You stay late, you screw up your mornings. You don’t, well, you anyway screw up the mornings. So the choice’s pretty clear most of the time.
“You’re killing me with your eyes But with your smile you revive” 🎵
Cleaning your code to make it ready for open source or to put it out in public is always such a tricky task. You spew so much mess when you are the only user of the code.
Why Micro.blog has a great chance to succeed?
Brent Simmons wrote a great post on why micro.blog is not another App.net. And I completely agree with him. I do want to add a couple of aspects which I believe lends it a better chance to succeed.
Brent has clearly articulated on why micro.blog is different, especially the key parts below.
And so everyone who follows me on Micro.blog sees my blog posts, and I see theirs. Simple.
And anyone who wants to could just read my blog in an RSS reader instead. All good, all open.
If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams.
I believe that is also where lies the biggest differentiator for micro.blog. After all, the posts are on one’s personal website too (I would say they exists primarily on the website first). Not locked in some silo. So in way, micro.blog acts as a feed reader for people to discover and follow posts. With an added layer of interaction around them. Every aspect based on open IndieWeb principles. Of course, I am oversimplifying, but it makes it analogous to how people have understood web.
An additional aspect that I think @brentsimmons did not extend the argument to is around adoption. For any platform to succeed it is important that a community of entusiastic adopters join. More importantly, they stay actively involved in using and improving the platform. I think with app.net this aspect was clearly missing — it managed to address the first, but it just couldn’t be different enough from Twitter to take care of later. So it had many users, but hardly any active ones. Eventually, it got crushed under the networking effect of Twitter.
I believe that is not the case with Micro.blog. Fact that one can continue to write on his own website and still be involved in the platform for interaction just makes it a good sell — especially for the proponents of open web like me. We are already seeing the early signs of that — the community is building up, staying active and involved. And it keeps growing (with more prominent developers joining in). So here’s hoping we would finally have all that was good in 2000’s web, adopted for consumption habit of 2018.
#micro.blog #opinion
I guess it’s the seasons of new bots signing up on twitter. Suddenly a rush of new followers - look clearly to be bots (and of course they have joined recently).
I believe when organisations say AI powers each of their offerings/products, they use the term way too leniently. Not every problem needs AI to be addressed. I guess it is more to create a perception - one of adopting cutting-edge tech. Amazon too just joined the club.
“What would make more sense to me is that Amazon converts the latter into a marketplace where PBMs, insurance administrators, distributors, and pharmacies have to compete to serve employees.” - Ben Thompson
So AWS for health then?
🎵The whole playlist is stunning — has taken me through so much of tiring hours. Coffee Break
Adding Touch Support on Mac
Steven Sinofsky, in response to an interesting (and hopefully promising) note from Axios, again raised the long debated point.
Adding touch to OS X would bound to be disappointing. Plenty examples of this challenge. Ultimately the use case for touch on legacy desktop OS is minimal. BUT you can’t run iOS without touch and it remains a huge challenge to have a multi-modal API..
I have always been on the side of touch being useless on desktops/laptops. But proponents of this feature have disagreed, putting forth many justifications and success stories, even if anecdotal, with Windows 10 Ultrabooks. Even though I am rarely convinced, I can appreciate how touch can come handy for some activities - mainly clicks and scrolls — especially since iPad with Bluetooth keyboard nullified benefits of laptops in some situations for me.
I believe the request from the proponents to Apple is to not make a decision for the end user, not attempt to identify purpose for, or lack thereof, touch. Put it in, let users benefit if they think they can. Unfortunately, I do not think Apple ever introduces an interface to a platform without their justification for and user story behind it.
These are such great captures of the lunar eclipse from yesterday. Of course, not captured by me - wish I could identify and credit the original poster.
