I just spent about 4 hours trying to debug Day One's syncing system. Day One is the journaling app, built primarily for iOS but eventually made its way to the Mac, Android, and web. I've been using it for a full decade, initially to jot my thoughts down as a new...
I just saw that Gmail is starting to implement its own identity verification and validation system. This comes at a time when Twitter's "blue check" system has undergone product changes that make it much less valuable, and Facebook has rolled out its own paid verification program. At the same time, the...
Kevin Kelly is a tech-focused author and writer, the first executive editor of Wired , and is known for being an optimistic and enthusiastic futurist. His latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier , is a no-frills collection of short pieces of advice that he's gathered throughout his...
I've always liked E-ink as a display technology, particularly as an alternative to LCDs. They'll never be as popular , due to the inherent limitations of low refresh rates and low color...
It's a fateful coincidence that 2 of the most consequential social networks of the past decade—Twitter and Facebook—have undergone substantial layoffs in the past year, for different reasons. At the same time, the CEOs of both companies have called for flatter organizational structures, particularly within their massive engineering teams: engineering managers...
This is a good, if long , article that summarizes how everything seems to be converging on a set of homogeneous styles: The age of average I've read the bit on how all cars have near-identical shapes, and I can appreciate the ubiquitous decor of coffee shops, hotels, etc. The memetic reproduction of Instagram...
