I've worked on personal projects where I went badly off track and didn't realize it until much later. What I needed was someone to nudge me in the right direction, someone to objectively point out the
I recently had a good reason to look through my blog archive for a handful of articles that were very good, relatively timeless, interesting to a broad audience, and G-rated that didn’t include any re
Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman , would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she d
Today, half of U.S. residents are single, and a third of all households have one occupant. Illustration by Jean-François Martin As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year se
Design Personas If your website were a person, who would it be? Is it serious, buttoned-up, all business, yet trustworthy, and capable? Is it a wisecracking buddy that makes even mundane tasks fun? Fo
On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex FRANK TALK Abby Sun, left, and Samantha Meier, organizers of Sex Week at Harvard, which aimed to go beyond the usual health-centered education. Credit...
They gather under the tall Jon Stewart. They gather under the Jon Stewart who takes up the whole side of a building on Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan and is about three stories high. They gather under t
What is Apple at heart: a software company, or a hardware company? This is a perennial question. The truth, of course, is that Apple is neither. Apple is an experience company. That they create both h
March 2012 I'm not a very good speaker. I say "um" a lot. Sometimes I haveto pause when I lose my train of thought. I wish I were a betterspeaker. But I don't wish I were a better speaker like I wish
I'm reading Do More Faster , which is more than a bit of an advertisement for the TechStars start-up incubator, but it's a good read nonetheless. What struck me is that several of the people who went
I wish I could entirely blame my computer science degree for undermining my sense of aesthetics, but I can't. Much of it was self-inflicted from being too immersed in programming and technology for it
While browsing my Application folder on my Mac, I noticed something. I have a fondness for some apps that I rarely use. I’m just glad that I own them. I may not use them all but I feel good about the
Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Max . I'm a designer from Chicago. I work for political campaigns and non-profits. I also make Humans vs. Zombies and Cards Against Humanity . What hardware
Just One More Game ... Credit... Illustrations by Aled Lewis See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Easter
Many people continue misinterpreting what Craig Hockenberry, myself, and other developers have been trying to convey. Here’s another stab at it: We’re not complaining at the existence of $0.99 apps. W
Posted on April 3, 2012 Recently in IncrediBooth , I greatly decreased the size of the IPA we send to Apple. We were around 70MB before everything and ended up at 31MB. It was honestly really easy to
File used in Usenet groups to hide people or subjects A kill file (also killfile , bozo bin or twit list ) is a file used by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some unwanted pat
Thanks to the new iPad’s Retina display, it’s possible that you need to update your website’s custom Web clip icon. The icon size for the new iPad’s Home screen is 144×144 pixels. Up until last week m
A nice short piece from Sebastiaan de With’s new blog about UI design in iOS. Sebaastian writes: Clear is a great example of this: for me, it was a delight to figure it out, but one of my older family
I am not intentionally a business person. Over the course of my career to date I’ve worked at companies of various sizes, and have been situated at commensurately varying distances from the concerns o
The Weight We had been on a long journey but it was lost in the bits. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It's right there. With this visio
There's no magic bullet for hiring programmers. But I can share advice on a few techniques that I've seen work, that I've written about here and personally tried out over the years. 1. First, pass a f
Building up a portfolio (a collection of your work) is essential. Many employers will require it before they consider you for a job. Take the time you need to produce something that will impress them-
I’m Jim Dovey, and I’m the chief architect on the iOS team at Kobo in Toronto, Canada. I’m also a Brit.
I drifted into computer programming properly about 14 years ago, after a few years attempting to make my way as a professional musician. During my youth in the 80’s and 90’s, my father taught…
I love Apple products and the Apple mindset in general. I devour Apple-centric content and I live in the Apple ecosystem. I can sum up my love for Apple with six words: their products dramatically improve my life. (Fun game: try that sentence with any company, and see if it rings true.) But nobody’s…
The new, hotly anticipated, Sparrow Mail app for iOS has been approved and is now making its way through the App Store . Our review is live here right now , but we wanted to start out our coverage wit
March 8, 2012 A Retina Display Reckoning for Magazine Publishers Brad Frost recently noted the impending arrival of the iPad Retina display could “ wreak havoc on the Web ,” owing to mammoth image fil
Sean Sperte Design & Leadership Currently… Building Passbook Since October 2017 “Sean is one of the most thoughtful visionaries I've ever met. He has the magic gift of seeing things that no one else c
If you don’t think about it too much, you might think that deflation increases demand. After all, if things are cheaper, you’re more likely to spend money. The problem is that people are aware of defl
dom leca In the past two years, Mac users got a great desktop email client alternative in the form of Sparrow , an elegant app with a unified inbox, full range of keyboard commands, Gmail labels, mult
March 14, 2012 iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures Back in 1998, websites would often force visitors to aimlessly move their mouse around, trying to reveal hidden icons or pieces of text that would explain
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