Apple launched the iPad and it was pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting. Depending on what model you buy it’s either a giant iPod touch or a giant iPhone, and I agree with Fraser Speirs – it’s the future of general-purpose computing devices.
And that makes me so sad.
I touched on the reason why in [...]
Many of the projects I’ve been working on aren’t terribly serious. Failcount couldn’t exactly be said to be the most important endeavour mankind has undertaken. If it’s used heavily within a group, I suppose it could have a worthwhile purpose, to see when people are overly stressed, but that’s kind of incidental.
This last week, though, [...]
It seems like more than just a month since I wrote about Failcount. I very quickly realised that it had some serious flaws and suspended new sign-ups. Since then, I’ve rewritten it from scratch – creating an entirely new git repo and copying across hardly anything from the original version.
In some ways, this new version [...]
It’s been three week since I wrote an application in a day, and I’ve been chipping away at it since to get it to a properly usable state for many people.
I think I’ve spent around one full day’s worth of work on this, spread out into little chunks while doing other things. I carried my [...]
Each evening I post to Twitter ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, today has been X productive and Y% fail’. It’s a simple daily ritual which allows me to quantify both how much I’ve got done and how frustrating it was doing it. At some point I plan to write a script to log [...]
A couple of progress updates on things I’ve written about previously.
First up, my ‘MacBook Mini’ is coming along excellently. I’ve been using it at work and to write some short stories, the battery life is brilliant and the keyboard is nearly as good as the one I use with my iMac.
I’ve got speaker/headphone switching working, [...]
I love technology. It’s what allows us to have the awesome existence we live – from the wheel to a quad-core Xeon, all this technology is what enables human civilisation.
All properly designed technology is morally neutral. Like a hammer, it just is – neither inherently good or bad, since moral judgements like that derive from [...]
