Thanks Steve
I don’t generally care much at all about the deaths of famous people, but I feel profound sadness at the passing of Steve Jobs. As I type this on my Macbook Air and my iPhone buzzes next to me with … Continue reading
Tag Archives: apple
Identity, SSO, and networked namespaces
Jud Valeski had a notable observation about how potentially powerful an OS level namespace and single sign-on capability could be for internetworked applications: Everyone’s talking about the power of Twitter and Apple’s native single sign-on model in iOS 5. While … Continue reading
Posted in web
Tagged apple, authentication, content, identity, internet, jud valeski, networking, oauth, single sign on, twitter, web
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How to keep your software awesome
tl;dr: Fix bugs quickly, write features and core slowly, use github. Or just scroll through the graphs. We’re either at, or past, my 30 year anniversary (I was a kid, can’t remember okay?) of either using, writing or managing software. … Continue reading
Dear Apple and Google, Please Fix…
A long overdue return to technical stuff… If you use Google Analytics and actually look at your visitor data, you will be familiar with this phenomenon, which is the reported Safari browser version in GA: Those are in fact, not … Continue reading
Python 2.5 distutils, snow leopard and xcode making gcc happy
As many Python folks have discovered, upgrading to Snow Leopard can cause some pain for development. For the most part, this involves reinstalling a bunch of things (macports, python itself and whatever python packages you use). This has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Misc
Tagged apple, compiling, gcc, multiprocessor, os x, programming, python, python25, sdk, snow leopard, xcode
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Is it me, or are monitor and hdtv aesthetics backwards?
I’ve been poking around looking at 24 and 30 inch monitors. A few things jump out quickly in this kind of search, the first is that there aren’t actually very many 2560 res monitors out there (because really, what’s the … Continue reading
iPhone 3.0 still no lock screen options except for Rock Your Phone and not even that for 3GS
I kind of went crazy with iPhone software after I got a 3GS. The speed increase of the GS is staggering compared to the original iPhone and visibly faster than the 3G. With the speed bump I found my phone … Continue reading