February 24, 2010
Skin of a Living Thought: Dropped IE support for Instapaper

Lack of standards compliance is causing more and more developers to come to the same conclusion as Marco. Sometimes when you’re the 800lb gorilla, you can call the shots. But sometimes when you throw your weight around for too long, people run away from you at the first opportunity.

marco:

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11:11pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/410654845/skin-of-a-living-thought-dropped-ie-support-for
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February 22, 2010
The Blog of Steve Schwartz: No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")

Feeling Like a Fraud

Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? Do you feel like a fraud, wondering what sort of voodoo you’ve unwittingly conjured up to make people think you know what you’re doing, when the…

2:38pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/405524618/the-blog-of-steve-schwartz-no-one-knows-what-the-f
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February 20, 2010
rentzsch.tumblr.com: How can the iPhone SDK be NDA'd?

I was talking to a friend, who made an interesting point.

For $99, anyone can sign up to be an iPhone Developer. Then, Apple provides you with supposedly confidential information.

I’m no lawyer, but it doesn’t seem right to claim information is confidential while advertising it for sale to…

8:37pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/401777347/rentzsch-tumblr-com-how-can-the-iphone-sdk-be-ndad
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February 18, 2010
venomous porridge: A conversation I have every month or so

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring…

4:16pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/397334204/venomous-porridge-a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or
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February 18, 2010

The author of ‘Born to Run’ on his personal history with running barefoot

11:26am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/396928474/the-author-of-born-to-run-on-his-personal
February 15, 2010

The NOLS Layering System

10:34am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/391060256/the-nols-layering-system
February 14, 2010

Padding the inside passage in a handmade kayak - what an awesome expedition.  Definitely will have to see this when it comes out.

9:32pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/390145242/padding-the-inside-passage-in-a-handmade-kayak
January 3, 2010
"Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t."

— The New York Times

7:21pm  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/315567660/now-we-seem-to-expect-perfection-from-government
November 1, 2009

How Boulder became bike-friendly

11:54am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/229949381/how-boulder-became-bike-friendly
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September 30, 2009

Crash test - 1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Impala.  We take it for granted, but it’s amazing how much car safety has improved in the last 50 years.

10:04am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/201005809/crash-test-1959-bel-air-vs-2009-impala-we
September 23, 2009

Pretty amazing feat of construction engineering - replacing a bridge span in a weekend.

9:58am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/195060149/pretty-amazing-feat-of-construction-engineering
September 18, 2009

Awesome idea - like having a factory in your home, minus the pollution and noise.

9:46am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/191055649/awesome-idea-like-having-a-factory-in-your-home
September 9, 2009
"Most of all, side project successes serve as a reminder that when you try more stuff than the next guy, up go the odds that you are going to do something right. It is the law of large numbers in entrepreneurship. Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “It is amazing how much may be done if we are always doing.” And as Jefferson later learned, it is amazing what can come of some of the things we least expect, which is good reason to always keep that crackpot project bubbling on the side and to stay open-minded about what it might one day become."

— http://american.com/archive/2009/april-2009/Success-on-the-Side/

10:58am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/183776876/most-of-all-side-project-successes-serve-as-a
August 4, 2009

DHH on 37Signals’ product litmus test:  would you pull out a credit card and pay for it yourself?

7:52am  |   URL: http://unstuck.zeschin.org/post/155642371/dhh-on-37signals-product-litmus-test-would-you