A fantastic article made the rounds this week discussing the mindset of programmers: A list of what’s broken and needs to be fixed. A list of ways in which I fucked up. … programming builds an acutely negative mindset over time. I’m always asking the question “what’s wrong with this?” Positive…

An app, or not: http://t.co/Hd2ZPyLY — @RogerBlack on @nytimes' new HTML edition for iPad, and more. #newsdesign

In my previous article on sharing in iOS 6 , I hinted at the possibility that Apple was working on a more powerful method to enable sharing between apps without compromising the iOS security architect

It all started with a tweet a couple mornings ago... There is no longer a need to declare ivars in your Objective-C headers. Stop that bad habit now. There is no longer a need to declare ivars in your

happy notes * / august 2012 / i am not busy The not telling people “I am busy” plan. I’ve been working on this plan for a while now. I just added it to my daily Lift habits so I thought I would write

I thought I give you a quick update about the state of podcast sync in Instacast. The current status quo is, that Instacast tries to synchronize its state with other devices via iCloud. We are using a technique known as document storage. Instacast simply saves its state into one single document that…

Don’t worry: this isn’t yet another Getting Things Done love-in. GTD probably works, but it doesn’t work for you (or me). There are plenty of great apps to help you manage your life and your tasks, li

Mountain Lion’s New File System Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders—before reintroducing them with a peculiar restriction: only one level

Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops a

I think this post by @gte does a great job of articulating the cultural sea change app stores have wrought on software: http://t.co/U7A9I1aH

We reflexively instruct our children to always tell the truth. It's even encoded into Boy Scout Law . It's what adults do, isn't it? But do we? Isn't telling the truth too much and too often a bad lif

In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps ( Google Play being the Android version of Apple’s iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes

I hesitate to say everyone should have a child, because becoming a parent is an intensely personal choice. I try my best to avoid evangelizing the experience, but the deeper in I get, the more I belie

I'll assume you've got a set of strongly-held beliefs about software development. This is a safe bet; anyone who writes code has some personal mantras and peeves. Maybe you think that PHP is a broken

A Clean Slate A Clean Slate I recently upgraded to a new MBP at work. Whenever I move to a new machine, I prefer to work off of a completely clean slate. It gives me the opportunity to evaluate what t

a pre-publish checklist Here are a few questions I’ve come up with to try to avoid sounding like YouTube commenter. I’m preaching to myself here, because I find I have violated these far more often th

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