I’ve been re-watching a few Hitchcock movies lately. Largely some of his older stuff as that’s what Amazon Prime has. Stage Fright. 39 Steps. The Lady Vanishes.
That sort of thing.
Some of it ages surprisingly well.
Some of it doesn’t.
I wonder if anybody at Apple realises that every argument they make against adding touch screens to the Mac is also an argument against the iPad being a Mac replacement?
Books are coasting on their tactility. Digital is just sinking. Three pieces on active reading.
I’ve never been much of a fan of the ‘What I learned in this year doing X, Y, and Z’ tradition of many bloggers.
There’s a gif going around presenting a debate about whether websites are under-engineered or over-engineered as Daffy and Bugs doing their duck-season/rabbit-season skit.
A few words on not using the standard publishing industry processes for making digital work.
(This is a follow-up to my earlier blog post Von be don: A few notes on a recent digital publishing project in Iceland)
You may or may not know this, but last year my mother, Bergljót Baldursdóttir, and my sister, Brynhildur Jenný Bjarnadóttir, published a children’s book in Icelandic, Von be don, Magnús og Malaika leysa málið.
The debate surrounding the W3C’s involvement has polarised. Unfortunately for the W3C, both sides are right.
Here’s what’s going to be a very unpopular opinion: the biggest hindrance to productivity apps on iOS isn’t the app store but nonexistent support for indirect pointers.