May 2012

  5. @briandrum:

    RT @KuraFire: You mean you can use a “server” to prepare HTML templates and *not* download+parse 1,5 MB of JavaScript for one tweet? htt ...

  22. @briandrum:

    Geez, who unleashed the tech recruiters? About to set a record for most unsolicited job opportunities in a single day.

  24. @briandrum:

    Hate to say anything negative about @sifterapp, but the fact that it destroys markup in Descriptions without warning is really unfortunate.

  27. Exploiting Reality

    Dustin Cur­tis:

    This morn­ing, I received a LinkedIn mes­sage from a man named James Holm, who iden­ti­fied him­self as a cor­po­rate recruiter with Wey­land Indus­tries. Wey­land is the cor­po­ra­tion that funded the the Prometheus project in the upcom­ing Rid­ley Scott movie of the same name.

    I was really hop­ing this was the begin­ning of another mas­sive Alter­nate Real­ity Game in the style of The Beast. Sadly, how­ever, both links lead to stan­dard pro­mo­tional sites which ulti­mately dump you into a Face­book fan page.

  28. @:

    RT @andyrutledge: 1) It's interesting and disappointing to see how so many designers equate the absence of graphics and lines with an ab ...

  29. @briandrum:

    @clagnut Disappointed with Joyent here too. I've just finished moving all my personal sites from two Joyent servers to a Linode.

  30. @briandrum:

    Can't believe no one's sued Beddar Cheddar's out of existence after being sprayed with scalding hot cheese.

  38. @lukew:

    What's the difference between a Web app & Web site? App has an API. Site has an RSS feed.

  69. @briandrum:

    That thing where Mayor Tommy Carcetti is presented with a series of beautiful silver bowls.

  70. This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details

    Jeff Atwood:

    This is still one of my favorite quotes about soft­ware. It’s some­thing we inter­nal­ized heav­ily when build­ing Stack Over­flow. Get­ting the details right is the dif­fer­ence between some­thing that delights, and some­thing cus­tomers tolerate.

    Your soft­ware, your prod­uct, is noth­ing more than a col­lec­tion of tiny details. If you don’t obsess over all those details, if you think it’s OK to con­cen­trate on the “impor­tant” parts and con­tinue to ignore the other umpteen dozen tiny lit­tle ways your prod­uct annoys the peo­ple who use it on a daily basis – you’re not cre­at­ing great software.