Last weekend I spoke at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh. It was a new talk. Short - just 20 minutes - and presenting some new material. Since the talk was short, I necessarily omitted a certain amount of additional material I wanted to mention. I also presented some data that might be perceived as…

In last week’s Build and Analyze , we speculated about what the future Amazon tablet might be, fitting the most credible rumors we’ve heard so far. (This is basically an expanded version of that, so i

There’s no other way for me to start this other than by firing away:Last week I left my full-time job at Joyent , for the sole reasonso that I can write Daring Fireball as a full-time job. Two years a

HP acquired Palm at the end of April 2010 , for $1.2 billion. HP’s CEO was Mark Hurd. Three months later, in early August, Mark Hurd was forced to resign over that scandal with forged expenses and lie

BROOKLYN -- We hopped on the F line in Carroll Gardens, but not in the normal direction, north to Manhattan. Instead we headed south, out towards Gravesend. The train rattled through the long stretche

Since HP’s announcement yesterday that they’re discontinuing webOS device development (and probably webOS itself, as we know it, but they won’t admit that yet), I’ve read a lot of smart writers eulogi

After watching the eminently early and freely available WWDC 2010 session videos , I think my scales have finally tipped. It is my belief that Apple is definitely working on a new language to surpass Objective-C as their intended, primary, publicly recommended programming language, which I will call…

July 31, 2011 10.7/GUI In the fall of 2009, I was afforded a rare opportunity: I got to start a lot of people thinking about something in a new way. A video I had spent my spare time producing that su

The story of Nintendo’s investors pressuring them to release iOS games instead of more hardware platforms got a lot of attention this week. While I don’t think there’s much to it, in that I don’t thin

This is a quick update to my iOS device and OS version stats as reported by Instapaper 3.0. The same disclaimers apply. This sample does not represent all iOS owners. Specifically, it only represents

Just for fun, in light of Apple’s becoming the most valuable company in the world, I thought I’d take a look at Wired’s June, 1997 cover story 101 Ways to Save Apple . There’s some good advice, some b

August 9, 2011 The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner When you read a lot about UI design, sooner or later, you'll encounter two goals that seem at odds. The first goal is simplicity. In Getting

I’m not a patent lawyer. I’m not even a lawyer. I’m just a software developer, and like every software developer, I’ve probably unknowingly infringed upon hundreds of patents while routinely doing my