Archive

• March 18, 2019: Weeknote 1
• February 12, 2019: Hitchcock and the author construct
• November 3, 2018: Seams, Stitches, And The Decline Of The Mac
• September 3, 2018: Neither Paper Nor Digital Does Active Reading Well
• January 7, 2018: Leftover Thoughts From 2017
• November 25, 2017: Over-engineering is under-engineering
• March 23, 2017: The process is the thing
• February 19, 2017: Von Be Don: A few notes on a recent digital publishing project in Iceland
• February 14, 2017: W3C and EME: it isn't about preventing DRM but saving the W3C
• February 4, 2017: Unpopular opinion: dismissing indirect pointers is a mistake
• January 24, 2017: Anger feels like poison
• December 7, 2016: Is JavaScript more fragile?
• December 5, 2016: Debating Progressive Enhancement
• November 1, 2016: The downside of believing in Apple
• October 29, 2016: A short primer on Icelandic politics on the day of the 2016 election
• October 18, 2016: The Tragedy/Farce of the Open Web according to journalists
• October 17, 2016: Notes on debating for the web development community
• October 11, 2016: Addendum on loose coupling and the iOS App Store
• October 9, 2016: Idle thoughts on modularity and loose coupling in digital media
• June 24, 2016: When fear is rational
• June 7, 2016: Once upon a time, I couldn't imagine a better word processor than Word
• May 24, 2016: A thought to consider
• May 16, 2016: A few thoughts on standardisation, W3C, and the IDPF
• April 21, 2016: Filling in the gaps – the dynamics of zero marginal cost
• April 12, 2016: Which CMS/blog system would you choose?
• March 30, 2016: A few simplified points on web and document security
• January 21, 2016: Judge the work
• January 13, 2016: Why did Paul Graham argue against equality?
• January 4, 2016: Purpose, Joy, Capability
• November 20, 2015: You can't fix the App Store, so here's how you fix it
• November 4, 2015: Why I am worried about Twitter and why you should be too
• October 23, 2015: The crossroads or the wilderness
• September 28, 2015: You can't solve people problems with software
• September 18, 2015: The discussion about ad blocking is very dumb (but not in the way you think)
• September 10, 2015: This is not a book, but it is a podcast
• September 7, 2015: A week of 'This is not a book'
• September 1, 2015: Launching "This is not a book" – what it is and why you should be interested
• August 28, 2015: My kingdom for a new bookstore
• August 26, 2015: Modern software sucks
• August 25, 2015: The cost versus benefits of disorganised programming power
• August 25, 2015: Who benefits the most from Open Source Software?
• August 24, 2015: Sex Apocalypse Later
• August 23, 2015: Random thoughts on work and that Amazon thing
• August 14, 2015: Bookmarks – UI flaws and other great capers
• August 13, 2015: Bookmarks – The fluidity of male sexuality and learnable programming
• August 12, 2015: Bookmarks – More money for open-source
• August 11, 2015: Bookmarks – Leaving bosses
• August 10, 2015: Bookmarks – Promoting other people's work
• August 7, 2015: Bookmarks – What Would Kamala Khan Do?
• August 6, 2015: Bookmarks – Trickle down golden geese
• August 5, 2015: Bookmarks – Hateviews are us
• August 4, 2015: Bookmarks – Milk it
• August 4, 2015: Iterating the web away:
  losing the next generation
• August 3, 2015: Bookmarks – You haven't been paying attention
• July 31, 2015: Bookmarks – It's a note card world, we just live in it
• July 30, 2015: Bookmarks – Just call it Smylfeste
• July 29, 2015: Bookmarks – That one is shaped like an idiot
• July 28, 2015: Blogger nostalgia
• July 28, 2015: Bookmarks – Make it simpler
• July 27, 2015: Wet streets cause rain and criminal responsibility
• July 26, 2015: Tweet bookmarks galore
• July 23, 2015: Random links that catch my fancy, part four of ∞
• July 22, 2015: Random links that catch my fancy, part three of ∞
• July 21, 2015: Mythic visions of sexuality
• July 21, 2015: Random links that catch my fancy, part two of ∞
• July 20, 2015: Random links that catch my fancy, part one of ∞
• July 17, 2015: An exercise for the reader in integration and modularity
• July 17, 2015: How to read my nonsense
• July 10, 2015: Is it distributed or just a disorganised hierarchy?
