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Strongbox and Aaron Swartz : The New Yorker
Strongbox and Aaron Swartz : The New Yorker: Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box. His achievements were real and varied,...
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Hosting a Mac mini as a Jenkins continuous integration server
Macminicolo – Hosting a Mac mini as a Jenkins continuous integration server: A good development workflow is critical to producing a high-quality app, especially if there is more than one developer...
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At WordPress, Happiness is Automattic | Unencumbered by Facts
At WordPress, Happiness is Automattic | Unencumbered by Facts: Now that I have worked on this team for a while, I have come to realize it is anything but silly or cute; in fact, it’s quite brilliant....
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Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface | MIT Technology Review
Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface | MIT Technology Review: “What could be more natural than staring at something to select it, nodding to approve something?… For privacy, you’ll be able to use...
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Frank Chimero × Blog × Generosity of Perspective
Frank Chimero × Blog × Generosity of Perspective: Designers are usually the most aware of the problems in their work, and I can imagine a bunch of them in Cupertino reading Twitter during the keynote...
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iOS 7′s design language
iOS 7′s design language: I wouldn’t claim that iOS 7’s design language is bolder than WP8’s, but it’s certainly a radical break from the past. Which is why Mike Rundle is completely wrong to say it’s...
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Scripting News: The quiet war in tech.
Scripting News: The quiet war in tech.: I said a while back that if you want to understand politics you have to become deeply immersed in tech. The political reporters and bloggers have been totally...
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Real
Real: The emphasis on text is also striking. More than just content, text has replaced iconography in many cases. Look at Camera: the modes — VIDEO, PHOTO, SQUARE, PANO — are represented by text for...
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Adactio: Journal—Battle for the planet of the APIs
Adactio: Journal—Battle for the planet of the APIs: If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data? [I think that says it all...]
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A customer experience issue you can’t avoid any longer: the PXA
A customer experience issue you can’t avoid any longer: the PXA: Any product that shares data needs will engage this issue sooner or later. And it may seem like a lot to handle, for the executives and...
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Lockdown
Lockdown: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it’s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new...
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Solving problems sometimes requires work.
Solving problems sometimes requires work.: Biz Stone said something very clearly and concisely that defines the way tech is funded these days. He says if he can’t figure out an app in a minute, he...
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Devices are vertical, services are horizontal
ē Services, not Devices: The crux of the problem is in that second paragraph: no one is asking Microsoft to design its “customer interaction” to “reflect one company.” Customers are asking Microsoft to...
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Getting kicks at 66
Getting kicks at 66: Funny, a few months back my 16-year old son asked what the point of “range” was with radio. He’s a digital native who is used to being zero distance from everybody else on the Net,...
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It’s 2013. Why are we still in login hell?
It’s 2013. Why are we still in login hell?: The sites are the servers, and our browsers are the clients, suckling the servers’ teats for the milk of “content” and cookies to keep track of us. This...
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DNA as Information Storage
A New Approach to Information Storage | August 2013 | Communications of the ACM: In Church’s case, a team of researchers used sequencing technology to format his 54,000-word book (with words, images,...
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The danger that all reporters now face
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger | Comment is free | The Guardian: During one of these meetings I asked directly whether the government would move...
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Animation pain
Along For The Ride: These animations in iOS 7 feel like its designers are showing off their cool new abilities, and we’re just along for the ride. After sitting through all of these, day after day,...
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What the next CEO of MS might say
What the next CEO of MS might say: Here’s the deal. As a company, we’re in a bit of a pickle. Because of policies and decisions that made sense in 1995 being clung to as though we were carved in stone,...
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Worse is human
Worse is human: My pocket psychology take is that we love anachronisms because they’re imperfect. Like humans are imperfect. We form relationships with people who are flawed all the time. Flaws,...
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