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A couple days ago, Daniel Jalkut wrote a quick note wondering if the future is writing native desktop apps in languages like Python or Ruby, dropping down into C/Obj-C only for performance reasons. It’s been an interesting thread since then, in comments and other posts. Notably, today Bill Bumgarner responded with a long and informative ramble [...]

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This is about building an iTunes store-style interface to the web’s bibliographic information.

I’ve been pushing along the hCite Microformat process, which will set a standard for HTML publishers to add simple semantic markup to their pages that programs like BibDesk can read as citation metadata.

In stark contrast to great but complex things like [...]

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A great article about Burnout and “Hurry-sickness” from New York magazine - “Where Work is a Religion, Work Burnout is Its Crisis of Faith” Interesting, but thankfully not as relevant now as it would’ve been a year ago.

One quote I loved (and would love to see proof of:)

Elevator engineers even have a term for how [...]

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