Linked List: August 10, 2014

Sunday, 10 August 2014

Vesper 2.002 

Brent Simmons:

Vesper 2.002 adds a new feature — when you’re viewing a single note, tap at the bottom of the screen to see the date it was created. Tap again to see the modification date. Tap again to character or word count. (Character count if the note is short; word count if not short.)

I really like how this feature turned out. These were all oft-requested features — some people were asking for modified/creation dates, some for word count, some wanted both — but I was reluctant to add them, because it seemed like it would add a lot of visual clutter to include all these things, and didn’t seem right to add just one of them. Using one status field for all these fields, and allowing it to be blank, feels just right. It’s all there when you want it, but there’s no additional visual clutter when you don’t.

It’s small, but focusing so much attention on every little thing is what I love about working on Vesper.

iOS at Google 

My thanks to Google — that’s right, Google (kind of awesome, right?) — for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. They’re hiring developers and designers for their iOS app teams, which operate like a start-up within the walls of Google.

Google’s iOS apps are really good, and incredibly popular. How many people do you know who don’t have at least one installed on their iPhone or iPad (probably on their first home screen, if not in their dock)? If working on Google’s iOS apps sounds like your kind of gig, you can apply to job openings in San Francisco, Mountain View, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Paris, or London.

Paul O’Neill Secures Place in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium 

The Yankees had so many great players on those late-1990s dynasty teams, but O’Neill was my favorite. Nobody played harder, and he always struck me as one of those guys who hated to lose more than he wanted to win. Every time they had a comeback in a big game, it seemed like O’Neill had a part in it. When O’Neill joined the team in 1992, the Yankees had just finished a fourth-place 76-86 season and hadn’t won a World Series title since 1978. They hadn’t even played in the postseason since 1981. When he retired in 2001, they’d played in seven straight postseasons and five World Series, winning four.

I wish I could find a higher-quality version, but the 9th-inning chant in Yankee Stadium in game 5 of the 2001 World Series — O’Neill’s final home game — still tears me up.

Seven-Film Stanley Kubrick Collection on iTunes for Just $40 

No Dr. Strangelove, oddly, but a great deal nonetheless. I love every one of these movies.