March 2011
1 post
“This is worth repeating. It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology is not enough. It’s...”
– Steve Jobs on the iPad 2 – 52 Tiger
February 2011
8 posts
ART=WORK · How to Become an Expert →
Lost World's Fairs →
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Webstock2011 Notes →
Crowd-sourced session notes (using Google Docs) from WebStock 2011.
“all recruiters are welcome to submit candidates. The number of candidates you...”
– Careers - Atlassian
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close... →
On Google Chrome’s well thought out tab closing behaviour, with a comparison to Safari.
My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design →
Aza Raskin recounts a personal story about the last gift he received from his father, the late Jef Raskin.
January 2011
25 posts
“Some of the rationale behind Pharen: Abstract out problems and irregularities in...”
– From Introduction to Pharen
Pharen is a “compiler that takes a Lisp-like language and turns it into PHP code.”
“In a conversation years ago, [Steve] Jobs said he was disturbed when he heard...”
– From “Can Apple Find More Hits Without Its Tastemaker?” — NY Times (via Signal vs Noise)
My RSS System / patrickrhone →
Patrick Rhone (curator of Minimal Mac) introduces his scheme for categorizing feeds to help him handle monitoring lots of feeds in order to find good content.
His scheme is simple: folders for an “A-list”, “B-List”, “Friends”, “Other”, and a “Probation” folder for newly added feeds still being evaluated. It is a simple and easy to...
“And then, of course, the second act is about how they become evil despite...”
– On Google, and evil — John August (via Daring Fireball)
“Apple reaches for greatness without apology. Market share and profitability are...”
– Apple And Our Culture, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via Daring Fireball)
HTML is the new HTML5 →
The WHATWG HTML spec can now be considered a “living standard”. It’s more mature than any version of the HTML specification to date, so it made no sense for us to keep referring to it as merely a draft.
Like most web applications, the WHATWG’s HTML specification is now “versionless” and will be continuously maintained. From the FAQ:
…new...
“Bad fits make us curmudgeonly. We loathe what we have because it’s not quite...”
– Frank Chimero - Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In
R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts -... →
Nonetheless, starting in about 1991, they worked on R full time. “We were pretty much inseparable for five or six years,” Mr. Gentleman said. “One person would do the typing and one person would do the thinking.”
Interestingly, the above quote seems to indicate that R is a child of pair programming.
“If you ever have to say ‘lighten up’ to someone, you’ve failed...”
– Seth’s Blog: Self-destructive instructions
“Imagine a new restaurant that wants to make the most of their burgeoning lunch...”
– Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms via Daring Fireball
Alex Payne on how choosing a cross-platform solution over a native solution is often a matter of putting the expediency of the business ahead of the experience of your customers.
Cross-platform solutions...
What if Flickr fails? →
And the greater risk is not of Flickr’s deletion of customers, but of the market’s deletion of Flickr. Because, after all, Flickr is a business and no business lasts forever. Least of all in the tech world.
How sustainable are web companies? At what point do we stop trusting and start worrying? Perhaps the closest analogue to web services in the pre-internet world are banks and other...
"Today you.... tomorrow me."
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… a family that is undoubtedly poorer than you, me, and just about everyone else on that stretch of road, working on a seasonal basis where time is money, took an hour or two out of their day to help some strange dude on the side of the road when people in tow trucks were just passing me by. Wow…
via kottke
blog at izs.me: An Open Letter to JavaScript... →
izs:
I got this email last night from Sean Silva: I was browsing the code for your npm.js project (this file in particular: https://github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/npm.js), and noticed you using a style where you line up your commas under the ‘r’ of your var statements, and under your [ and {…
2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript /by... →
Node.js is not the first platform to have a good asynchronous story, it’s just the first platform that many people care to use that has a good asynchronous story. And it’s not so much about the asynchronous part as it is about a good, compelling story. Rhino’s story is “we’re JavaScript only in Java” and SpiderMonkey’s story is “we’re not Rhino”.
Node definitely has a compelling story. It...
Coding blind →
Vivek Haldar on programming as a craft.
Due to high quality open source, it’s easy to see the final output of world-class programmers. Just download the source, and start reading it. But what about the nuts and bolts, the mechanics? You can’t see the seemingly insignificant things that you have to repeat a thousand times over to get to clean and working code.
This phenomenon is somewhat...
Making Too Much of TDD →
Insightful post from Michael Feathers on the history and limitations of TDD.
The thing that fascinates me the most these days is where TDD and refactoring fall apart. I’m most concerned with the “you can’t easily get there from here” problem. In a nutshell, it seems that incremental development of a design works fine until you confront stories which force you to change...
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“At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on...”
– Scott Chacon | The Geek Talk
January 2010
9 posts
