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Licorize, a cloud-based bit bucket:

If you read Shawn Blanc’s blog you might have read his post about ttttak. In that post he writes:

Another problem: You’re online with your iPhone or iPad and you come across something you want to do, but at the moment don’t have the time to do it (or perhaps because of the device you’re on you don’t have the ability).

The solution: Something that, so far as I can tell, does not yet exist: A cloud-based, task-management bucket where you can throw links, tips, bookmarks, and the like — all of which are actionable. It would be able to receive these tasks via in-app services, email, or a browser bookmarklet. And I vote we call it ttttask.

Similarly to the way Instapaper as a service is for articles you wish to read later, ttttask would be a service for things you wish to do later.

A great idea, one I’ve been working on for some time but development is slow due to two things: lack of time and knowledge of some of the web technologies needed for this.

Yesterday a reader sent me an email with a link to Licorize and immediately I saw the potential of it. I’ve been trying it for the last 24 hours to just send links, todo’s and other bits of information into Licorize. I broke them down into projects and it’s been working great.

Last night I just reviewed the things I placed there and acted on them, read what I wanted to read, did what I needed to do, checked what I wanted to check and set those items to “done”.

Licorize allows you to add a bookmarklet to shove information into it, like Instapaper, or you can chose a plugin for different browsers.

I like it.

Floating in space: The Minimalist’s Desk | LifeHacker:

makeitmanageable:

The shelf slides away to reveal his MacBook… This is pretty ingenious.

Bluish is the title of a 2009 installation by Berlin-based artist Ayse Erkmen. Isn’t it just gorgeous? I love the contrast between its monumental form and its apparent weightlessness.

The transparency of the material chosen for this work casts a beautiful shadow of blue on the gallery floor. The height at which it is suspended also invites people to experience the sensation of standing underneath it, and therefore also in direct contact with the colour blue.

Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess:

(via zenhabits)

Interview with Tech Consultant, Curator, and Writer Patrick Rhone | Life Of The Freelancer:

This is not directly Minimal Mac related but enough readers here have gotten in touch to ask me about my technical consulting business that I felt it worthy. In fact, I get pinged about 2-3 times a week these days with questions that all center around “How do I do what you do?”.

Recently, Robert Dempsey of Life of The Freelancer asked to interview me about my journey and my advice for others that want to get into it. It’s a bit long at just under 50 minutes. That said, it contains just about everything I know for people to get started.

Via Iconwerk

“The inherent complexity of a software system is related to the problem it is trying to solve. The actual complexity is related to the size and structure of the software system as actually built. The difference is a measure of the inability to match the solution to the problem.”

- Kevlin Henney, “For the sake of simplicity”