Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Derek Powazek – Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us: „Just think about the millions of people on the internet, each in their own timeline of learning something new. Most people will never get to 2,500 hours. They’ll never not suck. It’s not personal, it’s just math. So that’s why the…

Scott Adams – Brain Management: „I have a theory that music appreciation resides in the same part of your brain where you think about yourself. That might be why it’s good to listen to music while doing boring tasks, such as going for a long run, because music interferes with your mind’s ability to think…

Gojko Adzic – Heroes or idiots?: „Ninety minutes and several confusing messages on the PA system later, the aeroplane was firmly on the ground. The passengers found themselves about 500 miles away from where they were supposed to land and their luggage was now touching the ocean floor. They were however all alive, which was…

Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web: „HTML-based software has historically provided a better user experience compared to what went before. Everyone in our profession knows that building a good user interface is maddeningly difficult. The discovery, in the early Web browsers, that reasonably-typeset text which embedded simple forms and hyperlinks, and came equipped with…

Jason Fried at Inc. – Why Is Business Writing So Awful?: „Remember: It’s not about telling a story. It’s about telling a true story well.“

Ben Ward – Understand The Web: „Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that…

Kurt Opsahl at the Electronic Frontier Foundation – Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline: „To help illustrate Facebook’s shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook’s privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time!“ Via Nat Torkington.

Carsonified has a video and transcript of Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps: „When you think about the New York Times versus the Wall Street Journal, or you think about Vanity Fair versus Vogue, or you think about Fox News versus CNN, each of these media companies have a voice. They have…

Bruce Tognazzini – Mac & the iPad, History Repeats Itself: „Steve assembles and motivates a small team of young geniuses, then sets them to work for “90 hours a week and loving it.” The results are highly-integrated designs that far outpace the competition. It is this small-team approach that, of necessity, results in important capabilities…

Dion Almaer at Ajaxian – Drag and drop file uploads in Gmail using just the specs: „Gmail started off with the awful input type=“file“ „add more“ typical solution that we all know and love. Then they added the ability to select multiple files via Flash…. and now they allow the ability to drag and drop…