I truly enjoy the finer things in life. For example, if I’m going to eat a steak I don’t want some fatty low grade piece of meat. I would much rather (in this case, spend the additional money) to get an AAA grade of meat. The taste is worth it.
The same is true with development; the Twitter Timeline is “nice”, but I personally don’t want a linear, scrollable representation of my Tweets! I want the AAA grade where in this case it just takes a little bit more time instead of money… As you can see above, my Tweets are sliding in and out every 7.5 seconds. Once it cycles through my latest 10, it restarts again.
If there is one thing I don’t like doing – it’s doing the same thing twice or even more! So I was building an application on the side where I need to have a listing that performs a simple countdown. At this point I’ve been lazy and just have it counting down the seconds, but this example would be really easy to update to put a proper countdown of days, hours, minutes, and seconds – and heck if you get really adventurous even weeks, months, and years!