I was thirty-four years old the first time I got high. It wasn't the first time I'd tried marijuana, but it was the first time it had an effect on me—any effect. Until then my friends and I wondered if I was nonresponsive to THC. I conclusively determined that
Last week, the poor state of independent software sustainability on iOS moved noted developer Brent Simmons to write an essay urging indies to "do it for the love," a resignation of sorts to the seeming reality that supporting oneself economically purely from developing and publishing apps of one's own choosing
Formula 1
You hear it almost everywhere in the Formula 1 community, from fans, from commentators, from bloggers, from former drivers: the rules are "ruining" Formula 1. You hear complaints about the lack of noise, how quiet today's V6 hybrids are in comparison to the V8s, V10s and V12s of yesteryear. You
Oluseyi on Tech
There are no more tech companies, where by "tech" I mean information and computer technology. This statement is immediately, trivially disproven—except it is also essentially true. There are no more companies that thrive by selling technology as technology to consumers. Every company you thought of doesn't make money from
In 2014 the US "tech" industry discovered a truth that I'd always known: it was staggeringly homogenous, basically a bunch of white dudes, a couple of South East Asians (also mostly dudes), and a sprinkling of women and ethnic minorities. The largest tech companies published their diversity reports, with white
Animation
On October 11, 2014 I saw a couple of people on my social networking feeds lament the "fact" that it was the first time in decades that there were "no Saturday morning cartoons" on in America. What really happened was that the last over-the-air broadcast station with a multi-hour programming
animation design
It's interesting how the production method of an animated show—traditionally hand-drawn, Flash-style "paper" marionette, stop motion, or 3D CGI—can so deeply affect design. I've noticed some long-running shows switching from one to the other, typically from hand-drawn to Flash-style, and there is just something... off about them. The
Several months ago I was reading a fun piece by Kontra on the subject of sports previews written by software. Prolific Internet commenter Walt French (you'll find him writing detailed comments on several sites: Asymco, Monday Note, the late AllThingsD) felt that the potential was being overstated: It would also
Release
I've been a professional software developer for over a decade, all told: 2006 to present, plus an earlier stint in 2000 and 2001. I've written a ton of software and released or contributed to the release of numerous components, web apps, services, mobile apps (most of them internal Enterprise Deployments)
Our heroes are often fallible. How, then, should we react when—not if—they falter? I admire Ed Catmull. Yes, present tense, even after learning of his role in the anti-poaching, wage-fixing arrangements of several Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area technology and technology-related companies. I admire Ed Catmull for
A while back I casually stumbled into a metaphor war over "rape." An individual had described what he considered an aggressively, eye-searingly ugly web page design (ironically for an essay entitled, "Design is Intent") as "visual rape." You know what happens next. Let's cut to the chase: does anyone really
I rarely write about my personal habits, in any area of life. I share them liberally when asked, and post about them intermittently on App.net (the only "social network" I belong to—except Tumblr; maybe I'll write about that sometime), but my good friend Chris Krycho wrote about his