Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away 9 min read · Sep 9, 2014 -- I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so
How Apple’s under-the-radar design genius, Jonathan Ive, has found the way to our hearts. I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus, in a plain Dodger-blue T-shirt and white painter’s pa
S o my brother comes home the other day,” Taylor Swift says, “and he goes, ‘Oh, my God – I just saw a guy walking down the street with a cat on his head.'” As an ardent fan of ready-made metaphors, as
I had been writing software for less than a year when Apple introduced Automated Reference Counting (ARC) in iOS 4. Even in that short span of months I had struggled often enough with manual memory management (retain/release) that I immediately grasped the significance of ARC. I’ll never forget the…
The biggest misconception engineers have when thinking about moving into management is they think it’s a promotion. Management is not a promotion. It is a career change. If you want to do your leaders
The reason I don’t like social media is that it takes two things that are polar opposites and duct tapes them together. Your own utility – to save links, to write text, to move files or materials, to
About Projects w Opinion Talks August 23, 2014 Tweet Tweet As I sit in my apartment right now, I’m assuming what is effectively the entirety of the technology industry is managing the task rabbits pac
To get a good perspective on our clients and their users, we start our projects with research . We go mobile first because it naturally gives prioritization , and we want all the content first so we c
Photo: Marvin Orellana/New York Magazine Not so long ago, Silicon Valley was filled with magic. For years after Steve Jobs described the original iPhone as a “revolutionary and magical product,” a ras
From the outside looking in, a lot of people assume that Apple doesn't have internal deadlines for its products. If Apple did set a ship date, for example, we'd all know when the Apple Watch is going
There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him. Published in Matter · 33 min read ·
Story: Sam Hockley-Smith Photos: Jeremy Kanne, Phil Provencio, & Tomasz Werner PAX East descends on the Boston Convention Center yearly, cramming every corner with video games, card games, tabletop ga
Updated, 09/08/14 Facebook’s News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few user
How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here’s one way to fix it. Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jun 19, 2014 -- I love indie games, and follow the indie g
Tweaks that can make reviews a bit smoother 5 min read · Jun 9, 2014 -- Review prompts are notoriously controversial, but I consider them necessary, given how Apple rewards apps with lots of good revi
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An LLC is an abbreviation for Limited Liability Company. An LLC is a separate entity from its owner or proprietor, and is considered a type of corporation. LLCs are the most popular organizational str
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peter vidani tumblr Peter Vidani is lead designer at Tumblr, which means he has his hands on everything from the dashboard icons to overall design aesthetic of the site. He's also a very active user,
Timing is the difference between hitting and missing. Winning and losing. In technology, timing is the difference between products that dent universes and those that languish in return bins. Between f
Sketch’s codebase is large and many parts of it are quite a few years old, written for simpler times and lower demands. The first parts of the app were written in the time of Mac OS 10.3, when Bindings were the new hotness, and the modern runtime was far away. CoreData dit not exist and nor did…
Published in GV Library · 5 min read · Apr 15, 2013 -- When a product is close to launch, I become a perfectionist. Each misaligned element or awkward interaction is like a thorn in my side. There’ll
When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said "Facebook me." In the following days, even a passing meeting guaranteed that a friend request would pop up the next time I log
Anthony Rose is co-founder and CTO of zeebox , the social network for TV. So, you have a mobile app where there are more pages or sections than can fit on a mobile screen at once. Your first thought m
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