By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 20, 2007
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
- Mongolian Teenager Throws Dell PC Out the Window ★
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From Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (via Fake Steve):
A teen who wanted an Apple Macintosh computer (Mac) for Christmas after seeing one of the ubiquitous apple ads on the apple website, but instead got to inherit his father’s older Windows PC, finally got mad early Saturday morning and threw out the inherited Dell PC out of the window in a bizarre case of life imitating “the internet world”. …
Said the dad, Mr. Tsolomon Enkhbayar, “I knew he was passionate about getting a Macintosh computer, but I never thought it was that passionate.”
When I was in college, my friend Neil threw the keyboard from his Mac SE/30 out the window of his bedroom after becoming frustrated (to say the least) with a programming assignment. His bedroom was on the second floor, and many of the keys snapped off and stopped working. The computer was still under AppleCare, so he took it in to Drexel’s campus Mac shop and told them, “It just stopped working.” The clerk examined the keyboard and asked him how all the keys came off. Neil replied, “I turned it upside down to clean it and they just fell off.” He walked out with a new keyboard.
- Odeo for Sale ★
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Evan Williams:
It seems likely Odeo is worth more to someone else than it is to us at this point, so we’re looking for a new home for it. We’ve been having some conversations with potential buyers, and this is our attempt to put the word out more widely in the most expeditious way (and without involving investment bankers and the like). If we don’t get any attractive offers, we’ll continue to run it.
More here from Williams on the lack of an established marketplace for selling web sites.
- Writing and Sizing Twitter ★
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Khoi Vinh on Twitter and Twitterrific.
- Frenzic ★
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Fast-paced puzzle game from Iconfactory and Artis Software. Looking at the puzzle pieces makes me want to play Trivial Pursuit.
- Forcing a Document on an App ★
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Command-Option-drag a document onto an app’s icon in the Dock to force it to try to open the file. Useful when you know more about the contents of a file than the extension or file type indicates.
- Random Shutdowns and Restarts on a MacBook Core 2 Duo ★
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My wife’s two-month-old MacBook started doing this about two weeks ago.
- Yojimbo 1.4.1 ★
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Bug-fix update to Bare Bones Software’s outstanding organizer app.
- Shades — Mac OS X Color Picker ★
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$15 color picker extension from Chromatic Bytes. You pick a starting color and Shades displays a grid of related colors to pick from. (Thanks to Jesper.)
- MacInTouch: AirPort Extreme 802.11n Review ★
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Another good AirPort Extreme 802.11n review, this one by Robert Mohns writing for MacInTouch. He was unimpressed by the speed, seeing a maximum throughput of just 35 Mbit/s; but Glenn Fleishman (who reviewed the new AirPort for Macworld) saw speeds up to 90 Mbit/s in one direction and 50 Mbit/s in both directions.
- Part Two of Marc Garrett’s Interview With Adobe’s Mark Hamburg ★
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Remember part one of Marc Garrett’s interview with Mark Hamburg, the lead developer of Adobe Lightroom? Part two is now up, and there’s some great stuff, including this on the heavy use of Lua to write the application logic:
So what we do with Lua is essentially all of the application logic from running the UI to managing what we actually do in the database. Pretty much every piece of code in the app that could be described as making decisions or implementing features is in Lua until you get down to the raw processing, which is in C++. The database engine is in C; the interface to the OS is in C++ and Objective C as appropriate to platform. But most of the actually interesting material in the app beyond the core database code (which is SQLite) and the raw processing code (which is essentially Adobe Camera Raw) is all in Lua.