February 2012
7 posts
John Gruber on Mountain Lion →
John Gruber was invited by Apple for a private presentation of OS X Mountain Lion:
But this, I say, waving around at the room, this feels a little odd. I’m getting the presentation from an Apple announcement event without the event. I’ve already been told that I’ll be going home with an early developer preview release of Mountain Lion. I’ve never been at a meeting like this, and I’ve never...
Hacked
The Tumblr account which I use to run The Pilcrow was hacked a few hours ago, hence the spam post (in case you saw it). Bastards.
The problem is now fixed and won’t happen again. My apologies.
Distance →
Speaking of magazines I’ve (pre-)ordered, you could do worse than supporting Distance on Kickstarter. Distance is a new quarterly publication featuring long-form essays about design and technology, published by Nick Disabato of Cadence & Slang’s fame.
There’s a lot of writing about the hows and whats of design, but we wonder where the whys are. So much of the writing...
Offscreen Magazine →
New good looking 112-page print magazine about people who make digital products:
Welcome to Offscreen, a new, collectible print magazine with an in-depth look at the life and work of people that create websites and apps. We want to tell the less obvious human stories of creativity, passion and hard work that hide behind every interface.
Besides six interviews with creative minds of...
Kickstarter's $2M →
Today, in five hours, two different Kickstarter projects — Elevation Dock and Tim Schafer’s1 designed Double Fine Adventure — reached $1M in funding. I backed Tim’s game, hoping for an iOS or Mac version.
It’s a major highlight for Kickstarter, which has been breaking the publisher barrier between creators and consumers for some time now. I believe the world will now start...
Musings on Preprocessing →
A few years after trying CSS Preprocessors for the first time (back then, the only one was SASS), I recently began using them again1. It took me just a few hours to reach the same conclusions that Chris Coyer reached.
For a long time I thought: I write CSS everyday. I know CSS pretty well. My workflow is fine. I’m productive. Why does anything need to change?
The real answer is that...
Interview on showcasePT podcast →
(This interview is in portuguese)
A few months ago, Pedro Telles, the host of showcasePT, a podcast about portuguese people doing techie things, invited us for an interview about Listary, which is now posted.
I had the pleasure of spending 30 minutes talking about my background, the goals behind Listary, how people may use it, the crowded productivity market, the reliance on Simplenote, why we...