December 2011
1 post
The future of media is not about geographical restrictions.
– John Gruber
October 2011
2 posts
In a post-Steve-Jobs world, there is no longer an excuse for large corporations...
– Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance, by John Siracusa, in Ars Technica
If your users, with their shiny MyWebBookSauceHubsterVille account, come to...
– Apple, Apps, Appeals, & Appeasement: the Story of Drift via github
August 2011
1 post
God, can you imagine if 5 years ago someone told you that you’d be rooting for...
– Starky on RPS : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/21/modernwarfare3/#comment-606928
April 2011
6 posts
Without your support and participation, all we would have is a bunch of servers...
– http://blog.reddit.com/2011/04/good-news-everyone.html
the “cloud” was still just something that you drew up on a whiteboard as a...
– Bryan Cantrill, VP of Eng @ Joyent.
speaking of Valve :
What Went Right : Steam
Tommy: Steam is amazing. I can’t stress that enough. The ability to quickly update within hours of a bug popping up made the entire PC launch much easier than it could have been if Steam had a different system in place to update code.
Also, Steam listens to its developers. They listened to us when it came to our suggestions for how...
Frustration was the biggest part of retro difficulty and something we felt...
– Team Meat, Super Meat Boy Postmortem on Gamasutra.
Seems like a Valve quote.
March 2011
2 posts
tpdsaa:
Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
1 post
What he doesn’t realize, is that he’s effectively becoming the low-budget...
– What’s Going On With Kevin Smith? on Scriptshadow. (via waxy)
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
The joke of “next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop” is almost as...
– Marco.org: Great since day one.
Another perspective I gained was that decorating your mansion with works of art...
– Steve Yegge. (links added).
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
5 posts
March 2010
8 posts
The phrase ‘I don’t have time for’ should never be said. We all get the same...
– The cult of busy (via marco)
There’s an undeniable sense of ‘being part of something’ that’s fostered by an...
– Getting Real About Office Hours - Metalab
I have learned that anything that has “Enterprise” in its name is so incredibly...
– Whatever happened to programming, redux
Honestly, I love this format so much I wish *more* sites used it. There are so...
– John Gruber on Daring Fireball’s intermingled content format
Microformats are basically mini-laws for marking up your documents.
Hell, go...
– Chris Messina
February 2010
3 posts
Crumblr : Cooking for developers
crumblr-project:
La vie d’un acteur du web qu’il soit professionnel ou amateur éclairé n’est pas une chose facile. Les différents langages, technologies, besoins et envies sont en perpétuels renouvellement et suivre cette évolution n’est pas une chose facile. Le but du projet Crumblr est d’assister à la construction d’une application web dans son ensemble. Ainsi, les notions abordées iront de la...
Of course, the WHAT-WG, being a smaller, invitation-only group of browser...
My mother asked me how the transition was going. I said :
“Imagine you...
– Don Dodge (former-Microsoft-Evangelist-of-something) on switching from a PC to a Mac.
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
a major theme of this decade that has just been: the failure of companies to...
– http://ckck.tumblr.com/post/308476354/the-sound-of-my-head-banging-against-the-wall
November 2009
2 posts
Ev-speak :
Third-party developers have recognized this and built sites to try and track this information. But it’s fundamentally hard because the data isn’t structured.
This last point is not obvious but is particularly important for fulfilling Twitter’s goal of helping you discover the information that matters most to you as quickly as possible.
English :
...
The iPhone/iPod Touch, being available for both Mac and Windows, has a single...
– http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/218293148/a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update
October 2009
1 post
dalasverdugo:
marco:
What’s Google Wave? Will it reduce the number of inboxes I need to deal with in my life or add to them?
I think it’s a product with a lot of promise. Isn’t it cool to be able to embed an actual, live Google Map into your convo with someone?
Beyond that, it’s a communication protocol, not just restricted to text. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
September 2009
1 post
He wanted to work with agencies and design studios who would, rather than simply...
– Pio Schunker - Senior Vice President for Creative Excellence @ The Coca-Cola Company - http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2009/id20090812_141158.htm
July 2009
2 posts
only an industry like ours would find jobs for people with bad business and...
– Jeffrey Zeldman
June 2009
5 posts
from vincentpeone
Friends.
As soon as you call something a project, you give it permission to not be...
– Chad Fowler