on my 27-inch Apple display so hacking away on the Air's native resolution took was not quite for me. Show More Summary
CoffeeScript
After months of hearing about CoffeeScript and having it on my to-do list week after week, I finally got around to really reading up on it during my flight from SFO to IAH. I tweeted that I was in the middle of moving Picplum over to CoffeeScript and got no less than 10 people asking me why. CoffeeScript is much like Sass and Haml. Show More Summary
DNSCrypt
Head over to OpenDNS and install DNSCrypt for Mac. DNSCrypt, in a nutshell, encrypts all DNS traffic between you and OpenDNS. If you've been reading my blog since the early days, you've already been up to date on what their primary product does (kickass faster and smarter DNS). Show More Summary
Give the gift of Picplum
Akshay and I just rolled out our Picplum gift page after receiving countless emails from people asking how they could buy gift Picplum to friends and family. Powered by Stripe, of course.
For more on what Picplum is all about be sure to checkout our revamped Tour page. Show More Summary
Sennheiser HD 650... Wow
After I mentioned that I was no longer happy with my Dr Dre Beats Studio headphones in a recent blog post, The Coding Zone, a mysterious package arrived from Amazon. It was a pair of pristine Sennheiser HD 650 headphones; a kickass gift from my friend Noah Kagan of AppSumo. Show More Summary