I'm Fabien Penso, creator of Push.
Rails & iPhone developer.

  1. SFR Fibre Kaput

    My home Internet fiber connection is dead for 16 hours, and it took 15 hours for SFR to tweet about it through their @SFR_SAV account. I never really looked at a network status page for SFR but there is none. I wish any providers had something that simple for you to know about their current issues, instead of that ugly example I understand nothing about.

    I’m not the only one wondering.

    1 week ago

  2. Sunday, 22 April 2012

  3. Valve New Employees Handbook →

    3 weeks ago ～

    A lot of buzz has been going online about this Valve New Employees Handbook, and I suggest you read it all, very informative.

    … for the most part working overtime for extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in planning or communication. If this happens at Valve, it’s a sign that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected. 

    My (very limited) experience from San Francisco is a lot of companies and startups want to be working this way, but I found none succeeding. I’d say a very, very small percent of the ones trying are succeeding.

    But when you read this book, you want to work for Valve. Good PR work Valve!

  4. Thursday, 12 April 2012

  5. Scaling Instagram: slides →

    1 month ago ～

    You might wanna read this, and the secrets to lightning fast mobile design.

  6. Monday, 9 April 2012

  7. Facebook buys Instagram →

    1 month ago ～

    I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

    Massive news.

  8. Wednesday, 4 April 2012

  9. Android Version of Instagram Gets 2,000 Signups a Minute →

    1 month ago ～

    Looks like Instagram is on the right track, Polaroid replacement?

  10. Tuesday, 20 March 2012

  11. Seventy years on and still hard to beat →

    1 month ago ～

    Take a look at these old pictures from the US Library of Congress. Note the skin tones, the colour balance, the tonal range, the clarity and the sharpness. And then consider that they were shot about seventy years ago. They’ve received a spot of post production before being uploaded to the web but the distinction with the average online gallery of today is stark.

    Then compare with your iPhone4 pictures.

  12. Wednesday, 14 March 2012

  13. Sigma $6800 DSLR now available for $2299 →

    2 months ago ～

    Sigma released a DSLR for close to $10k, you actually bought it for $6,800, a year later the brand sets a new price: $2,299.

    Sigma has now announced they will help out those who bought one of these SD1′s at full price 

    I’d be pissed.

  14. Rumors: Leica with BW sensor, no LCD screen →

    2 months ago ～

    This is only a rumor but as Leica was asking a few photographers what we thought about it (years ago, the M9 wasn’t even real back then). Could be real.

  15. How I am (and you should be) writing software

    while feature_left?
  new_test = add_a_test_for(new_feature)
  if new_test.pass?
    double_check_it_really_works
  while new_test.fail?
    fix_code

    2 months ago

  16. Monday, 12 March 2012

  17. The pirate box: sharing files with friends →

    2 months ago ～

    Remember the good old days, demo parties with 1% of coder and 99% of leecher/warez/hackers etc? well now you can have your own pirate box. A hard drive, a linux wifi router, and you’re good to go.

  18. AT&T: charging you $1 every time you’ve looked at 4 photos

    The new iPad allows a much higher resolution, better for photos. At 2048x1536 resolution, a JPEG file weights about 4MB. Let’s see AT&T iPad plans:

    • 250MB data: $14.99/month: 62 photos. That’s $1 spent every time you looked at 4 photos while being on 3G/4G.
    • 3GB data: $30.00/month: 750 photos. That’s $1 spent per 25 photos.
    • 5GB data: $50.00/month: 1250 photos. That’s $1 spent per 25 photos.

    Better think twice before browsing on 3G/LTE.

    (1GB = 1000MB as providers probably do anyway)

    2 months ago

  19. How to flight with guns →

    2 months ago ～

    TSA spending 1 billion USD for making flight travelers less safe. This is amazing, must watch video.

  20. Wednesday, 7 March 2012

  21. Bottom line of the instapaper / readability story →

    2 months ago ～

    My RSS reader is full of stories about the release of readability on iPhone, and what it means for Instapaper and other services. Paul Haddad has a funny tweet about it:

    OMG the service that used to pay people for their scraped content isn’t paying as much anymore, let’s switch to the service that never paid!

  22. Sunday, 4 March 2012

  23. Does GitHub have a security issue? →

    2 months ago ～

    It seems so, as someone committed to the Rails master branch without privilege. Brrr.

  24. Tuesday, 28 February 2012

  25. Path client for MacOS available →

    2 months ago ～

    First unofficial Path client for Mac, MIT license (available on Github), coded during a hackathon in Singapore. Props to the developers and to Path.