Comments on: Tinkering http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/09/tinkering/ This is a weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Nicholas Riley http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/09/tinkering/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Nicholas Riley Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:51:24 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=172#comment-464 <p>This is kind of the point of services like Google App Engine. Unfortunately they still make you worry about scale before you really need to.</p> <p>And yeah, it's really hard to resist the tinkering urge. I spent an hour last week trying to hack up an application interface to Quick Look to let me go full-screen. (The documented APIs aren't very flexible and the undocumented ones are overcomplicated. It didn't go very far.)</p> This is kind of the point of services like Google App Engine. Unfortunately they still make you worry about scale before you really need to.

And yeah, it’s really hard to resist the tinkering urge. I spent an hour last week trying to hack up an application interface to Quick Look to let me go full-screen. (The documented APIs aren’t very flexible and the undocumented ones are overcomplicated. It didn’t go very far.)

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