“…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 = …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
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 Now today, Apple announces: Mac is obsolete.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 …
“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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