I like being big.
Safari slows down your system more than Firefox does. I wonder if this is anything to do with the Safari memory leaks… (0 comments)
This screen (or something similar) comes at the end of all installations powered by the Installer VISE package, and has done for many versions past:
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If the installation has completed successfully, why would you ever need to ‘run the installer again’? I’m sure this was useful ten versions ago for some obscure reason, but now it’s just another weird UI holdover that serves to confuse your average user.
Inspired by this talk about ideas, I have created the Idea Exchange Rate.
As the site explains, since British ideas are “ten-a-penny”, and US ideas are “a-dime-a-dozen”, we can calculate an accurate exchange rate between British ideas and US ideas. I anticipate this becoming a very important metric for pan-Atlantic intellectual property negotiations.
Programmer Personality Test. Like Myers-Briggs, but for programming style. (0 comments)
37signals has made their Getting Real book (previously a $19 PDF download) freely available on the web. Lots of short, easily-digestible one-page essays about how to develop, market and release web apps with a lean and mean small team. (0 comments)
These diagrams describing the syntax of JSON are really tasty. Much easier to visually parse than BNF is. (0 comments)
Why CoreAudio is Hard A good explanation of why computer audio is still hard, and why we still need buffering and have latency, even in these days of full-screen 24 fps video. (0 comments)