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 Now today, Apple announces: Mac is obsolete.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 …
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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 …
“don’t build technology unless you feel the pain of not having it.”
“Suffering-oriented programming greatly reduces risk by ensuring that you’re always working on something important, and it ensures that you are well-versed in a problem space before attempting a large investment.” – Nathan Marz
Put it off.
“…Yet psychologists and behavioural economists (these charlatans) seem to think that it is a disease that needs to be remedied and cured. And pharmaceutical companies might one day come up with a pill for it. Few understand that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic decision-making.” – by …
Could You Be Fully Entertained with Openly Licensed Creative Work?
The vast majority of my business is tied to open source software. The culture I work in expects it. Being able to read the source code, update as needed (without asking permission), and share freely is part of the business of building software. Yet, in my personal life, the expectation is that entertainment is all …
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A Living
“My goal has never been to dominate the market, my goal has always just been to just make a living.” – Marco Arment
“Don’t just take a collection of your posts.”
“…when you meet someone and they ask for your business card, how cool will it be when you can say, ‘here, take my book instead.’” – James Altucher
Open Loop #7 – Turtle Turtle Turtle
Beer: Jamie – Bakken Bock, Garrick – Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale 2013 (BCJP Style Guidelines – American Barleywine) Sam Adams’ Triple Bock (
Daily Reality Continued
“The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call ‘living in your calendar.’ That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar.” – Daniel Markovitz I’ve been ‘living in my calendar’ for 18 months now – since I …
The Open Web Needs Us
“We need to make it always-easier for people to own and run their own infrastructure. People think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be! Each of us can have the equiv of a printing plant, that’s the magic of tech. No harder to keep running than a laptop. To those people in tech who …