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The Story of the Tilde.Club, by Paul Ford
The Story of the Tilde.Club, by Paul Ford
The above gif courtesy of ~butts. My earliest days on the computer were spent using platforms like AIM, Homestead, and LiveJournal, so the nostalgic references to "the past" in this article were...
The Story of the Tilde.Club, by Paul Ford
Plain Text Sports
Plain Text Sports
Instant live sports scores, play-by-play, and box scores
Plain Text Sports
Review: Magnet app organizes your desktop
Review: Magnet app organizes your desktop
I’ve been playing with Magnet (currently $1.99 at the Mac App Store), an OS X utility that enables you to organize your screen by auto-fitting windows. Instead of tweaking open windows until …
Review: Magnet app organizes your desktop
Piping stdout and stderr to Preview
Piping stdout and stderr to Preview
A while back, I wrote about how handy it was to redirect a man page into Preview. This allows you to keep the man page open, search it, and generally have a better user experience than struggling w…
Piping stdout and stderr to Preview
December’s Font of the Month: Bradley Initials DJR
December’s Font of the Month: Bradley Initials DJR
The type foundry of David Jonathan Ross (DJR), home of the Font of the Month Club. Making fonts such as Fit, Forma DJR, Gimlet, Manicotti, Input, Turnip, Condor, Trilby, Fern, and Output.
December’s Font of the Month: Bradley Initials DJR
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To AppleScript
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To AppleScript
This is the first post in a new series that revisits some of our readers' favorite posts from the past that still contain awesome and relevant information that you might find useful. This post was...
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To AppleScript
I am not our users — Minimalist EdTech
I am not our users — Minimalist EdTech
Recently I was leading a meeting with a group of very young designers presenting a low-fi version of an idea for part of our product. I...
I am not our users — Minimalist EdTech
LookUp 6 Review: The Biggest Update Yet for the Best Dictionary App
LookUp 6 Review: The Biggest Update Yet for the Best Dictionary App
The average life cycle of an app typically consists of two phases: the app’s early days often bring a host of significant updates as it strives toward feature maturity; however, once that level of maturity is achieved, the updates become more iterative and unsurprising, largely aimed at keeping pace with new OS technologies. LookUp 6
LookUp 6 Review: The Biggest Update Yet for the Best Dictionary App
‎‘Vanilla Sky’ review by Erin • Letterboxd
‎‘Vanilla Sky’ review by Erin • Letterboxd
This is not a personal rule for taste that I'm instating in anyway - it's just that I'm having more and more of a hard time blindly accepting films that explore philosophical topics established in…
‎‘Vanilla Sky’ review by Erin • Letterboxd
Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away
Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away
The legacy of the seat belt, the world’s most prevalent safety device, and the act of corporate goodwill that ensured everyone‘s car got the best design.
Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away