512 Pixels

Viticci, this morning on Twitter:

PET scan came back negative. Like I said, cancer:

I kicked your ass.

When I read Viticci’s tweet this morning, I teared up. He and my buddy PJ spent most of 2012 fighting back against their cancer, and for now at least, they are victorious over it.

However awesome these guys are, they are in the minority. Not everyone gets a second chance. While I’m overjoyed that my buddies are doing so well, it breaks my heart to think about all the little friends we’ve seen succumb to cancer of the course of my son’s treatment.

Fuck cancer. Fuck it right in the eye. We have a long way to go until we really kick it’s ass.

Scott Forstall should get drunk and do one.

Linus Edwards:

While the internet of today is very open and one can access anything at anytime, the 90’s internet was a fairly closed off place. The vision for how people would use the internet was more akin to a planned community, where everything would be organized and you would interact with everyone in one consolidated location. Nothing exemplifies that concept more than Apple’s ‘dream’ for the internet in the 90’s, eWorld.

The Macintosh SE was perhaps the most successful compact Mac. It was the first to support ADB, come with an internal hard drive an an external SCSI port.

I own two of them. One still works, but the other (which is in far better physical shape) died back in 2005.

1. I just linked to it on my popular blog.
2. I signed up for an account.
3. I probably won’t ever use it, because OmniFocus Mail Drop works well for me when it comes to reminding me to deal with my email.

Adi Robertson at The Verge:

Some of the best citizen journalism has relied on picking a few moments from long reels of video or snapping reams of pictures in short succession, an approach that doesn’t really work with Vine.

Shocking.

Be still, my heart.

Apple:

By early last year, Apple’s cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to return $45 billion to shareholders over three years. As of next week we will have executed $10 billion of that plan.

We find ourselves in the fortunate position of continuing to generate large amounts of cash, including $23 billion in cash flow from operations in the last quarter alone.

Everyone dreams of launching their side project, but few of us manage to reach the finish line. This month, Shawn Blanc, David Sparks, Brett Terpstra, Brett Kelly and Adam King share from their experiences as professional “shippers.”

Kyle Baxter’s written a must-read piece on life and death. Blockquoting any of it would do the rest an injustice.

This week on the 512 Podcast, Myke and I discuss some follow-up, then walk through our respective workflows and the tools we use to get our Internet-based work done.

If you don’t listen to our show, this episode is a great place to jump in. I’m super happy how it turned out.

Holy cow.