May 2012
5 posts
2 tags
“there is an essential set of skills that intersect both with writing words and...”
– Michael Lopp
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“Isn’t that better than an app that you completely figure out in five minutes and...”
– Andy Ihhatko
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“A good carpenter can drive in a nail with either a rock or a hammer, but how...”
– Eevee
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change rests on the wind gathering momentum
- Caroline Skanne
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“Technology creates our needs faster than it satisfies them.”
– Kevin Kelly
April 2012
5 posts
1 tag
Cargo-Bot
“The first game programmed entirely on iPad” http://mykl.us/IiyxUG
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Codea
“Codea for iPad lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer.” http://mykl.us/IiyxEm
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“What’s remarkable about Apple’s revenue and profit growth is that it’s happened...”
– John Gruber
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Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement
“The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others, they could...
4 tags
seriously considering two divergent — or parallel? — trajectories.
March 2012
4 posts
3 tags
the power of Keynote →
“There exists a world outside of the Adobe Creative Suite. And it’s called Keynote.” - Paul Woods
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“I’ll never file a software patent again, and I urge you to do the same.”
– Andy Baio
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“If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it’s new you are...”
– Jonathan Ive
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Who Gets the Mobile Money? →
crumbs for developers?
February 2012
14 posts
3 tags
for almost the entirety of human history, childhood was a life threatening condition.
1 tag
Gatekeeper Slams the Door on Mac Malware Epidemics
“It’s a major new advance in operating system security designed to reduce dramatically the ability of an attacker to trick users into installing malicious software. It could be the key to preventing a future malware epidemic.” Rich Mogull - 16 February 2012 - TidBITS http://mykl.us/znGpDb
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“This vast space can’t be supervised.”
–
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“Good software makers are also joyous software eaters.”
– Dave Winer
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Microsoft's Biggest Miss
“…was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done. Or anything done, really. And that will be what ultimately kills them.” - Minimal Mac http://mykl.us/y90q3Q
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spiraling around the germ of an idea, some years old now; like a comet, sometimes nearer, then sometimes away.
5 tags
“You can build higher structures when you don’t use up all the complexity...”
– Dave Winer paraphrased
#quote
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GitHub
“Social Coding … Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs and more Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git...
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Compass Documentation
“an open-source CSS Authoring Framework” http://mykl.us/woqjrO
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android
“The fragmentation of Android is very real and very problematic for end users, developers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Google. However fragmentation does not mean Android is going to ‘die’ or ‘fail’ as some seem to think. On the contrary I think we can count on Android playing a significant role in our world for a long, long time. I also am confident...
MacMiniColo
the original mac mini colocation service “place your Mac mini in a high-end data center where you can use it as a server” http://mykl.us/AqADpZ
ObjectiveSee
“Interviews with Apple iOS and Mac developers” http://mykl.us/xZHgLQ
Sublime Text
“a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose.” http://mykl.us/zt3bXp
5 tags
Bootstrap, from Twitter
“a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.” http://mykl.us/wn983S
January 2012
8 posts
4 tags
“We are moving to a period where it will be considered intrusive and unwelcome if...”
– Keith Teare
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“A tool is a trick I use twice.”
– Sanjoy Mahajan
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“It’d be a shame if the mobile software industry devolved into some horrific...”
– David Barnard
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“If you want to enter the future you don’t put on the brakes, you press down on...”
– Bob Lefsetz
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“Do what is needed in a straight line, quietly.”
– Anne Herbert
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WatchTime to RGB color-based clock from Norse By Norsewest
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“I am convinced that there will come a time when the web will take over and no...”
– Dom Leca
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noting and bookmarking, calculating and plotting, breathing in the horizon.
#code
December 2011
26 posts
5 tags
Extra information distracts you from focusing on the few simple aspects of a problem that matter most.
— Matt Ridley paraphrasing Gerd Gigerenzer
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“If your plan will only succeed if there is no turbulence at any time, it’s...”
– Seth Godin
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i’ve put aside all my old charts and itineraries, to contemplate and plot a new course forward.
The Icon Handbook →
“I’ve set out to create the manual, reference guide and coffee table book that I always desired.” - Jon Hicks - HicksDesign
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“Fear of Apple is about losing control over the software on our computers. Fear...”
– John Gruber
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phrase of the day:
“best of both worlds”
(not optimized for either)
- Jean-Louis Gassée
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“Human advancement results from engagement with others. The sharing of ideas....”
– Jeff Miller
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"What can be asserted without evidence can also be... →
- Christopher Hitchens #quote
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“sometimes, good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe
The once and future WebOS →
Robert X. Cringely - 15 December 2011
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Please Let This Not Be The Future Of Reading On... →
“As advertising clickthrough rates continue to drop, the ads become more desperate and invasive, and readers are starting to notice and do something about it. I’m doing the majority of my reading in RSS and Instapaper where I can read in peace without being pummeled by distractions…. It’s time for publishers to think different.”
- Rian van der Merwe
BBEdit →
“Powerful text & HTML editor” - MacUpdate - 1/2
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“I think instead that we’ll see a more tangled future. Native apps will use HTML,...”
– Brent Simmons