• July 10, 2015: On the vaunted robustness of the web
• July 10, 2015: The rules of the game have changed for RSS
• July 6, 2015: The web app developer's lament
• June 25, 2015: Other people write about digital media
• June 25, 2015: The plural of 'Medium' is clearly 'clusterfuck'
• June 24, 2015: Burnout
• June 24, 2015: The files Steven Pressfield works with
• June 14, 2015: iOS 9 content blocking extensions are not a mobile advertising armageddon
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "The new age of HTML: the web is being torn apart"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "Should I make a WWDC prediction? Yes, let's"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "Writing the Other: a book that's useful to all writers"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "Other people talk about startups and entrepreneurship"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "Other people discuss software quality (spoiler: it sucks)"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "A few quick links and thoughts on big web problems"
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: Our Grim Meathook Present #1 and #2
• June 5, 2015: From the other blog: "I really want the Supergirl TV show to be fun"
• June 3, 2015: Writing the Other:
  a book that's useful to all writers
• June 3, 2015: Should I make a WWDC prediction?
  Yes, let's
• June 2, 2015: Grim Meathook Present #2
• June 2, 2015: Other people discuss software quality (spoiler: it sucks)
• June 2, 2015: Other people talk about startups and entrepreneurship
• May 29, 2015: A few quick links and thoughts on big web problems
• May 25, 2015: I really want the Supergirl TV show to be fun
• May 25, 2015: Our Grim Meathook Present
• May 20, 2015: The new age of HTML:
  the web is being torn apart
• May 19, 2015: From the other blog: "We are a violent species"
• May 19, 2015: From the other blog: "Her movie, his name; Mad Max: Fury Road"
• May 19, 2015: From the other blog: "Toxic environments: inequality in tech is a symptom of something worse"
• May 19, 2015: Her movie, his name;
  Mad Max: Fury Road
• May 19, 2015: We are a violent species
• May 18, 2015: Toxic environments:
  inequality in tech is a symptom of something worse
• May 16, 2015: Where I write about Facebook's Instant Articles
• May 15, 2015: Facebook and the media:
  united, they attack the web
• May 14, 2015: Speeding up decision cycles with rules and heuristics
• May 14, 2015: You are here #5:
  UX, design, and CSS as a parasite
• May 13, 2015: You are here #4:
  an epic journey through app dev and male bodies
• May 12, 2015: You are here #3:
  the glorious wonders of online reading await you
• May 11, 2015: 2015-05-11-18-39-16
• May 11, 2015: You are here #2:
  an artisanal curation of reading material
• May 10, 2015: You are here #1:
  a selection of fine links and tweets for your pleasure
• May 7, 2015: 2015-05-07-00-59-18
• May 4, 2015: Five publishing-related thoughts on a Friday afternoon
• May 4, 2015: Why should people read more books?
• May 4, 2015: How is taxing ebooks as print books supposed to work?
• March 4, 2015: Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome – the book you all should read
• March 1, 2015: Idle Sunday thoughts about web trends
• March 1, 2015: Repetition only works in fiction
• March 1, 2015: The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get harder from now
• January 9, 2015: A draft of a chapter of some thoughts on things.
• December 31, 2014: Taking stock of 2013 and 2014
• December 17, 2014: The weather, of course
• December 3, 2014: Publishing business ideas are a dime a dozen
• November 25, 2014: EU VAT changes shift the digital landscape
• November 25, 2014: Money is a poor measure of value
• November 13, 2014: On conferences
• November 12, 2014: Crushed by multinationals
• November 7, 2014: Software as a strategy: prefabricated publishers
• November 6, 2014: Software as strategy in the ebook world
• November 5, 2014: The five types of unpublished books
• November 4, 2014: Four hundred words from Anita Elberse's book "Blockbusters"
• November 4, 2014: The splintered author
• November 3, 2014: There is no war between Amazon and Traditional Publishing
• October 10, 2014: Ebooks suck for learning
• September 9, 2014: The Poisoning of Social Media: A Reading List
• August 10, 2014: Wobbly Amazon
• July 24, 2014: This week's must-read post
• July 10, 2014: Friends don’t let their friends become authors
• July 4, 2014: Both at the same time
• April 15, 2014: So I had to make an ebook cover...
