“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lotof data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are deciding be
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the business side of Apple Watch development. After recording this week’s Release Notes episode , I wanted to further clarify my thinking on why I don’t thi
Next post Previous post My TextExpander/shell script post of last week reminded me of Doug McIlroy and some unfinished business from back in October. So let’s talk about shell scripts and Unix again.
Tumblr has launched an official app for OS X today, one day after the release of Apple's latest desktop operating system . It's available for free in the Mac App Store right now, and Tumblr wants you
6 min read · Oct 18, 2014 -- Here’s a thought experiment. Okay, ready? Imagine the entire universe. The large-scale structure of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the universe. Try and imagine all 100+
For the past year I’ve presented a talk entitled “Make Them Care” to conferences across the US and Europe . The purpose of the talk is to get developers thinking about how to market and sell their pro
Here’s a question that literally no one has ever asked, ever: “Hey, do you have an opinion about the lens flares in Star Trek?” There’s no need to ask that question, because of course you do. Everyone
My first job in technology was a QA internship. The summer between my freshman and sophomore years, I tested the first release of Paradox for Windows at Borland . As an intern, I started by following
Photo: Jamie Grill Photography/Corbis Living and working in New York City, it’s hard not to be overwhelmed by the financial demands of the city. At 25, I know girls who live in sprawling Manhattan apa
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I program slowly and thoughtfully.
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Before the web, constraints of retail software required rigid, year long schedules. After the web, you could ship code with a few keystrokes. Today, big sites ship several times a day. Then apps made a comeback through mobile, and now we face a clash in process. Web companies want to “move fast and…
Last night, comedian Jerry Seinfeld deadpanned at the CLIOs: “I love advertising because I love lying…” The 55th annual CLIO Awards, the most prestigious international advertising awards, were held in
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus". Watch the full program here: https://youtu.
In his, to my mind, fair defense of Uber , Mark Suster made a very important observation about the reality of business: Let’s put this into perspective. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big t
To Siri, With Love Credit... Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal
I had a great 1-1 with one of my tech leads today, who came by my office hours and asked me for advice on becoming a better manager. I gave my usual rambling reply to broad inquiries; we talked about
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Old Masters at the Top of Their Game After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign. Old Masters After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign. Photographs by ERIK MADIGAN HECK Frederick Wiseman, fil
Did you hear? Podcasts were dead, and now they’re back ! This story is suddenly everywhere. It’s not extremely accurate, but I’ll take it. * * * In early 2013, a New York Times reporter contacted me t
About these guidelines These guidelines describe how to design apps that follow the official HIG for iOS by Apple, not what you can do with custom controls. Sometimes it makes sense to break the rules
November 11, 2014 Horror Vacui A few days ago, I was reviewing screen mockups with a bunch of developers, and one of them said something along the lines of "screen five looks a bit empty. Do you think
November 6, 2014 October 19, 2022 November 6, 2014 October 19, 2022 Meaghan O’Connell | Longreads | Nov. 6, 2014 | 57 minutes (14,248 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) It was Mond
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So, I don’t drink anymore, more or less. I had a couple of whiskey and cokes at a concert last year, and that’s it for the last 2 or 3 years. I’ve got some varied reasons for that, medications, format
In recent years, many anti-rape activists have rallied under the banner of “enthusiastic consent.” Enthusiastic consent is not a legal rubric. Instead, it’s a tool that reframes consent as active – as
Our engineering team spends a lot of time and effort making News Feed reliable, simple, and fast. Almost two years ago, we switched the Facebook iOS app from HTML5 to native iOS code to optimize perfo
After some hands-on time with the Apple Watch , I’ve learned a few things. Perhaps the most important of which is that the majority of discussions regarding the Apple Watch by the traditional watch me
" Tomorrow, many of the people who merged their voices with yours will find themselves without a job. While their names have yet to be revealed, the disillusioned expressions I conjure up are keeping me awake tonight. This group will undoubtedly include numerous young adults, who have not yet found…
If you wish to remove a woman from your heart, they say to start dating a second woman. Friends gave me that advice — one would erase the other. But I didn’t want to use one woman to negate another. O
Trouble at the Koolaid Point October 7, 2014 [Note: I didn't want to have to write this. But here it is. I'm not linking it to the blog, and it won't likely stay up long *(*Update Oct. 8** I'll be tak
The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. But the products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, you
Written by Sam Davies Updated 9 Apr 2015: This post has been updated to Swift 1.2 This post is part of a daily series of posts introducing the most exciting new parts of iOS8 for developers – #iOS8DayByDay . To see the posts you’ve missed check out the index page , but have a read through the rest…
About Projects w Opinion Talks October 2, 2014 Taste and The Zen of GitHub There’s a lot of interesting things that happen the first time you really grow a company. Most are exciting, some are challen
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