Introducing Lebanese Tweets
A few days ago, I was approached by my friend Mireille about an idea. She reminded me of the Nouwweb Api and told me that one of the pieces of information it indexes was the twitter accounts of...
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There Is No Shame in Admitting That Nostalgia Is a Form of Weakness
Vinyl doesn’t sound better than digital music. Typewriters are not better than keyboards. Photos from film don’t look better than digital photos. Analogue cinema doesn’t look better than digital...
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Surrendering to Facebook
If you look at the bottom of this post, you will notice that I have changed my commenting system from Disqus to Facebook’s. I figured that since Facebook is eating the internet and all, I might as...
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Old Fashioned Israeli Spy
This morning, I read in Naharnet that the wife of one of the guards in Parliament Square is an Israeli spy. What most caught my attention was her dastardly mission: investigators found out that the...
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I Built a New School Website. Check it Out
A few months ago, I got a call from Dr. Fatma Odaymat, the ambitious and brilliant principal of ARIS, a forward thinking international school here in Ghana. The school’s previous website, Fatma told...
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How I Solved the Notifications Paradox
A few days ago I made a small change to my iPhone settings that made wonders to my productivity. But before I talk about that, let me tell you a bit about what I call the notifications paradox. Paradox...
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Lebanese Tweets, Take 2
About a month ago, I announced a little weekend project called Lebanese Tweets that tracks the tweets of Lebanese Mps. Today I’m introducing a revamp to that project, where I’m officially adding...
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From A User’s Perspective, Facebook Instant Articles are a Big Deal
Facebook has finally announced the much anticipated Instant Articles, where Facebook actually hosts the content of newspapers (selected ones for now), instead of providing links that take you to the...
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A Cool Hack to Upload iOS Photos to Google Photos in the Background
I’ve been trying to upload my huge photos Library from iOS Photos to Google Photos, but I was frustrated with iOS’s limitations regarding background activities. (I’ve explored Google’s desktop uploader...
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Weekend Project: youstink.news
Like many of you, I sat mesmerized at the demonstrations taking place in lebanon for the #youstink movement. But I found it difficult to keep a handle on the torrent of news, photos, videos and tweets...
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