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This is far too geeky and cool not to link to. Peter Steinberger has cleverly used an iOS 7 jailbreak loophole to see the view hierarchies of other iOS applications. He explains why: Why? Because it’s fun, and it can inspire you to solve things differently. Studying the view hierarchy of complex apps can be…

Wil Shipley, in a story about porting Doom to NeXT, describes John Carmack’s code: Don’t take this to mean his code was spaghetti—it was actually some of the easiest-to-understand code I’ve ever worked with. It has an almost indescribable quality of "obviousness." Like, you know when a really good teacher explains something, it seems obvious?…

Or, at least according to John Gruber many don’t. There’s a nihilistic streak in tech journalism that I just don’t see in other fields. Sports, movies, cars, wristwatches, cameras, food — writers who cover these fields tend to celebrate, to relish, the best their fields have to offer. Technology, on the other hand, seems to…

If you could have anything (whether or not it actually exists does not matter) what would it be? Dustin Curtis wrote up some of the things he’d like and a few of them are great. Such as, a device that would detect cancer, a pill that would limit caloric intake daily, and an always on,…

The war for our attention rages on. Allow me to propose a timeline for how Instagram Direct, a feature inside of Instagram 5.0 that allows users to share photos with one or many people rather than with all of Instagram, more than likely came to be: Snapchat becomes a leading photo-sharing service. Snapchat turns down…

This Tumblog is making the rounds; After iOS 7 icons. Essentially it is a gallery of app icons showing what they looked like before and after their iOS 7 updates. I know many have said that the aesthetic of iOS 7 is stripping the personality of apps and they may be right. But I think what…

Jessica Lessin, ex-WSJ reporter, has launched The Information after collaboratively reporting via her own WordPress-powered personal blog for several months. Why? She writes. Technology news needs a reboot. There are more stories and outlets than ever, but a troubling cycle is playing out: The race for pageviews and ad dollars is causing publications to focus on quantity over…

It seems a few restaurant chains have begun using tablets instead of waiters for ordering your drinks and food and for accepting your payment. Ben Brooks: I am all for this, in fact I would pay more to not have to interact with servers — instead getting a tablet. In our team chat some of…

Chris Gonzales answers Shawn Blanc’s question about working remotely on Twitter in longform on his blog. I’m glad he did. The funny thing I’ve noticed is that it seems like each pro is also its own con. I worked at home, both remotely and for myself, for about 10 years of my career. Gonzales hits…

Chris Lema is writing about generosity every day on his blog for all of December. He’s half way through the first week. Here is a quick recap of what he’s covered so far. The Opposite of Generosity: We just don’t always feel rich. And I get that. Bills come in. We have to choose which…

It has been a pleasure to follow Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere as they attempt to complete "the longest unsupported polar journey in history". Here’s Ben, remarking on Day 31 of their journey: I think I’ve said this on a previous expedition, but out here I’m acutely conscious of my own heat, and of having to…

App.net, the Twitter-clone turned app services turned file sharing turned something only a developer can understand…. now has released something that should be a huge hit. They call it Broadcast. In the announcement post Dalton Caldwell explains what a Broadcast is: A Broadcast is a new type of message that is always received as a push notification.…

The experience that Jay Huang had happens far, far too often. It happened to me at two companies. It is absolutely ludicrous. I mean everyone was leaving after 8 hours a day, and sometimes I would work a bit longer than everyone else, but that’s okay, because it’s on my own will and it’s usually…

DistroKid allows anyone to quickly upload a music track to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Amazon. First track is free, just $19.99 per year thereafter. This seems like a steal of a deal. If Philip Kaplan can get the word out about this then I think it will be a huge success and (more than…

I’m not a great programmer. In fact, at this point in my career I wouldn’t advise paying me to write any complex code. But I’m an excellent hacker. I love to chip away at things with my limited programming knowledge and get something working. I wrote the working prototype for Barley. Which Jeff immediately threw…

Or, at least it shouldn’t. And it is becoming less and less critical which platform you invest in. In a fair review of the iPhone 5S from Andrew Kim whom, as always, pours over the device and provides a great and visual review, I liked this bit best about picking one platform over another. We seem…

For the last few months our team at Plain has been using Editorially to collaborate on blog posts, newsletters, magazine columns, interviews and much more. Now, we can’t live without it. Editorially is a Markdown editor; which means a simple text-based markup language that allows you to add just enough emphasis and style to your…

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here’s one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called "What I am reading today". Here are a few of his recent lists. August 20th, 2013

Like Pamela Fox, speaking at conferences and meet ups has generally been part of my job description to help spread the word about the product or company that I’m working for. But also like Pamela I never really stopped to think about why I speak and whether or not I get anything out of it.…

Two months ago to-the-day I wrote about turning off Push Notifications on my phone, tablet and laptop. In this area I’m still doing really, really well. I recommend this for anyone. I still do not have any applications that send me any notifications. Only if my wife calls me does my phone even ring. And when…

Marco Arment finishes Lockdown, his piece on the war Facebook started and its latest casualty Google Reader, this way: We need to keep pushing forward without them, and do what we’ve always done before: route around the obstructions and maintain what’s great about the web. Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to…

Late last week we started looking to fill two positions at Plain and wrote a blog post explaining what we were looking for, who would be eligible, and how to apply. We’ve gotten some great responses so far from people all over the world; Europe, South America, and the rural US. It’s great. Exactly what we…

Marco Arment paints a picture full of opportunity in what Apple has done with iOS 7. I appreciate that he kept his opinion of whether or not he liked the design of iOS 7 to himself and rather decided to focus on the opportunity this big of a change creates. This big of an opportunity…

Jason Santa Maria, on a great piece on his not-updated-often-enough blog, on innovation: What people sometimes mean when they say innovation is actually iteration—continually building on good thinking and assumptions, then, most importantly, believing in the equity of those decisions enough to keep revising upon them. That is Barley.  The next logical step. Not an innovation…

I remember the first time I ran WordPress on my local computer. It was amazing. Within a few moments I was up and running with just a bit of PHP that could power hundreds of blog posts. Before I was using b2 (the name WordPress sort of had before that project became WordPress) I was copying and pasting HTML…

Last year I linked to Inc.’s article about Dublin’s apparent growth in successful start-ups, investments, and the general tech scene. In contrast to that post is Patrick Collison’s post from October of last year showing the challenges that start-ups face in Ireland. The interesting question is probably “how hard is to start a successful start-up in Ireland compared to…

Jason Schuller on Promising Solutions for Simple Websites and Blogs about our just-launched first product Barley: Barley is already beautifully branded and is dubbing itself as a “this-generation content editor” which I have actually bought into just from the teaser. From what I’ve read, it will be a hosted solution geared toward non-technical people (in other words, an…

From Dark Sky Company, the guys behind the relatively new web app Forecast,  comes a great post about how web applications can perform as well as native applications: Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based games, for example, or apps that access hardware capabilities that are not yet exposed to the browser (a shrinking list); but I don’t…