The Hemingway app has one job: strike out all the various superfluous, unnecessarily complicated, and verbose prose from a piece of writing. The appeal of using an algorithm-as-an-editor certainly caught the attention of blogs and media outlets, even as its success threatens to make yet another newspaper job redundant. Readability – both in terms of its...
It's only a matter of days till the 8th generation of video game consoles launch in the US. Sony and Microsoft are still making the wager that, six years after the modern smartphone has been introduced, a dedicated gaming machine can still set the foundation for a profitable business and that owning the...
Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding (Kickstarter), the development process (ranging from tiny one-person indie shops to global studios), the medium (disc to download to app to web), and their business models all have evolved rapidly over...
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools "you can't live without" and found it lacking; it's more of a list of IDEs/text editors and frameworks which a front-end could choose from. I wanted a set of comprehensive tools that addressed the varied tasks that a front-end engineer...
Firefox OS is coming – Ars posted a preview of a prototype, and while its chances of success are slim in the face of (relatively) more mature mobile operating and eco-systems[1], it's encouraging to see how something as rich and as complex as an operating system be built with web APIs and standards....
I'm still a bit taken aback by the fervent response to Google's announcement that they're finally going to shut down Google Reader later this year. It has been my rock-solid replacement for Netvibes for a few years now, and while I never got into the social and sharing aspects...
