By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 31, 2007
Thursday, 31 May 2007
- Pixelmator Screencast ★
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Layer-based editing in action.
While I’m at it, a friendly reminder about what I mean by “vaporware”.
- Slides and Video From May 25 LLVM Developers’ Meeting ★
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Including Steve Naroff’s talk about “clang” (PDF), a new C-language LLVM-based compiler Apple is working on. (Via Wes Felter.)
- Interview With Kubrick Assistant Leon Vitali ★
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Terrific interview by Jamie Stuart with Leon Vitali, who acted for and worked with Stanley Kubrick for over 20 years.
He never used storyboards. Never used storyboards. That’s a wonderful feeling of freedom you have as an actor, and I’ve said several times that Stanley was the closest to a theater director that I ever worked with. […] Because the way he found his first shot, he used to walk around the set with an Arriflex tube and just change lenses, look around, down, up, move away, move around. Once he found his first shot, he knew he could build the scene from that point.
- Regarding My Complaint About Upgrading Old Tracks to iTunes Plus ★
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I complained yesterday that iTunes wasn’t identifying the tracks I’d previously purchased which should have been eligible to upgrade to iTunes Plus. Ends up it was my fault: I have two iTunes Store accounts, and all my eligible tracks were purchased using my older account. After I logged in using that account, the upgrade worked as expected.
- 1986 Mac Plus vs. 2007 AMD DualCore ★
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Boot time for a Mac Plus running System 6.0.8: 11 seconds.
- Google Gears for WebKit ★
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Only for nightly builds of WebKit, and requires an input manager hack to inspect each URL request.
- Twitter Replies ★
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Great new Twitter feature — a single page that shows all replies addressed with “@yourusername”.
- Palm Foleo ★
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They’re calling it a “mobile companion”, but it’s really just a $499 Linux-based compact notebook. The UI is screen-based rather than window-based — the apps are all full-screen. Not shipping until sometime this summer.
It seems to me Palm is trying to reverse the typical relationship, where your phone/PDA is a peripheral to your PC, and instead create a PC that is a peripheral to your phone.
- Video Highlights of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Joint Interview ★
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Highlights from last night’s joint interview at the D: All Things Digital conference.