Author Archives: brad

Possible Screen Saver bug in OS X Jaguar? I’ll have to test it myself before I believe it (call me cynical).

Looks like Dell may not be eating its own dog food, drugs at least some of the time.

Note: This is not a scandal or a big deal in any way, shape, or form. This sort of thing is very common. Use the best tool for the job.

Still kinda funny, though.

Here’s a Panther walkthrough.

Here’s another (sorry, no permalink to be found).

Panther definitely looks cool. The improvements to Mail will be quite welcome by my colleagues and myself. The new Finder interface doesn’t look that bad; people should stop pissing and moaning. David, who had a chance to see it an action at NECC, said that Exposé is awesome.

One thing that frightens me, though, is tabpanels. They look significantly different in the screenshots I’ve seen. I wonder how weird they’ll make my programs look?

From Evan Williams, via the Blogger Developer Network: We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger API 2.0… Well, thanks for telling us now. We are moving away from XML-RPC… and toward SOAP. Doh! Just when I finally had my half-baked XML-RPC stuff working really well! Dang. Interoperability… Well, OK. I must admit that this would be nice. But I don’t see why it can’t be done with XML-RPC. Why force all of us who make blogging clients learn, test, and implement a new protocol?

Brent Simmons agrees. And I’m with Brent. I may not like it, but there are pragmatic reasons to support it: customers. They’ve paid for a tool and they expect it to work. It’s my job to make it work.

Jake Savin of Userland chimes in as well: Will it be worth it? Will what we have at the end of this process be better than what we already have? I don’t have a crystal ball, but my fear is that we developers will have a large amount of work to do if we want to support this decision, and that the benefit to our users will be negligable. Well said, Jake.

Here’s another link to Ben Trott’s article on Why We Need Echo.

It’s a scary world when Dave Winer sounds like the voice of reason.

Marc Andreesen, co-developer of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, says browser innovation is dead. He’s probably right. And I’d say he’s one of very few people qualified to make that assessment.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, cheap with a boarded front
door.

There is a small mailbox here..

Mike, you must check this out.

Backyard nukes.

Something I don’t advocate, but link to nonetheless.

Fly naked.

Anodization.

Frequency Pro.

More words: I’ve cleared the first major hurdle. That’s good and bad. It’s good because it’s one less hurdle that needs to be jumped. It’s bad because now I can see the remaining hurdles more clearly, and there are several more than I expected.

Here’s hoping for a fall beta, but no promises.

In the meantime, if you’re interested in a beta Frequency 1.2, let me know!

David compares Dave Winer to Batman (the Dark Knight Batman). I don’t know that it’s a comparison I’d draw. It’s true that Dave Winer seems to have little time for niceties these days, but I wouldn’t draw the same comparison. I’d be hard pressed to say what comparison I’d draw, though.

House guest has returned to her parents. We made the custody exchange at church this morning. Grace is noticably less stressed; she is quite unused to competition for Mommy’s and Daddy’s attention. Overall, the visit went well. House guest was generally well-behaved, as was Grace. Their interaction, however, often left something to be desired.