December 2009
15 posts
“If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be...”
– Tom Preston-Werner, introducing Semantic Versioning.
"I Am Locking the Wikipedia Article On Our Sex... →
From McSweeney’s:
Neutral point of view is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia, and no one with a neutral perspective could claim that, over the six months during which we were engaged in a sexual relationship, my performance was “lackluster,” “uninspired,” or “noob-ish” (or, indeed, “noobian”).
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She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether It's Fun Or Not →
Kotaku profiles a young mom in Indiana who is (more or less) addicted to Xbox Live achievements:
Two hundred thousand. According to MyGamerCard, only one other woman has a total that high (with a second very close to reaching it.) And yet when Kristen brings it up, it’s with a tone of voice that ponders what she will do then. It’s almost like she doesn’t want to get there,...
“After 2 weeks in the store, I had a very bipolar weekend. First, I wrote an epic...”
– One Year in the App Store, from Retro Dreamer’s blog. (via marco).
Re: Dean.
So, in the comment thread of the Zeldman blog post I linked the other day, Dean Allen took a moment to expand on why he shut down Favrd:
I started Favrd solely to furnish me with something amusing to read while waiting in line at the supermarket, calm in the assurance that in doing so I’d never ever see Pete Cashmore’s stupid douchey face or read his stupid douchey toots. It worked great guns...
The NYT interviews Jeff Bezos about the Kindle. →
What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub?
I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully.
What if you dropped your Kindle in the bathtub?
If it’s sealed in a one-gallon Ziploc bag? Why don’t you try that experiment and let me know.
Dean.
Recently you’ve grown more and more concerned about The Pout, which is your term for the way übernerds react to things and situations which, however good they are, have drifted from those individuals’ idea of perfect and thus become intolerable. The next-most-recent example was Joe Hewitt publicly leaving the iPhone platform several weeks ago, ostensibly because Apple’s App...