“I don’t care about the past. It can be hidden in a separate view for the rare occasions that I want to look at past items. Yet the past is consuming the majority of the interface.” – Marco Arment “Who wants to see 30 boxes arranged in a grid with tiny text? Who wants to …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Shrug.
“Why bother working all day on a piece if something you throw together in 20 minutes will get the same attention from the world?” – Andrew Phelps What would you tell Atlas to do?
One of My All-Time Favorite Tech Legends
“Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a …
Be Your Own Business Cycle
“…to the extent that Etsy, Kickstarter, and other platforms can disintermediate the labor economy, we should be very grateful. Not only are these platforms beneficial technologies of resistance as Reihan emphasizes, they might be generators of macroeconomic robustness.” – Eli Dourado I encourage you to read the whole thing. I especially found the employment = …
Being Honest with Yourself
“There’s one difference. Mine doesn’t save the page, it just pretends to. And that’s good enough.” – Dan W. on his Instapaper Placebo Reminds me of a fantastic Twitter-esque service I thought of a few years back. It would have a ‘compose tweet’ box just like Twitter and when you clicked ‘Tweet’ the box would …
#titanic { float: none; }
The story of the Titanic’s demise as written in jQuery. In terms of geek humor, this achieves ‘sudo make me a sandwich’ status.
The Return of Fee
“For example: I’d like to see a start up set out to become the world’s best email service. For $40-$100 a year, customers would have unlimited storage, a powerful (ad free) interface, and rock solid reliability. ” – Drew Breunig
Dogged
“I sometimes think that Silicon Valley is this weird abstract hunting ground where Neo-Victorian aristocrats hunt and kill good ideas for sport, the same way their ancestors would have killed foxes.” – Giles Bowkett
A Much Tastier Sandwich
Remember back when John Gruber called iPhone Web Apps a shit sandwich. And then Apple fanboys dragged Apple into native applications while balkanizing the nacent mobile software world? Have you heard that today, WebKit is so popular other browser vendors are contemplating support -webkit CSS prefixes. Now today, Apple announces: Mac is obsolete. All their …
Why My Software is Ugly
“In the eyes of many customers, ugly equals authentic and credible. Ugly helps you get the task completed quickly without any fuss or distraction. Ugly is going to give you the details. Ugly is not hiding anything. Ugly does not waste your time on surface images and trivial jargon and hype.” – Gerry McGovern Hat-tip …