Month: May 2021

  • Movie or Film?

    Movie or Film?

    For MoviePal, one of the questions was whether these things are called movies or films. One of the arguments I heard was that “movie” is American and “film” is British, the other argument was that “film” is an older term, which makes sense, since movies are not distributed as film anymore. Film is still used…

  • Twitter should implement rolling tweets.

    Twitter should implement rolling tweets.

    It’s really exciting to see Twitter innovating (again). I have an idea for a feature that might be very valuable: rolling tweets. A rolling tweet goes to a certain amount of users, like 10% or 1000 and then when you press a button, to another 10% and so on. You get to decide the percentages.…

  • An app to help you chose what movie to watch with friends

    An app to help you chose what movie to watch with friends

    I love movies, and most of my friends do as well, so when we are having a movie night, it always takes forever to chose a movie. It always goes like this: John: Shall we watch Star Wars.Sally: Nah, I’ve seen it a million times.Roger: What about 2001: Space Odyssey.Jess: Oh, I’ve seen it, but…

  • A odd numbering system I invented when I was a kid

    A odd numbering system I invented when I was a kid

    When I was a kid, my dad and I had a (friendly) argument. I said that digital displays were better and I wanted them everywhere, for example, as the speedometer of a car. My dad said that dials were better and he made his point: Dials are faster to read and remember and if the…