July 2009
84 posts
“My answer to that is that Daring Fireball is decidedly not free. It’s simply a...”
– Gruber on publishing content. Amen.
June 2009
96 posts
working at 37signals →
A great article from one of the newest members at 37signals, Jason Zimdars describes how much he’s enjoyed his new job and the changes that he had to make.
So it has been great to join a company that knows how to work with a widely distributed team. As you might assume, communication is the key to making the team effective and productive.
Why does 37signals do such good work? One main...
Logbook by Transmissions: 37signals companion apps... →
patrickrhone:
Logbook aims to make that even easier by putting a handy way to update the Journal in your Mac OS X menubar. Seems really elegantly designed.
Brought to you from the team at MetaLab. And, as with anything they do, it looks good and does the job.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
The Smashing Pumpkins (4)
U2 (4)
Moby (3)
The Tragically Hip (3)
Point of Grace (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Frequently our lack is not faith but compassion.”
– Richard Foster
“My mum read your blog post and asked ME if I read your blog post. What is this...”
– Michael Mistretta to me in regards to “on disconnecting distraction”.
“Let your side business evolve into a full-time business naturally. Go for...”
– Matt Linderman from 37signals
“Perhaps happiness, like peace or passion, comes most when it isn’t pursued.”
– Pico Iyer
on disconnecting distraction
Just over a year ago, Paul Graham wrote an essay on distractions. He recounts how he had come to the realization that the Internet had become such a big distraction that he now considered it an addiction that affected his work.
This piece struck a chord with me because I’ve been struggling with the same issue for the past several years. As with all issues, the first step is recognizing the...
Tumblr ProTip: Tap the purty pi'tures on iPhone
chartier:
By now you’ve probably seen the redesigned iPhone Dashboard. What you may not have seen is that you can tap image thumbnails in posts to get a larger version. You don’t lose your place and the page doesn’t refresh—some AJAXy sexiness just redraws a larger version of the pic right in-line in the post. Hot.
Even better … they’ve changed more than just the looks. Not only can you...
“It’s years of practice, starting in elementary school where you learned the...”
– Rands
on iTunes
There’s a lot of chatter going round these parts today about how to organize your music library. There are some differences of opinion on just how to do that, but one central theme emerged: iTunes is the piece of software everyone uses to organize and listen to their music. It reminds me of one of my very first blog posts:
iTunes—it’s probably my favorite piece of software. It’s definitely...
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the gateway drug
Gruber hit the nail in the head in his wrap up on WWDC:
This year, the emblematic session was titled “Mac Programming for iPhone Developers”. I’m not even sure what to say about that, other than to confirm that anecdotal evidence suggests that new-to-Apple iPhone developers are indeed very much interested in developing for the Mac now, too.
That last sentence really stuck with me. I’ve...
Fever Really is That Hot - Shawn Blanc →
News on Fever is making the rounds on the internet this morning. My first reaction was excitement because I’ve been looking forward to this for quite a while.
When got my install up and running, my second reaction was to wonder if a lot of features would apply to me. The idea of sparks didn’t seem to fit my reading habits as I don’t subscribe to feeds that I don’t...
Why don't I leave iPhone development?
marco:
I won’t develop for other mobile platforms because I’m not interested in using them. I can’t develop great software for a platform I don’t use.
Marco Arment answers the question many people are asking of him: if the app store process is so bad, why not develop for another platform? I can only assume that this is the same for most iPhone developers.
Snow Leopard, Safari 4 and other miscallaneous... →
2000+ words by your truly on last week’s announcements.
opera unite
As a follow up to yesterday’s post regarding Opera, here is how the company describes their new focus, Opera Unite:
Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use. With Opera...
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ReCSS: reload your CSS →
A great utility in the form of a bookmarklet for reloading the style sheet of the current page but not the page itself. Never wonder if you are dealing with a caching issue again.
[ via Jonathan Christopher ]
jakob nielsen on The Setup →
You only have to read a small portion of his writing to realize that Jakon Nielsen knows what he’s about when it comes to usability. And so I was floored when I discovered on waferbaby’s The Setup that Nielsen is a Windows user.
A usability expert who uses Windows full time … I’m not sure how to take that.
[ via Shawn Blanc ]
is the Facebook username you want available? →
Amen.
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app store angst
Marco, who has been consistently vocal and open about the process for creating and publishing Instapaper for the iPhone, sums up his feelings after a week at WWDC. The good news is that Apple employs human beings. The bad news is that they are strictly controlled and seem to have little influence over the entire App store process.
Marco sums up his feelings well:
As far as we can tell, from...