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Game Controllers 14 Jun 2013 | 05:00 am
With all the fuss about the new look in iOS 7, has anybody noticed Apple is also adding a standard API for game controllers? It might seem banal, but I’d be surprised if this is not a prelude to apps...
MeoTempo 8 May 2013 | 05:00 am
For about two years now, I’ve been working part-time on an iOS project with a small team of people. The app is structured as a calendar, but unlike other calendar apps this one tells you how much time...
PHP Markdown Lib 11 Apr 2013 | 05:00 am
It’s time for PHP Markdown to become a mature well-packaged PHP library instead of a hybrid file that tries to be everything for everyone. Today, I’m announcing the Lib branch of PHP Markdown. It con...
Aaron Swartz, slices of an inbox 14 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
Aaron Swartz, 2004, Markdown-Discuss mailing list: Jelks Cabaniss: Will there by a way do allow the “implicit link name” syntax to do without the following [] brackets? In other words, like [this] i...
Perhaps Microsoft Freaked Out 16 Aug 2012 | 05:00 am
Since about two years now, Microsoft has been touring its new full screen user interface that’ll soon be available in Windows 8. It’s called Metro… well, no longer. Long story short, only some weeks b...
iCloud is great, but worrisome too 31 Jul 2012 | 08:00 am
Am I worried for nothing? Say I create a new document and start writing sensitive information in it, like important passwords, social security numbers, or things about which I have signed a NDA of som...
Greenwich 7 Apr 2012 | 11:44 am
Nice work from FadingRed. I never liked much Apple’s approach to localization where nib files needs to be manually edited by each translator. Even within Apple, it leads to strange things. Greenwich t...
Inflated 2 Mar 2012 | 04:00 pm
I have a 13-inch Unibody MacBook Pro purchased in 2009. This week, the trackpad became very hard to click. In fact, on this computer the trackpad has always been slightly harder to press on the left t...
Petition 23 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm
I got an impression of déjà vu when I found this petition about MPAA bribery on the White House’s website (via Slashdot).
What’s important 19 Jan 2012 | 07:03 am
When drafting a law, just like when writing a computer program, we should always keep in mind how it can be abused and what are the consequences of those abuses. Because sooner or later, it will. Usua...
