By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
I’d love to see the gadget junk drawer at Panic HQ.
Brian Ford interviews yours truly over at Newsvine.
Finally, a Technote on GUID Partition Table, the new disk partitioning scheme used on Intel-based Macs:
Apple has switched to a new disk partitioning scheme known as the GUID partition table, or GPT. This new scheme offers a number of advantages over the previous scheme, but it also presents some new challenges. This technote describes GPT in general, and gives some specific details about how Apple uses GPT.
Sometimes — like at WWDC back in August — I feel like Apple overplays the “Microsoft copies us” card. But jeebus, you look at this list of new features in Vista and it reads like a “best of Mac OS X 10.3” feature list. (Via Brad Choate via AIM.)
He’s been there since May, according to his résumé, but this post at Slashdot is the first I heard of it.