Be sure to check out Shawn Blanc’s interview of John Gruber from 2008. Great stuff.
Category: General Tech
Shawn Blanc on intrv.ws
A great interview with one of my favorite Internet writers. Ian P. Hines really does ask some good questions.
If I don’t get to interview for Shawn for “Writers I Read,” I may just link to this a dozen more times.
Episode 44 of the Bro Show
If you don’t listen to this podcast, at least download this episode. Shawn Blanc gives some great advice to web content producers in the first segment.
On Pixelfari
On Sparrow’s Roots
Be sure to check this great interview at Cult of Mac on the new Gmail client for the Mac.
More on File Names and Folders
I’m quite comfortable with my nested folders. I like having a place for everything, and knowing that everything is in its place.
I like folders, don’t get me wrong.1 But unless Notational Velocity learns some new tricks, I’m not willing to use them for plain text storage.
A ‘Groundbreaking Pen Experience’
Oh, HTC. You hurt me.
‘Stop Worrying’
Dave Caolo, on using file names as an organizational method:
The trick is in how files are named. Ben Brooks wrote about this today. I like his method, though I’ve adopted a simpler syntax. For example, a note meant for 52 Tiger (be it a post idea, reference note, etc.) starts with “52tiger.” The note that became this post was “52tiger text post.” This keeps things in alphabetical order and acts as a simple categorization for the apps that don’t support tags.
Ben Brooks, on Twitterrific
I think it is unfair to hold the Iconfactory guys to a bar set by Twitter.app — built by the service’s in-house developr and released very late in Twitterrific 4.0’s development cycle. That said, I think Ben’s done a good job at listing the app’s shortcomings.
Twitteriffic — on all platforms — is a complex app. Craig Hockenberry and his team give users more than one way to do things. I think most of these will get resolved quickly — the Iconfactory has always been very quick to fix things. Besides, most of what Ben doesn’t like could be solved by giving the users more options — the very thing the developer is prone to do.
More on Twitterrific
I was going to work on a mini-review today, but then Ben linked to this, which says pretty much everything I was going to talk about. Thanks, Internet!
Nokia’s Solution
The Instapaper API
I’ve made an unusual decision for it that I’d like to explain.
I think he’s made some great choices in how to roll out his API. There are very few cases of a developer caring so much about his product.