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Waiting for App.net's killer app 26 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
Last week, Mat Honan wrote an article for Wired about App.net. It does a great job of capturing the history of App.net and why it’s different from Twitter. And it’s positive for all but the closing pa...
Announcing the Tweet Marker developer plan 23 Jul 2013 | 08:17 pm
I’m launching a new paid developer plan for Tweet Marker today. It’s $75/month and includes a new admin dashboard with stats on active users, hits, and more. I’ve also expanded the API to support sync...
Layered glass 12 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
Nate Barham describes iOS 7 as layered glass: “The best developers will see iOS as an operational model, not a visual one. Imagine a Tapbots app that, instead of removing the cute ‘I’m a twitter robo...
Working from coffee shops 10 Jul 2013 | 11:39 pm
Ben Brooks makes several good arguments for working from coffee shops: “Coffee Shops started sprouting up everywhere in the U.S. because of massive demand for the coffee shop — not massive demand for...
Twitter's modern architecture 9 Jul 2013 | 08:25 pm
I love this detailed write-up of the Twitter backend as it exists today. Sending a tweet to your followers uses a massive Redis cluster with a couple terabytes of RAM: “Let’s say you tweet and you ha...
Doug Engelbart and the pace of change 9 Jul 2013 | 12:05 am
Dave Winer writes about Doug Engelbart and the pace of changing computing systems: “If you want to get the most out of great developers like Engelbart, who are productive well into their 80s, you hav...
Photo filters 7 Jul 2013 | 01:14 am
Rene Ritchie has a nice comparison of black and white filters in iOS 7 and third-party apps: “To create the comparison, I took the screenshots posted on Apple.com, isolated the unfiltered image, load...
Multiplane 18 Jun 2013 | 03:22 am
“We spend a lot time on a few great things.” — Designed by Apple in California In 1940, Ub Iwerks, the animator behind Walt Disney’s first Mickey Mouse shorts, came back to the Disney studios after a...
Searchpath open source and themes 4 Jun 2013 | 04:44 am
I have big news for Searchpath today. The client-side portion of Searchpath is now officially open source and available on GitHub. While I do think one of the innovations of Searchpath is the JavaScri...
The $229, camera-less iPod Touch 30 May 2013 | 08:09 pm
Ahead of WWDC, Apple dropped the 4th-generation iPod Touch from their lineup and replaced it with a slimmed down $229 iPod Touch. To achieve this lower price, they made a big sacrifice: no rear-facing...
