“The Battle Between Flat Design & Skeuomorphism”
February 12, 2013#
January 23, 2013#
“The stupidest thing ever written about the MacBook Air”
I don’t think MG Siegler likes this. Joking apart, ridiculous post.
January 17, 2013#
Alt-J (∆) — Live on KEXP
Incredible.
January 17, 2013#
What No One Told You About Z-Index
The problem with z-index is that very few people understand how it really works. It’s not complicated, but it if you’ve never taken the time to read its specification, there are almost certainly crucial aspects that you’re completely unaware of.
January 16, 2013#
Dependence on Amazon, Facebook and Google
My Amazon account is my entry to the cloud, my saved files on S3, virtual machines I fire up. My Facebook account is bound to 30 apps I developed (many of them are active and running) and my key to several other sites/services, Spotify for example. And finally my Google account, which is even more essential. My main mail account lives there, Analytics, AdWords, et cetera.
I think I (and you) should be nice and thankful to them. If one of them would cancel my account, I’d be totally fucked.
January 3, 2013#
Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google
Chris Hulbert is a freelance iOS dev and tells about his time working for Google:
So what’s the workflow like, what can we learn? Well, very much like a stricter version of how they work at Github: Everyone has a task list to work from, and for each task you ‘branch off’ (kindof, they use a customised version of an obscure source control system, but i’ll translate it into Git parlance).
Once you’ve completed your task, you submit your code in that branch (which is a perforce client) for review. Someone with ‘readability’ and ‘owner’ permissions is then required to approve your code, where readability is an internal certification for competence in the relevant language, and owner is someone with permission to approve code in that particular source tree. Best case, your code is approved, you can then merge master into your branch and push your branch up to master.
December 19, 2012#
The Problem With Free Apps
This post is inspired by the mid-strong shitstorm Instagram had to deal with in the last days.
If you build and launch a service like Instagram, you can either
- charge people by adding a price tag to your app
- don’t charge people and use them as a product later
In my mind, you should charge people. The only reason Instagram (and Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are free is that they gain traction faster and that it’s easier for users to sign up. The problem here is that users won’t tolerate to pay money for services in the future while being mean when the service they didn’t pay money for but love to use is trying to monetize them.
In the end it’d be much easier to charge users. Those free services are going to make it fucking hard to earn money on the internet in the near future. I hate my software to be sponsored and destroyed by ads, I’d much rather pay 100 bucks for Instagram or Facebook to see only the posts of my friends.
November 20, 2012#
„Der letzte Lebenstag, vor dem dir so graut, ist der Geburtstag der Ewigkeit. Wirf alle Last von dir! Wozu das Zögern? Hast du nicht einst auch den Leib verlassen, der dich der Welt verbarg, und das Licht des Tages erblickt? Du zögerst und willst nicht? Auch damals hat dich die Mutter unter schweren Leiden ans Licht gebracht. Du seufzest und weinst? Das tun auch die Neugeborenen.“ — Seneca
November 18, 2012#
Aeronautical by Benedict Redgrove. Fantastic photographs. (via but does it float)
November 17, 2012#
FAZ: Google zahlt 22 Millionen für Datenschutz-Verstoß
Google kann die Kontroverse um das Umgehen der Datenschutz-Einstellungen bei Apples Safari-Browser wohl mit der Zahlung von 22,5 Millionen Dollar (17,7 Mio Euro) beenden. Die zuständige US-Richterin kündigte an, dass sie die Einigung des Internet-Konzerns mit der amerikanischen Handelskommission FTC billigen wolle. Die Summe erscheine ihr angemessen, sagte Richterin Susan Illston bei einer Anhörung in San Francisco am Freitag, wie die Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg berichtete.
Das ist insofern interessant, da Safari eine extrem strikte Privacy-Basiseinstellung hat. Mich hat das Thema vor einiger Zeit länger beschäftigt, als ich bei der Entwicklung von Apps für Facebook Probleme hatte, Cookies in Safari setzen zu lassen.
