Joel Spolsky has a remarkable track record of speaking truth to programmers on his blog: Joel On Software. Occasionally he says something with which I disagree, but usually it’s on a subtle point, or it’s an issue where his passion for doing things one way is motivated by his preferred platforms: Windows and the [...]
Google frustrates me by highlighting in their products some of the best and worst of web usability.
Consider Google Maps, which won me over instantly when I first tried it, almost entirely because of the innovative (then) “drag to scroll” behavior you can rely on whenever you see a Google map.
They won me over with a [...]
I’m playing with some design changes for MarsEdit’s main window, and thinking it will probably end up mimicking the classic “Mail source list utility bar” appearance, where a few small buttons appear beneath a source list at the left-hand side of the window.
With things in flux while I moved bits and pieces of the UI [...]
OK … I mean this in the nicest possible way, because I have also considered (and may someday pursue!) writing my own ToDo-type application.
But I’d like to offer my revision on a popular joke from academia…
Those who can, do
Those who can’t do, write ToDo apps.
Those who can’t write ToDo apps … eventually figure out how [...]
My name is Daniel Jalkut. I'm a Mac software developer and founder of Red Sweater Software, LLC.
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