Entries Tagged 'Daring Fireball' ↓

Mac OS X 10.4 seems imminent. You can now pre-order Tiger From Amazon. In the US at least.

by John Gruber might have led to the quickest ROI that I have ever had from giving money to an online publication. Obviously I’m not calculating ROI, but in terms of the “give money, get more good things to read soon” equation, he’s doing a fantastic job (and I have a great tee to boot). The article prompting this outburst is today’s piece on the iPod: Why 2004 Won’t Be Like 1984.

to an article that has been making the rounds in a big way in the last ten days or so: How Microsoft Lost the API War by Joel Spolsky. There have been many reaction pieces, but this piece on Daring Fireball by John Gruber adds the most interesting perspective. “…whatfs ironic is that [Microsoft is] losing this war despite the fact that they won the browser war.”

Ronco Spray-On Usability. Daring Fireball by John Gruber is an exceptionally well-written weblog on a variety of interesting subjects. In this case he takes a look at recent complaints about CUPS by the noted Linux evangelist Eric S Raymond.

I don’t know the first thing about Unix programming vs Mac or Windows programming, but the point Gruber makes - that you can’t just approach UI as a nice-to-have afterthought - applies equally well to web development. On the web, form doesn’t follow function. Rather, form and function (at least at a high level) are intertwined to the extent that they are indistinguishable. They are the same job.

More Accurate (but, Admittedly, Less Sensational) Alternative Stencil Slogans for the ‘Neistat Brothers’, from Daring Fireball. Cf. ipodsdirtysecret.com.