• March 31, 2014: So long, Readmill, and thanks for all the fish
• March 24, 2014: What ebook production problems are self-publishers facing?
• March 13, 2014: Many stories, many truths
• February 28, 2014: Problem statements for digital publishing research
• February 21, 2014: To do, to do
• February 20, 2014: iBooks Author tempts you with bling
• February 19, 2014: Microsoft Word is a liability
• February 18, 2014: The print design mentality
• February 12, 2014: Book contracts
• February 5, 2014: Intermission: sorting through the banal
• January 30, 2014: How to create value with a new thing
• January 29, 2014: HTML is too complex
• January 28, 2014: The ebook as an API
• January 27, 2014: My last word on DRM
• January 23, 2014: Except, except, except
• January 22, 2014: A thought exercise
• January 21, 2014: Losing faith in yourself
• January 20, 2014: Changing your readership mix
• January 18, 2014: Sex, education, readers, and futures: what works, what doesn't
• January 17, 2014: The various types of readers
• January 16, 2014: The unevenly distributed ebook future
• January 15, 2014: Sex, violence, and stílbrot
• January 14, 2014: Recipe for pundit response to Hugh Howey’s suggestions
• January 13, 2014: Bling it up for education
• January 9, 2014: Blogging has trained me to assume you’re stupid
• January 8, 2014: Ergodic literature
• January 7, 2014: What I thought I wanted versus what I really wanted
• January 6, 2014: The mistake of 'enhancing' novels
• January 4, 2014: Pessimistic ramblings and other fun links (week overview + further reading)
• January 3, 2014: Stumbling into publishing
• January 2, 2014: The publishing industry's new product categories
• January 1, 2014: The last two Knights and Necromancers stories
• December 31, 2013: Random, loosely connected, thoughts on the future
• December 29, 2013: Old photos posted without context: Reykjavík Cats
• December 22, 2013: Old photos posted without context: Sweep After Use
• December 20, 2013: The Checklist: fix iBooks image handling
• December 17, 2013: Great text transcends nothing
• October 17, 2013: Quarantine all ebooks
• October 17, 2013: The self-publisher's perspective of the ebook market
• October 10, 2013: Light evening trauma
• October 2, 2013: Just say no to ebook CSS and JS
• September 17, 2013: The Google Wave Heuristic
• September 12, 2013: Amazon's biggest ally is Apple
• August 26, 2013: Readmill versus Kindle – Readmill is worth the hassle
• August 19, 2013: Proprietary ebook formats versus DRM
• August 16, 2013: Publishing has catered to dumb for a long while
• August 14, 2013: Computers are too difficult and people are computer illiterate
• August 12, 2013: Why disruption goes unchecked
• August 9, 2013: Make ebooks worth it
• August 8, 2013: Ebooks and cognitive mapping
• August 7, 2013: Ebook silos, update
• August 6, 2013: Ebook silos and missed opportunities
• August 5, 2013: Technology is not inherently good
• July 29, 2013: Administrative note on baldurbjarnason.com and feeds
• July 29, 2013: Posted without comment
• July 24, 2013: The inefficiencies of joy
• July 23, 2013: Winner takes all versus the Matthew effect
• July 22, 2013: What you people read (on my websites)
• July 19, 2013: Tolerating the heat, noticing the water
• July 18, 2013: If the Kindle fails so will ebooks
• July 16, 2013: Followup to 'this ebook is a lemon'
• July 12, 2013: This ebook is a lemon
• July 10, 2013: Caught between madmen and mercenaries
• July 3, 2013: Major update to Studio Tendra's Oz project
• July 1, 2013: What are self-publishing's biggest pain points?
• July 1, 2013: Intellectual terrain
• June 26, 2013: Good books don't win
• May 10, 2013: Why does it matter?
• May 7, 2013: The OZ Reading Club: Books three and four
• May 3, 2013: Which kind of innovation?
• May 2, 2013: Books and Print Showcase
• April 30, 2013: Peasants
• April 14, 2013: For the love
• April 5, 2013: The idiocies of young men
• April 2, 2013: Studio Tendra's grand and marvellous Oz Reading Club
• March 29, 2013: Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution is dead
• February 27, 2013: The B&N fallacy
• February 19, 2013: Hire me!
