…Exponential growth is seductive, starting out slowly and virtually unnoticeably, but beyond the knee of the curve it turns explosive and profoundly transformative. The future is widely misunderstood… Today, we anticipate continuous technological progress and the social repercussions that follow. But the future will be far more surprising than most people realize, because few observers [...]
Yesterday, Heather Arthur posted a well-written and sad account of how she felt after the open ridicule of one of the projects she had made available on GitHub. This caused the battle lines to be lain between the Ruby and node.js communities. Friends of mine opened fire at one another. That made me sad. Thanks [...]
Actually, it’s not a list at all. There’s just one thing I want from iOS 7. I want it to expose sufficiently powerful hooks that Google could implement Google Now for iOS. A few months ago, I switched from my iPhone 4S to a Nexus 4. This was quite an aberration for me, as I [...]
The URL is an important strength that the web has over native apps. In web apps, the URL goes beyond just being a static reference to the location of a document on a server. The best way to think of it is as the serialization of the application’s current state. As the user interacts with [...]
If you’ve ever used node.js, you’ve probably also used Isaac Schlueter’s npm, the node package manager. By maintaining a central repository to which authors can quickly publish their JavaScript modules, npm has made it easy to get started building node apps and its popularity has exploded over the past year. Unfortunately, two months ago, the [...]
I come across a lot of really interesting links related to Ember.js, but often don’t have anywhere useful to put them, or don’t really know how to describe the thread that holds them all together. So here is my linkdump post, which I will update as I remember things, that contains useful stuff for Ember [...]
Jean-Baptiste Queru’s remarkable piece on the sheer amount of abstraction mankind has built to be able to load the Google homepage: For non-technologists, this is all a black box. That is a great success of technology: all those layers of complexity are entirely hidden and people can use them without even knowing that they exist [...]
Every so often, we get requests to make Ember.js support AMD (asynchronous module definition). Until today, I had yet to hear anyone articulate why the advantages outweighed the (in my opinion) many disadvantages. Then, James Burke wrote an article called Simplicity and JavaScript modules that has so far done the best job outlining why AMD is [...]
Yehuda Katz and I spend the majority of our time pair programming on client projects and on our open source projects like Ember.js. As in any profession, it’s important to be “foaming at the mouth crazy” about your tools. Since Tilde moved into our new offices, we’ve finally put together what I think is our dream [...]
Where is the web’s Loren Brichter?1 Why does it take big teams, big budgets, and long timelines to deliver web apps that have functionality and UI that approaches that of an iPhone app put together by one or two people? If you’re a developer who is obsessive about building a quality user experience, you are most likely [...]