When looking around for a text editor for Roosa’s new iMac, I came across Smultron. Free until version 3.8, version 4 is available in the Mac App Store for $5. I’m trying out the free version 3.5.1 before splurging on it. It appears not everyone’s been happy with progress: version 4 has quite a few negative reviews over the loss of a tabbed interface.
May 2012
May 22, 2012
May 17, 2012
- Norwegian medieval tech support. New tech can be confounding, as this situation portrays. Ironically, it evinces how it’s the immaterial nature of interfaces that causes problems (the fear of breaking things, the lack of affordances, the arbitrariness of causality). #
May 14, 2012
- Lifehacker’s article on teaching yourself to code. I get asked for good resources or places to start, so I thought I’d file this for reference. #
- Color Forecast is a neat idea to show you what colors are being worn by analyzing video feeds from the streets of Antwerp, Milan and Paris. #
May 5, 2012
May 1, 2012
Everything that’s wrong with PHP
PHP: a fractal of bad design. A well-researched article on everything that’s wrong with PHP. Am I going to stop using PHP over night over this? No. But that doesn’t mean there’s isn’t a lot to learn fromn it. And, as always, sometimes worse is better.
- Japanese pole toppling. It all kicks off at 0:38. What a sport! #
