I’ve been struggling to find the motivation to write here. I’ve had my finger on the digital implode button for a couple of times. I don’t think that’s the answer though.
Dustin Curtis weighs in with some areas where Twitter needs to do better. I completely agree.
And that leads to me to the final thing I want to talk about, which is also the most important: Twitter has fucked up its platform. Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text. That’s it. Nothing great is Built On Twitter, even though it should be the most powerful realtime communications platform on Earth. There are simply no developer integration features for building stuff on top of Twitter as a platform, and that is absurd and disappointing.
— Fixing Twitter by Dustin Curtis
To be honest if Twitter was to disappear overnight then I wouldn’t miss it. There was a time when I would but those days have long gone.
Books: Dead-tree or Digital?
Just a question for you all. What’s your criteria for deciding whether to buy a book in dead-tree format or digital format?
I love getting stuff in the mail from Nicholas Bate.
Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.
Skulls and Monsters and Demons! Oh My!
Some truly amazing work by Tom Joyce.
On lighter news here’s a free business idea. A newsletter that aggregates all the best bits from your existing newsletters.
Happy Blogiversary to Cultural Offering
8 years and still going strong. Well done Kurt!
Started using Heroku’s new pipelines feature. No complaints so far with it. Also a much easier process of deploying between environments.
Just wondering. With all the focus on iOS 9 being able to block ads, will Apple’s policy change on ad-supported iOS apps change?
I just clicked the language details bar on a repo for the first time in GitHub.