January 2009
18 posts
“Unlike Facebook which is the drunk sex pest of the internet, Flickr is your smart, humble, heart warming friend. Quiet and brilliant. And Dopplr is similar.”
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Noisy Decent Graphics: My Dopplr Annual Report
Some good comments on default notification options, elegance, and how Dopplr also “gets it right.”
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“This site is optimized for Lynx just because fuck you.
I’m told it also looks nice in graphical browsers.” —Dive into Python 3
I’m told it also looks nice in graphical browsers.” —Dive into Python 3
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“Steve Jobs often came by Texaco Towers after dinner, to see what was new, and we’d usually show him whatever recent progress we made. Sometimes he’d be pissed off about something, but other times he’d be really excited about a new idea.
I was the only one in the office one evening when he burst in, exclaiming that he had a flash of inspiration.
“Mr. Macintosh! We’ve got to have Mr. Macintosh!”
“Who is Mr. Macintosh?”, I wondered.
“Mr. Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh. He pops up every once in a while, when you least expect it, and then winks at you and disappears again. It will be so quick that you won’t be sure if you saw him or not. We’ll plant references in the manuals to the legend of Mr. Macintosh, and no one will know if he’s real or not.”
” —Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Mister Macintosh (via superamit)
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IT’S A TIMEWASTING FIRE HOSE OF INFORMATION.
Do what I do, which is every few hours if you’re at a stopping point or bored or whatever, go to twitter.com in a browser. Scan through the missives from your friends, maybe page back a couple pages to catch up to the last time you checked. If you think of something you need to say, toss it up as a new message.
THEN CLOSE THE BROWSER TAB AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE AND WORK.
” —Matt, what’s your favorite desktop twitter client?
“Here I was at this hip start-up, really feeling cool, but still using the same version control system that uncool companies like, Yahoo! and Sun use. I would not stand for this. As 2007 became 2008 the writing was on the wall, Git was our new bicycle. It had been blessed by Saint Torvalds and clearly we needed to get in on the ground floor of the new cool before it became mainstream.”
—I’m using Git because it makes me feel cool
Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com →
nytimes.com
Architect secretly embeds an ornate series of puzzles inside Manhattan apartment designed for a client’s family.
Beware of future creep →
37signals.com
“Future creep is not about adding features to your products. At least, it is not directly about that. Rather, it is about adding infrastructure to your products in preparation for features that may or may not be added later. In the future.”
