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O shred shred shred they all go into the shredder The paper into crosscut traces, the paper torn from paper. The trash bills, cancelled cheques and plaintive requests for money, The invoices paid and unpaid, the statements and old contracts, Outdated tech white papers, postcards from decades-past lovers, Illegible notes and forgotten reminders, all go Continue reading w/ apologies to Tom
The last hummingbird of summer is only known in recollection. When the days make the subtle turn from mild to cool, when the sunset hours still contain the memory of when they were fully light: that s when you keep watch, noting the time between visits these are the female travellers from far north, the Continue reading a renewal
Last week saw the abrupt closure of The Dissolve, a site created by writers from the Onion s AV Club who d become disillusioned by its shift towards headline-chasing. It offered smart, insightful film criticism over the past two years; I had no idea it existed until I found out it was going away. It s not the Continue reading everything is recapitulation
Perhaps the most disconcerting part of the Apple Watch demo was the familiarity of its feature set: check stock prices, count steps, send messages, pull up a flight schedule and boarding pass, open the door to a hotel room when you re nearby, or the garage door at home when you re far away. Its ordinariness is Continue reading motion and rest
Did anyone else read 'Apple's car could come to market by 2020' and think 'man, that's like 20 years from now' Steven Frank (@stevenf) February 20, 2015 @HuffPostTech 2020? That's so far into the future, that's, like, holy crap, that's only five years from now. Jim Snider (@jesnider) February 20, 2015 'what's 10 Continue reading false starts, true beginnings
My understanding is that accessibility is coming — they’re working on it, but it isn’t ready yet 60 frames per second is not “would be nice”. It’s “must have”. And the DOM doesn’t have it. Once again, the plain old web has been weighed in the balances and found wanting, as it was with Flash Continue reading the ease of indulgence
Take a widely-owned sensor with a reverse-engineered USB driver; hook it up to an Android phone with an OTG cable; install a custom app that pulls data from the sensor and pushes it to a free cloud-hosted Mongo database; fork a GitHub repo of a Node.js webapp, add your DB credentials, and deploy it onto Continue reading hunting highs and lows
There s a little flea market down the road from us, just a few tables and a coffee stall every Saturday in the summer, where one of the regulars is an oldish bloke who sells men s trinkets: penknives, hip flasks, metal badges, that kind of thing. One corner of his table is piled with broken wristwatches Continue reading so amazingly primitive
Suppose you re a company with squillions of dollars in cash and boundless ambition, developing technologies that rely to some degree on small-scale concentrated adoption to propel future success: how do you make that happen? You identify a target market that fits certain criteria, make a pretty compelling opening offer in terms of up-front and ongoing Continue reading robot ponies for everyone
I ve spent most of my adult life looking for significance in patterns and tropes, whether in words on a page or tailed logfiles on a terminal, motivated by a common goal: what is going on here? In that spirit, I present to you the six-customer coin-arbitraging borderline-self-parody Washboard, apotheosis of laundry revolutionaries; the Bostonian meatpuppet Continue reading the physiognomy of the…