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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Found via Hacker News: abi | blog » Introducing Silent Diving Seagulls: An XMPP Interface for Desktop Notifications The idea here is that you can use XMPP to let web apps pop up Growl (or libnotify or Snarl, etc) notifications on your desktop. This is a pretty cool hack, and it seems like the right [...]
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With all the news about web fonts lately, I’ve been thinking about typography as a difference between web apps and desktop apps. No one expects web apps to conform to any standard UI, so designers can experiment and give us distinctive interfaces, using different fonts and color schemes. It seems like there’s less room to [...]
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