• February 15, 2013: A question only you can answer
• February 8, 2013: What would a matriarchy look like?
• February 6, 2013: Respect the reader
• February 5, 2013: 33 observations on the year 2012
• February 4, 2013: Knights and Necromancers: new books and megapacks!
• January 2, 2013: The falcon's shriek
• December 29, 2012: What is actually going on in Iceland
• December 25, 2012: Merry Christmas!
• December 21, 2012: Tag soup is history
• December 15, 2012: Schlock
• December 5, 2012: Strange definitions of 'nice'
• December 4, 2012: Books of Christmas Past
• November 26, 2012: Using IDs in CSS
• November 22, 2012: Design highlights from the Icelandic book season
• November 19, 2012: News, updates, and the Icelandic book market
• November 15, 2012: A response, of sorts
• November 8, 2012: High tide and a room of your own
• November 6, 2012: Knights and Necromancers 2 has been released
• October 30, 2012: The comment-fiction challenge post-mortem
• October 29, 2012: Fantasy, Collapse, and a sense of history
• October 26, 2012: Two questions on putting books on the web
• October 25, 2012: iBooks 3.0
• October 22, 2012: Perceptions of society
• October 19, 2012: What I've been up to
• October 1, 2012: The Readmill comment fiction challenge
• September 27, 2012: Is it safe?
• September 26, 2012: Sanitation in fantasy world-building
• September 24, 2012: The time work takes
• September 21, 2012: I need your help
• September 19, 2012: Designing the covers
• September 19, 2012: Free Kindle version
• September 17, 2012: What is this?
• August 1, 2012: The stillborn creature
• July 27, 2012: EPUB javascript security
• July 21, 2012: I be writing
• July 16, 2012: Farce
• June 19, 2012: Bad writing
• June 7, 2012: A few random points on DRM
• May 7, 2012: The web and ebooks have little in common
• April 26, 2012: The end of ebook development
• April 20, 2012: Aftermath – notes on the Amazon post
• April 15, 2012: Today is not tomorrow (or, how to beat Amazon)
• April 3, 2012: Bits, bobs, and anecdata
• March 29, 2012: Lessons in interactivity
• March 20, 2012: Hierarchies of ebook design
• March 12, 2012: It's time to treat ebook developers as developers
• March 7, 2012: Code doesn't change minds
• March 3, 2012: Game over, Amazon wins
• March 2, 2012: On CSS Page Templates
• February 29, 2012: Javascript in ebooks
• February 20, 2012: Explanatory windows
• February 13, 2012: Readium and other good intentions
• February 10, 2012: ePub windows and widgets – a proposal
• February 4, 2012: The semantics of ebook widgets
• February 1, 2012: What do we want from the Kindle platform?
• February 1, 2012: iBooks widgets – to javascript or not to javascript
• January 27, 2012: Disruptive crap
• January 26, 2012: Me, elsewhere
• January 21, 2012: The pros and cons of the iBooks 2.0 textbook format
• January 20, 2012: The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets
• January 19, 2012: The iBooks 2.0 textbook format
• January 17, 2012: The publishing animal
• December 8, 2011: A day of innovation on the future of the book
• November 30, 2011: What a publisher does
• November 8, 2011: Design pseudoscience
• October 28, 2011: A tale of three blog posts
• October 24, 2011: CSS and ebook design
• September 15, 2011: The loss of ambient intimacy
• August 26, 2011: Friday links and reading
• August 4, 2011: Convert or engage
• July 30, 2011: CSS3 Hyphens
• July 29, 2011: Just you & Google
• July 24, 2011: Knowledge is not adoption
• July 23, 2011: HTML5 history API
• July 17, 2011: Your friends, in boxes
• January 27, 2011: Localstorage & messaging in ePub
• January 26, 2011: Javascript in epub
• January 25, 2011: An epub experiment
• December 21, 2010: What is an ebook?
• October 25, 2010: Hypotheses and testing
• October 7, 2010: Identifying publishing innovators
• October 7, 2010: On quality in publishing
• June 28, 2010: An interesting discussion