“How I Built Platforms, and How They Deteriorated Over Time — @glecharles — As in guillotine…”
“How to Dig a Billion-Dollar EdTech Hole”
“The business model they aspired to was hostage-taking.”
“App Store Desire Paths — Pixel Envy”
“Surely it more desirable to think less about what is legally possible and more about what is best.”
“Apple apologizes for botched WordPress rejection – Six Colors”
‘“Going to the press never helps” may be the most hilariously false thing Apple has ever produced’
“Disincentives are more powerful than incentives – Jessitron”
“Manton Reece - Jason Fried on TWiST about Hey vs. Apple”
Unlike most others, it seems, I’m mostly curious about the demotivational effect of Apple’s app store shenanigans.
“1:1 Foundations: best practices for conversations that count - LeadDev”
For most jobs I’ve had, the number of structured 1:1 meetings I had with my line managers throughout the lifetime of the job could generally be counted on the fingers on one hand.
“Michael Tsai - Blog - WordPress Bug Fixes Blocked Over IAP”
“inessential: Worrying Effect”
Developer fear of iOS app store shenanigans intensifies. It’s almost as if Apple is deliberately killing off dev enthusiasm.
“radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance - CSS-Tricks”
“Where to Fix a Problem - esther derby associates, inc.”
Fixing the system instead of the employee was good advice decades ago (Deming et al.) and it’s good advice today.
“Some people claim that Mac users can “just right click” to run unsigned software. But what does that mean exactly?”
“Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91 - BBC News”
Linking to this just to highlight that, in trying to fix a problem they created, Google just came up with a whole new set of ways for your site to break.
“Fandom, Folksonomies, and Tagging Things Right - The History of the Web”
“We’re using that as a model as we go out and do more digital content. We’ll take the most successful books and repackage it as physical books”
“DC, the fate of the floppy, Hollywood and the Great Reckoning - The Beat”
There’s a chance that most of trade publishing will end up going where DC is now.