Andy Chung » Ideas

This website

Andy Chung — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:43:16 +0000

I’m going to re-do my website. The role of andychung.ca might change – I no longer really need a portfolio to serve as something concise, but would rather create a collection/archive of things that surround me and that I have put thought into (more of a focus on tangents). Hoping to get to do this sooner rather than later. Oh also – more blawgging

Urban Bloggers

Andy Chung — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:34:01 +0000

I just saw on twitter that a certain agency has a job listing for “urban bloggers”. Know how you can guarantee a shit blog? By hiring someone who is applying to be a fucking “urban blogger”. Fucks sake, that’s embarrassing.

The iPad

Andy Chung — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:42:13 +0000

I am not an iPad fan. I tried to start iPad fights with David Lang and Harrison on msn tonight but neither of them wanted to hear it, so I thought I would write something here. Anyway there are a number of reasons the iPad sucks, but there is one reason in particular that is bothering me.

The iPad is a device that turns it’s users solely into consumers instead of creators. Computers up until this point have encouraged creativity by giving users the choice of software and tools to create whatever they want. If people who are new to technology start using the iPad they will never progress past a consumer level. The iPad is designed to make it easy for you to buy music, movies, books and apple approved applications. However you would never use it to develop a web page, create a piece of design or make music. The iPad, more or less, only allows users to be a spectator and consumer of media. The iPad is aimed at people who aren’t tech savvy, and if they start using this they will remain non tech savvy and ignorant to the real value of computing. If the iPad catches on it’s just going to be the same as putting a TV in front of that user, which would really be taking 2 steps backwards.

I have no problem with the iPad for people who are already using computers daily and want something light and portable to use once in awhile, but what worries me is that this product is being marketed to a “new to computing” crowd.

The iPad is not a magical device, it’s simply going to make people less inquisitive. It’s so unfortunate that the iPad completely underestimates its audience. What’s much more amazing, and something that has been happening for a long time, is using a computer to make new and exciting ideas a reality.

Edit: Alex Payne summarizes my thoughts better than me.

-moz + -webkit

Andy Chung — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:01:23 +0000

Just wanted to reiterate something that I mentioned the other day.

re: HTML editors – After I type in a -moz value and hit return why am I not automatically given the -webkit value?

I bet this already exists in some editor, or there is an add-on. If so someone please enlighten me.

Ideas ♥

Andy Chung — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:16:41 +0000

I’ve decided to create a new category called ideas, so as to have a consolidated place to put raw ideas. It’s hard to keep track of ideas in notebooks.

✔ What if instead of having a “top” button at the bottom of the page, your content looped as if it were laid out on a conveyer belt*

✔ What if Twitter had an automatic hash tag feature, where you could create a list of words you wanted to always hash tag so you wouldn’t have to remember to insert the # sign yourself.

*This has been prototyped by Raindrop developer James Burke, but is incomplete. Maybe one day it will come to fruition.