Forest for the Trees

» Good luck, Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that Nigeria withdraws from international competition for two years to enable the country to put its house in order.

“ Change your settings so that when you reply to a note, the note you’re replying to is included below what you write (this is called quoting).

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Seth Godin has his own definition of “quoting”.

(via Vesa)

If I only had one finger on each hand, I’d leave out unnecessary letters too!

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

» PeepOpen, Geoffrey Grosenbach's über-file opener for TextMate, MacVim and Carbon Emacs

Don’t miss the blog post about the rationale behind the plugin.

Bet Against the American Dream

Also available as an mp3 file.

Don’t miss the score sheet.

“ The only thing Apple owes Adobe is decade of torturous knuckle dragging. Let’s see if Flash is still around in 2020. Maybe Steve Jobs will accommodate Adobe by throwing in a version of Flash with iPhone OS 14 as payback for Adobe sticking it out like a trouper.

— Five Tremendous Apple vs. Adobe Flash Myths

» Dan Grigsby abandons iPhone development, shuts down Mobile Orchard

I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won’t work in this ask-permission environment any longer.

A bold move, especially considering the following:

Mobile Orchard is — well, was — how I earned a living. Teaching iPhone dev classes, plus a little from advertisers and our holiday bundle, provided enough income for me to keep my kids and wife warm, clothed and fed. So I need a new source of income.

This week’s Apple news are definitely tearing me apart.

» House season finale shot on Canon 5D Mark II

Why the hell not.

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Meanwhile, lots of social media types are talking about brands and branding as if these were new and hip things. They’re not. They’re heavy and old. We need to move on, folks. Think of something human instead.

When a friend came back from SXSW recently, we talked about how, at the show, it was “social every fucking thing there is.” The term SEFTTI was thus coined.

— Brands are boring

» AdLib

Jim Hoskins dissects AdLib, the Javascript library Apple uses in its iPad-optimized version of the iPhone reference library (you need to be using an iPad or the iPad emulator to see the correct version). This is presumably the iPad equivalent of PastryKit, Apple’s UI Javascript library for iPhone.

After extracting the JavaScript and de-minifying it, my suspicions were confirmed. Apple was manually reading the touch events, calculating the inertia of the scrolling, and manually drawing the scroll bars. It was incredible that it worked so smoothly in the browser.