Linked List: June 17, 2014

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

iOS 8 Beta 2 

Lots of improvements and fixes. Apple released a second developer beta of OS X Yosemite too. From what I’ve seen so far in my testing, both betas are in good shape.

The Talk Show: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ 

Special guest Guy English joins me to talk about a slew of stuff from WWDC 2014.

An Introduction to HyperCard 

1987 episode of The Computer Chronicles, featuring Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler demonstrating and explaining the then-new HyperCard. I was going to joke about how old this looks, but realized I’m using a keyboard from that era.

Via Lessien, who notes that there’s still a place in the world for a tool like HyperCard.

‘What You Hoped Tony Gwynn Was Like, He Was Like’ 

Keith Olbermann on the great Tony Gwynn.

Year One 

Yours truly, writing on the Vesper Blog:

But before we get too carried away thinking about what we’re working on for Vesper’s second year, we thought we’d take a moment and raise a glass to celebrate the first one — and to thank all of you for supporting our work. So until we sober up, Vesper is available for just $2.99.

If you’re holding off on trying Vesper until we have multiple clients shipping, that’s perfectly reasonable. But there’s never going to be a better time than now to buy Vesper for iPhone. Someday, you’re going to want to be able to say, “I’ve been using Vesper since back when it was only for iPhone.”