Feross.org

This is how my iPhone looked after I shattered the screen. Such a sad sight...

And then I fixed my iPhone.

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I’ve long believed that modern hip-hop and R&B suffers from too much post-production. Average singers can wail away in front of the microphone yet sound amazing on the radio, after the post-production techs have fixed all the mistakes. This is why all the music on the radio sounds so similar — it’s all pitch-perfect.

Today, I discovered just how little talent it requires to make a modern pop song.

MacBook Pro + Built-in Mic + GarageBand + AutoTune + 1 hour =

Feross Aboukhadijeh - Amazing

VS.

Kanye West (ft. Young Jeezy) - Amazing

Go ahead and click PLAY above to give my cover song a listen.

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I just read an interesting opinion column about technology illiteracy over at TidBITS. The author, Adam Engst, argues that as technology becomes easier to use and hence more transparent, society has lost the ability to converse about technology.

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This is awesomeness in concentrated form. Seriously, kids 15 years from now are going to be SO spoiled.

Take a closer look at the new Twitter homepage layout (Click to enlarge)

Twitter has a new layout. I just noticed it when creating a new account for my ACT study notes website. To my best knowledge, I was the first Twtter user to tweet about it, too!

Details about Twitter’s New Layout

For now, it looks like Twitter’s new design is only visible to new accounts, or it being rolled out slowly, since my personal @FreeTheFeross account still gets the old layout.

The new design is an incremental improvement for sure, but there are some notable changes which hint at what Twitter’s focus might be in the coming months and years. Here’s a quick summary of the obvious changes:

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I decided to figure out how many Feross’s I could fit in one URL, with each one serving a different function. Here is my result:

http://feross.feross.org/feross/feross.feross?feross=feross#feross

You found the secret page.

If you remove a single “feross” from the URL, then you fail and don’t get to see the secret stuff hidden at this location!

Every feross serves a different function in the URL.

Can you name all the feross’s?

In order, they are:

• subdomain
• domain name
• TLD – top level domain (technically this one isn’t a feross …yet!)
• folder
• file name
• file extension
• “get” parameter
• “get” value
• URL anchor (or hash)

Ok, back to studying for finals!

EDIT: updated TLD description because it’s .org not .feross. Thanks Daniel!