Neal Shyam

Hi, my name is Neal and I’m a tab addict.

Two weeks ago, Isis Wenger was in subway ad.

This is our 100th issue!!

This is issue 99, just like FYI.

FYI: Our second anniversary is six weeks away.

#Realtalk, Chrome is killing me.

All puzzle games (Tetris, 2048, Angry Birds, Dots, etc.) get harder as you progress, but it’s rarely a surprise.

We’re about halfway through Summer Jam hackathon at work and I’ve had the pleasure of testing dozens of super awesome hackathon projects.

Fact: I’m awful at mobile apps.

Comma separated value (CSV) files are great for distributing data, but not for browsing through or interacting with it.

I have a love/hate relationship with Google Docs.

Have you ever wondered why more publishers don’t have “Share on WhatsApp” buttons on their mobile sites?"

How adaptive is your app?

Last weekend, I went to Comedy Hack Day 8, met some very funny people, and built MomMMS.

Earlier this week, a colleague suggested that, since we handle a lot of personal information, we should all encrypt our hard drives.

With so many new TLDs popping up, (.party, .rocks, .academy, .club, .university, etc.), it’s getting hard to gauge an organization’s legitimacy.

Instead of a library, script, or app, this week I want to show you an awesome web demo.

Last weekend, Cameron Cundiff did the world a solid by making the web more accessible at NYU’s ABILITY Hackathon.

Should we fear artificial intelligence or embrace it?

Web publishers use a lot of tactics to prevent you from downloading their images: transparent image overlays, non-viewable source code, etc. — but they all suck.

During a trip to Indonesia, I watched an art dealer handmake a cardboard box.

I know that I promised you more Ruby / Python / Shell stuff this week, but this project was too cool!

I know I’ve been writing about JavaScript a lot recently.

A few months ago, I took over marketing and community at ChallengePost.

At first glance, Instagram seems pretty rad.

At ChallengePost, my life is punctuated by hackathons.

Let’s say a client hands you a color palette: E903FCFAE00CFDF30309AED4 I know, it’s pretty garish, but the guy loves Miami Vice.

Here are a few aliases from my .zshrc.

On Monday night I made my first 3D game.

Every time somebody visits my apartment, I dread the question: “What’s your wifi?”

Your next webapp better be fast and intuitive.

My friends and I are quite fond of Uber.

I really dig it when journalists write articles with tweetable quotes.

SVGs have made the web a better place: graphics are sharper & Retina-ready.

Real talk, making apps is hard — especially when you’re flying solo.

Poncho is one of my favorite micro-apps.

I want to make an API this year, because it sounds like fun.

A few weeks ago, I came across Rant, a “language for adding rich variations to text,” written in C#.

Invented in 1987, the animated gif is a storied artifact of interwebs history.

Although I don’t know much about statistical testing or website optimization, I do want to.

This week’s project, Fetch Text, combines two of my favorite things, email & reading, in one really cool hack.

Last week, a buddy from b-school texted me about an “exciting new app idea”: P2P lending via Venmo.

According to Maslow, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

In my experience, scripts are easy, but GUIs aren’t.

Back in August, Popcorn Time debuted a beautiful media player that made streaming torrents as easy as watching Netflix.

This is my development process: Experience a brief burst of inspiration Go to bar, enjoy a lager, and formulate a solution Bang head against the wall until code works It’s not particularly efficient, but it works for me.

Everybody has their own criteria about what makes a great hackathon project, but mine is pretty simple: will I still be using it in a week?

Web designers make a lot of noise about fonts, colors, and the like — but it’s surprising how many avoid basic typography issues like curly quotes and proper dash usage.

Footnotes don’t get a lot of love from web designers.

A year ago, the only thing I knew about NoSQL was that MongoDB didn’t support joins.