By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 14, 2007
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
- Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait ★
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Chris Jordan:
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
(Via Design Observer.)
- Flickr Collections ★
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Sets for photo sets.
- Keyword Assistant 1.9.4 ★
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Ken Ferry’s helpful add-on hack for iPhoto gets updated for compatibility with iPhoto 6.0.6.
- The Programmer Hierarchy ★
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Org chart showing which languages make programmers feel superior to other programmers. (Via David Weiss.)
- South by South-BEST! ★
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Todd Levin’s gonzo SXSW coverage for The Morning News.
- Spanning Sync 1.0 ★
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Bi-directional synching between iCal and Google Calendar; $25/year or $65 for a one-time purchase.
- VoodooPad 3.1.4 ★
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How can I not link to version 3.1.4 when it’s released on Pi Day?
- Eric Gill Got It Wrong; A Re-Evaluation of Gill Sans by Ben Archer ★
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I disagree strongly, but it’s still worth a read. Stephen Coles has a follow-up at Typographica with links to a bunch of alternatives to Gill Sans.
- Security Update 2007-003: Mac OS X 10.3.9 Client ★
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Just for 10.3.9 client, but there’s a corresponding update for 10.3.9 Server.
(Thanks to Nat Irons.)
- France Bans Citizen Journalists From Reporting Violence ★
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This law is merde.
- The ‘Helvetica’ Premiere ★
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Alissa Walker:
Okay, okay, everybody has been making their little jokes about “the movie about a font.” But guess what — this is not really a movie about a typeface. Helvetica is just a character in this wonderfully-made film, which just might be the best history of graphic design we’ve ever seen.
Missing that premiere is the one and only regret I have about leaving Austin yesterday instead of today.
- Mac OS X 10.4.9 ★
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I wonder if this is going to be the last non-security update to 10.4.
- SXSW 2007 Photoset on Flickr ★
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Some of my photos from this year’s SXSW conference in Austin.
- Adobe Edits the Development Cycle ★
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The Register’s Mary Brancombe talks to Adobe Photoshop co-architect Russell Williams about the changes his team made for the development of Photoshop CS3:
Probably the most effective thing we did was institute per-engineer bug limits: if any engineer’s bug count passes 20, they have to stop working on features and fix bugs instead. The basic idea is that we keep the bug count low as we go so that we can send out usable versions to alpha testers earlier in the cycle and we don’t have the bugalanch at the end.
The goal is to always have the product in a state where we could say “pencils down. You have x weeks to fix the remaining bugs and ship it”.