December 2009
8 posts
“In most cases, the reason I don’t do special requests has to do with the...”
– Kenny Shopsin, “Eat Me: The Food & Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin”
I think anyone who has ever developed software has had to deal with this syndrome. I call it “user entitlement.”
“The natural inclination right now for geeks of a certain type is to start...”
– Anil Dash: The Twitter API is Finished. Now What?
This zeros in on what I believe is probably the major reason for Twitter’s success: the rule of least power, or its informal cousin “Worse is Better”.
If, for example, you convened a standards body of experts to design an...
The Long Tail of Humor
I never got around to writing anything about the end of Favrd, and more than enough has certainly been written about it by now, but, since it’s gone, I wanted to take a moment to mention my friend Andrew Wooster’s similar service, Tweeteorites.
Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied with Birdfeed work to plug Tweeteorites when it was first released months ago, but it came out of an IM discussion...
“There’s this problem, which is, programming is so much of an intellectual...”
– Joshua Bloch, quoted by Peter Seibel in Coders at Work (p 203) (via wka)
