Technology

Can anyone recommend a good Mac/iOS app for reminders/alarms that recur multiple times a day?

In honor of Kathy Sierra’s recent Wired piece (wired.com/2015/02/silico…), here’s a video I revisit about once a month: vimeo.com/24195442

I’ve committed my share of online sins, but I have never understood the outsize glee of the common lynch mob. nytimes.com/2015/02/15/mag…

The internet is the most sophisticated medium for text that has ever existed, and you people are tweeting pictures of paragraphs.

Man, there were several years there when Apple products could be relied on to just do exactly what they were supposed to. I miss those days.

Makers of mobile apps that hold sensitive personal information: please let me stay signed in. My phone’s native security works just fine.

This is the most exciting piece of software I’ve seen in ages. It will make doing design on the go so much easier. duetdisplay.com

Twitter pro tip: for a series of related tweets, reply to yourself and remove your username from the reply. Makes the thread easy to follow.

DID YOU KNOW FOOTBALL IS HAPPENING TOMORROW? NFL ENGAGEMENT ON TWITTER IS ESPECIALLY LOW AMONG TWITTER USERS SO WE ARE GETTING THE WORD OUT.

Got 4 NFL emails from Twitter (1 for each account) in flagrant violation of my email settings.

P.S. – I unequivocally despise football.

“It’s okay, it was only a dream. You don’t have a Reddit account.”

Huge kudos to Twitter for finally indexing – and making searchable – all existing tweets! macstories.net/ios/you-can-no…

I can’t look the other way anymore as Uber demonstrates again and again that it is run by terrible people. Deleted.

Anyone know how to get Photoshop (Mac) to play nice with Tibetan type? Specifically vowel stacking. @AdobeCare

Yeah.

The last paragraph nails it so hard: “Two Minutes of Walking on the Internet as a Woman” theawl.com/2014/10/two-mi…

My new @TWC modem is supposed to triple my internet speed but has instead cut it in half. @TWC_Help

In my increasingly rare Facebook visits, the routine always includes debunking a “satirical” clickbait hoax article someone posted unawares.

The internet is the giant slap fight arena our ancestors could only dream of building.

Netflix’s projected ratings for me are usually pretty close, but lately they’re skewed suspiciously high. Is this happening for anyone else?

“At minimum, Reddit is a kleptocracy that speaks to lofty virtues while profiting from vice.” theverge.com/2014/9/8/61213…

On the eve of Apple’s latest unveiling, here are @globalmoxie’s thoughtful design guidelines for wearable technology. globalmoxie.com/blog/smart-wat…

“I Did a Thing No One Would Ever Do and I Was Unhappy with the Results” wired.com/2014/08/i-like…

Goodbye!

Yes, Comcast is awful, but sorry, I just don’t have any sympathy for people paid to be persuasive on the phone. theawl.com/2014/07/sympat…

“Peer to peer commercial interactions can save us time and money… can also degrade worker and consumer protections.” medium.com/the-nib/9ea5ba…

Seven years later, the touchscreen keyboard is the dominant species, and it’s still nowhere near as usable as its tactile precursor.

Attention software branding/icon designers: there are colors other than blue that are available to you.

“If we don’t start getting serious about this, as a public, we will lose the most important medium in human history.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Facebook:Twitter ≠ 1:1, but their stark disparity of engagement with my net neutrality tweet makes me wonder if non-techies don’t know/care.

Net neutrality is too important for any of us to stay on the sidelines. This is literally the least you can do. savetheinternet.com

I’m no misogynist, but I’ve been responsible for some of the “thousand tiny paper cuts” of “Technology’s Man Problem” nytimes.com/2014/04/06/tec…

“…there’s a decent chance that Silicon Valley and Brooklyn don’t need another you.” This has been on my mind too. the-pastry-box-project.net/ed-finkler/201…

Sometimes, I’m really proud of my friends. Pretty often, actually. Anyway, read what @kissane wrote. incisive.nu/2014/thinking-…

If your app prompts me to rate it, with the options being “Rate 5 Stars” and “Not Now,” I’ll go out of my way to give it a one-star rating.

After a year of Pro @letterboxd membership, today I became a Patron, because it’s worth every penny and more. letterboxd.com/pro/

Tonight’s smart playlist formula: “A-Sides.”

This is how Adobe Illustrator and I are getting along these days. bukk.it/bad-day.gif

Saddened by the end of @GetEditorially, a great product made by great people. Here’s looking forward to more great things ahead of them.

An app that dissects and reassembles Ken Burns films as one massive American history timeline? Yes please. avclub.com/article/docume…

Facebook, perhaps knowing its schmaltzy approach is likely incompatible with my content, will not generate an “A Look Back” video for me.

Thoughtful insights from @adactio on award culture running counter to the collaborative spirit of the web: adactio.com/journal/6668/

The 30 Years of Mac icon font is surprisingly sloppily drawn, and has odd lapses of detail (e.g. wrong aspect ratio for TiBook-era laptops).

So @squarespace’s amateur website creation tools are okay but their amateur logo creation tool is bad? I don’t get what the problem is.

1 says, “I am plugged in and charging.” 2 says, “I am plugged in and not charging.” WHY DOES 2 EXIST.

Woke up in a weird panic about downloading my old Dopplr travel data, only to find I am 11 days too late. techcrunch.com/2013/10/18/nok…

“Your request is being processed.” Actually, the way computers work is that when I click unsubscribe, you can make it happen that instant.

Caught up on the new iPhones. I wish I could get a 5s in a 5c’s body.

My friends at @GetEditorially have officially opened their doors to the public today! Writers, start your engines: editorially.com

It seems like an important option is missing here, but I can’t put my finger on it.