My life changed on April 9, 2010. At least, my work life did. And when you own your own business, your work life tends to bleed — heavily — into every aspect of your life. So when I received the annou
In 2011, I made the move to using iCloud full time. This change was due mostly to the fact that I no longer trusted Google with my data (or any service where the user is the currency , not the custome
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Someone once joked that the Tea Party Movement was my generation's punishment for teaching our parents how to use the Internet. As many of us know, that teaching continues on a daily basis; a big part
Ethan Hill You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can revea
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Ethan Hill You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can revea
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November 7, 2012 The Best When I got back to San Francisco after a three month trip to Southeast Asia last year, I had no possessions. I was living out of hotels. Everything I carried had to fit into
Last Tuesday, Apple announced that Avie Tevanian was taking on the new title of “chief software technology officer”, and that taking his place as senior vice president of software engineering would be
UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of . I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a go
PAOLI, Pa. — N ot far from Valley Forge, around the corner from Bravo Pizza, up the road from Paoli Auto Body, there is an odd-looking office building that resembles a stone castle. An eye doctor is o
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After receiving a number of reasonable complaints about the gender-oriented nature of this article from people I respect very much, I’ve decided to take it down for good. While the dialog was never intended as commentary on the role of gender in technology, I’m…
The tech unit's sign, autographed by its members. Election tech 2012 The GOP arms itself for the next “war” in the analytics arms race How Team Obama's tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Romney ca
Nexus 7 with mobile I've owned too many tablets over the last three years, and not a single one has had cellular connectivity. I've always bought the Wi-Fi model because I don't want to pay for extra
Siri is a promise. A promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user, a new paradigm in our evolving relationship with machines. Siri could change Apple’s fortunes like iTunes and App Store…or end up being like the useful-but-inessential FaceTime or the…
For the most part, conference realignment has wrought more bad than good. Longstanding rivalries (Texas-Texas A&M, Kansas-Missouri, West Virginia-Pittsburgh) have been disrupted. One conference (the Big East) will soon be a geographic farce, and another (the WAC) will soon be extinct.
However, one…
Apple is eventually doomed. Yes, the most valuable company on the planet will slowly fade into stagnant mediocrity. It will be replaced by something that they will not predict and they will not see coming. This horrifically efficient culling is a fact of life in technology because it is an industry…
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Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “ We’ve Passed Peak Apple ”: Why do I th
The Responsive Designer Oct 16 2012 I had the pleasure to speak at Web Expo Guildford on Friday 12th October, and it was received very well despite my nervousness (it was my first speaking enga
The best code editors in 2023 Discover the best code editors available now. The best online coding courses in 2023 By Tom May last updated 6 June 23 Paid-for and free coding courses to hone your skill
The best code editors in 2023 Discover the best code editors available now. The best online coding courses in 2023 By Tom May last updated 6 June 23 Paid-for and free coding courses to hone your skill
(This essay was a finalist for a 2013 National Magazine Award in the Essay category.) T HE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something to d
Even after his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he’d heard was the pilot saying, “Bailout! Bailout! Bail—” Before the third call was finished, there’d
If you’re making websites, chances are you’ve given some thought to what constitutes a responsive-friendly design process—and you’ve probably found that adding a mockup for every breakpoint isn’t a su
As more diverse devices embrace touch as a primary input method, it may be time to revisit navigation standards on the Web. How can a navigation menu be designed to work across a wide range of touch s
Photograph by James West. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. IT’S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I’ve been inside a prison cell. Now I’
Regular readers will know that I've been a " Getting Things Done " fan for a long time. I've been following GTD since I first picked up the book some time in 2004. I can't honestly say that I'm even today really, really good at it, but I try and it helps me. I'm going to assume here that you are at…
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