Being a Design-Driven Culture
Cap Watkins from Etsy says it isn't all about look-and-feel: Being design-driven means treating design as a partner (and a leader) in the product creation process. Look at your feature roadmap right…
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You Just Have To Do Something
Jonathan Moore recounts the day he saved his son's life, then makes this point: When we are presented with moments of crisis, large decisions or new opportunities often we find ourselves crippled…
Mario using only CSS
My friend Chris Coleman took the time, as CSS geeks tend to do, to create Mario using only CSS.
Disconnected Saturdays
Buster Benson disconnects on Saturdays. I do something similar every Tuesday night. Doing it for an entire day would be interesting though.
Flickr’s new EXIF widget
Sorry, I don't like the word widget either. But, credit where due, Flickr has a new way to display EXIF information. Check out the sidebar of this photo. I like it. Hey,…
MG Siegler on the Surface
MG Siegler reviews the Surface for AOL TechCrunch: After using it for over a week now, it’s hard to come up with a lot of nice things to say about the Surface….
The usability of Windows 8
Jakob Nielsen: The UI is littered withswipe ambiguity, where similar (or identical) gestures have different outcomes depending on subtle details in how they're activated or executed. For example, start swiping from the…
The drain of technology on technology professionals
Stephen Hackett, who is giving up his iPhone for a feature-phone for a year in an attempt to bring some balance to his digital life: I think there is a sizable percentage…
A short Microsoft Surface review
Me, in June: Actual judgements about the hardware aside (since, unsurprisingly, these aren’t yet on the market) this looks like the best work to come out of Microsoft since the Xbox 360….
Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web
The Oatmeal at his best. /via Everyone.
Soundslice
Soundslice: Soundslice lets you sync tabs with video so you can see (and hear!) them in real time. Gone are the days of ASCII art approximations. I don't play guitar but I…
App.net’s new API feature: Stream Marker
App.net has a new API feature called Stream Marker.Dalton Caldwell: Multiple times a day, I switch between my laptop and my phone. It’s frustrating that I have to ask myself “have I…
Apple’s Blue Sky
Stan Schroeder for Mashable: Apple has launched an initiative called “Blue Sky,” which encourages employees to devote some of their time to personal pet projects. I hope this is true. And I have…
Free up CPU by removing video files from your Mac’s desktop
Good tip from Rob LeFebvre on Cult of Mac: You might notice that your hard disk is constantly spinning on your Mac. If you check Activity Monitor, you might find out that…
The Incident: The Music
Cabel Sasser is one talented dude. Side note: Perfect use of Soundcloud.
Travel Channel makes fake commercial using Bourdain footage and audio
Anthony Bourdain, who has it in his contract with Travel Channel that he must explicitly approve all uses of his name/face, etc: So it came as a shock and a disappointment to…
George Steinmetz Aerial Photography
PDN: Steinmetz photographs from a motorized paraglider which he describes as a “flying lawn chair”. Using the slowest and quietest powered aircraft in the world, he is not only able to take…
The four seasons of your Startup
Wayne Barz: I spend a lot of time with start up companies. To be specific, I spend more time with start up companies than I spend with my wife. That is…
Would Apple ever bring back Forstall?
Michael Lopp: In my years at Apple, the Caffe Macs chatter about Forstall was that he was the only legit successor to Jobs because he displayed a variety of Jobsian characteristics. Comparing…
Follow me on Instagram. Or, why web profiles are a big deal for Instagram.
Instagram recently released web profiles for all users. Of course, your Twitter stream has probably been full of people linking to theirs recently*. Oh, here is mine. You may have seen so…
Life is death is life
Rohan Anderson: So after breakfast we all ventured out to the front yard to say hello and goodbye to the birds. The girls loved the soft feathers and the sounds they made,…
Watercooler 1.0
Watercooler 1.0 is a Twitter and App.net client byTroy Gaul. It looks interesting but I might wait for 1.1 based on the reviews before I pick up a copy. /via John Gruber.
Anthony Bourdain on the best and worst of No Reservations
This Monday marks the 140th and final episode of No Reservations to air on Travel Channel. On the one hand, I'm sad to see what is easily one of my most favorite…
Siri vs. Google Voice Search
Gizmodo did a side-by-side comparison of Google's new Voice Search app on iPhone and Siri. Google wins every single time. I've been using Google a bit on my iPhone 5 over the…
Global satellite view of Hurricane Sandy
From space Sandy didn't look like much more than a few clouds. But, she was much more than that. /via Jason Kottke who still does not have power 4 days after Sandy…
Hueless 2.0
My favorite iPhone application for shooting black and white photos, Hueless by Curious Satellite, just got a massive update. Even though the update would be worth paying for again it is available…
iOS 6.0.1
Though iOS 6.0.1 is a .x.x release it actually has a fair number of bug fixes. Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air Fixes…
John Gruber on the iPad mini
John Gruber on the iPad mini: It’s really light and easy to hold one-handed. The hardware design — chamfered edges, less tapered back, metal rather than plastic buttons — strikes me as…
Michael Heilemann on the Disney / Lucas deal
Heilemann, who has been writing about Star Wars for years and is a self-proclaimed Star Wars historian, jotted down his thoughts on the deal and he agrees with me: On second glance,…
Shawn Blanc on John Gruber’s iPad mini review
Turns out Shawn noticed the very same things that I did.