MG Siegler, last week at TechCrunch : During his keynote address on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs notedthat while Apple may not be the first to release features, they doso in a way that’s the best impl

I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my au

I’ve blogged before about my dissatisfaction with news sources (eg, 1 , 2 ), and earlier in the year I realised that one of the major problems online was delivery of text-based news. There was no onli

WWDC has always been unique for having dual identities: developer conference and consumer event. Attendees seek technical knowledge that’s not applicable to most people, while the keynote announcement

Speaking of Joe Wilcox, in the midst of a 1,500 word piece last week accusing yours truly of “not being a man” because there aren’t comments on Daring Fireball, Wilcox wrote the following in response

Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast June 4th, 2010 About a month ago or so, Amy and I release a little (literally, it’s about 5k) HTML5 iPad App for looking up time zones. I don’t mean se

As a freelance software engineer, I very frequently need to take a client’s specifications or requirements, and design a new piece of software (whether it’s a component or a full application) to meet

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That experience taught me a lot about what really matters in programming. It is not about solving puzzles and being the brightest kid in the class. It is about realizing that the complexity of softwar

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I’m a Mac developer for a living, so I’m going to be predisposed to familiarity with Apple environments. The Nexus One hardware was supplied at no charge by Google. I will try to remember to disclose biases and other affiliations in the text. Please send polite corrections or clarifications to…

I’m a Mac and iPhone developer and I’ve just spent the past week using a Google Nexus One as my primary cell phone rather than an iPhone as I have for the past three years. I wanted to do this to become more acquainted with what Google has to offer since my only exposure to Android has been a few…

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from the

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Perceptions of the web are changing. People are advocating that we treat the web like another application framework. An open, cross-platform, multi-device rival to Flash and Cocoa and everything else.

I can either be a guy who writes novels, or I can be a guy who answers email. Realizing I cannot be both, I’ve made the decision, and now I live with it.

May 21, 2010 Numeric Keypads To this day we’re stuck with two numpad layouts that are incredibly similar, but just different enough to slow you down when you switch between them. It’s really hard to p

May 25, 2010 Gestures Way back when, computers used to only have command line interfaces. To get a PC to do anything at all, people had to memorize commands, and type them in correctly. But forcing pe

Our flagship app, iTeleport, is priced at $25 on the App Store, and our sales data shows that it’s earned more than $1,000 a day. How did we get here? The App Store has been out for almost two years now. There are almost 200k apps and over 38k developers (source). As the store has grown, one of the…

Until recently, I’d never been to IKEA, mostly because of fear. I knew there would be things I wanted, but the IKEA reputation kept me away. What I heard: It’s huge It’s a maze You can’t get out in le

There’s no such thing as the Car or the Shoe or the Laundry Soap. But everyone knows the Pill, whose FDA approval 50 years ago rearranged the furniture of human relations in ways that we’ve argued about ever since.