By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 7, 2007
Saturday, 7 April 2007
- Microsoft Changes Tune on Selling DRM-Free Songs ★
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This probably has been in the works since before last week’s Apple-EMI announcement, but the perception is that Apple is leading Microsoft around by the nose.
- No One Belongs Here More Than You ★
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Miranda July:
OK, here I go. I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.
(Via Jason Fried.)
- Eric Albert on Designing for Readability ★
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Eric Albert agrees with Chen:
In all of these cases, well-designed readable code makes a huge difference. It can be ported or improved faster and with less risk, and the resulting changes, if done right, are themselves far more maintainable in the future. In some cases this has been the difference between a single 5-minute change and weeks of work plus ongoing maintenance for me and other engineers. It’s a very big deal.
- Raymond Chen: Design Code for Readability ★
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Raymond Chen:
Even if you don’t intend anybody else to read your code, there’s still a very good chance that somebody will have to stare at your code and figure out what it does: That person is probably going to be you, twelve months from now.
- Paul Graham: ‘Microsoft is Dead’ ★
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Outstanding essay on the end of Microsoft’s reign over the computer industry:
I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in our insular little “Web 2.0” bubble. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news.
- Microsoft Considers Giving Away Zunes With Subscriptions ★
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A sure sign that sales are really going great.