Charlie Stross recently wrote up a much-mentioned article which is nominally about why Steve Jobs hates Flash, but actually about what he believes to be Apple’s overall long-term strategy. In it he predicts the death of the Mac and OS X as we know it. When I read the article, I tweeted: Indie Mac devs, [...]
Category Archives: Programming
The Illustrated History of QLab, Personal Milestone Edition
February 19, 2010 – 12:36 pm
Or: “Holy Frijoles. Five years?” Or: “So THAT just happened.” Or: “In a few hours the circle closes and I am going to yell about it from my little rooftop because although it ain’t really all that huge — wow it sure feels huge to me.” Warning: personal story ahead. And yeah, it’s kind of [...]
To 32
February 2, 2010 – 12:01 pm
Brian Howard. Some folks affect you disproportionately. Brian has been one of those. I’m not sure exactly how to describe it. It’s probably silly for me to pull the word “hero” into the description, but I’m not sure I can really avoid the word either. Little things can confer that status on a young mind, [...]
The Leap
April 7, 2008 – 2:28 pm
I started my own company back in 2006. The company, Figure 53, LLC, has been a labor of love since long before it was officially formed. Scraping together a few hours each night, and cramming 20 hours into the weekends, I slowly managed to make a product and…holy hell…even managed to sell a few copies. [...]
Steal this idea: iPhone Pedometer
March 7, 2008 – 10:59 pm
An idea I don’t have time to pursue right now: The new iPhone SDK, which gives developers access to the accelerometer, should make it easy to write up a little iPhone pedometer application. Just tell the app your stride length, turn it on, slide the iPhone in your pocket, and away you go. A friendly [...]