- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-future thing, and actually suggests several interesting possibilities for transformative technologies, if anyone can figure out how to do them. It also makes me think of a whole new spectrum of problems for people with certain disabilities that will need solving. If you give even a little shit about how you interact with the technology around you, this is a must read. - Custom input types for edit in place
I think I'm about to fall down a JS hole. This, specific, JS hole. Lucky me.
Links for Tuesday November 8th 2011
- Apple Exiles A Security Researcher From Its Developer Program For Proof-of-Concept Exploit App – Forbes
This is, frankly, idiotic. Yes, he violated Apple's TOS, but there is no evidence that he did it with malicious intent, beyond proving that it's possible to get a dangerous app onto the App Store. I expect the security flaw he's exposed to be patched relatively swiftly, but the deeper issue of shooting the messenger is what really needs addressing here.
Links for Friday November 4th 2011
- Video: London From A Bus Window | Londonist
This is a very pretty video, and worth 5 minutes of your time.
Links for Thursday November 3rd 2011
- Up by Jawbone | Band + App Inspires Healthy Living
Reasonably unobtrusive activity/sleep monitor for use with iPhone. May have to get one in the new year.
Links for Friday October 28th 2011
- ASHES: A graphic novel by Alex de Campi & Jimmy Broxton
Been meaning to link to this all week. Old chum Alex de Campi, who you may recall did the rather excellent comic SMOKE some years back, is looking for backing to produce a sequel, with art by the superb Jimmy Broxton. I can confidently predict that this will be absolutely brilliant, and you should fork over your cash at once. (I would have already done so, but Kickstarter hates me, and will not let me pledge. So I encourage you all to do so instead, because I really want to read this.)
Links for Thursday October 27th 2011
- Robot Barf
This is exactly my problem with QR codes – they're by robots for robots. They have next to no utility for humans.
Links for Monday October 24th 2011
- Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
This opens up all sorts of possibilities for page design…
Links for Thursday October 20th 2011
- Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fascinating and stomach-turningly sinister. - Whisky Marketplace
Somebody has finally made a whisky shopping site that I can get excited about – it'll let me filter by age, price, and other characteristics so I can actually explore looking for something interesting, new and in-budget, rather than having to know what I'm looking for. Nice.
Links for Wednesday October 12th 2011
- notes.variogr.am – Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
A bit techy, but a good read, and an insight into the problems that Spotify and last.fm have to work hard to solve. I'm not posting this because it's hard on Facebook – they've stepped into a difficult arena, and have some catching up to do, but that's not a crime – but because it's an insight in how complex technical problems have very simple, very direct real-world impacts.
365 And Done
Well, I didn’t quite manage a totally legit one-a-day – to get the whole thing done has taken slightly over a year. But this shot here is the last of my 365. A sunset behind a telegraph pole seemed like a fitting end.
On to the next thing.