I’ve recently seen the concept of delight in software brought up in a couple different places, and I just wanted to cheer it on.

Jesper at waffle is starting an open-source web browser project to revive the spirit of OmniWeb, called rouse. He coins the phrase “delight innovation”. I love that phrase. He’s talking about taking [...]

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Marco Arment wrote yesterday about mobile computing being more exciting than what he called “Desk” computing. I’m a fan of Marco’s writing, and I usually agree with him, but that post got me thinking. I can’t argue that mobile isn’t exciting, but I disagree with his assertion that desktop computing is a solved problem. He’s [...]

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I chime in on the reactions to the iPad as a new wave of pleasantly functional but closed computing.

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I really liked a recent post by Alex Payne titled Switching Season. He says he gets an itch every year or so to go try something different, and I can sympathize. What he says at the end really resonates:

It’s about computer usage as a creative act, something that becomes harder and harder to experience [...]

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I talk about a script I’ve been using to tweak my attention scheduling.

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Some things I’ve picked up from working with PyObjC recently.

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I’ve been looking around for some more detailed information about the “Site Reliability Engineering” positions at Google. Apparently the role is a real mix of very large-scale system administration, planning and automation.

I’ve collected some links to public info about the job.

The Google channel has a promotional video from one engineer about the role – he tells [...]

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I’ve always liked the programming-languages community website Lambda the Ultimate, and recently I went looking for something similar for the High-Performance Computing community. I didn’t find exactly that*, but I did find a few great resources for news about HPC and computing research policy:

HPCWire is a well-known news source for HPC. It has daily news [...]

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The UT-Austin TRIPS project will unveil their processor next Monday, and I take a look at what it looks like.

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This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.

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