December 2011
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“Few outside the technological field even knew his name, yet his work has...”
– Gene Yuh on the death of Dennis Ritchie.
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Or: Competition is Good →
John Gruber on the threat of Google:
A different perspective would be that Google is the bigger threat, and that using Apple products is a way to better protect our privacy and personal information.
This was in response to Dave Winer suggesting why he uses Android:
If there is no alternative to iOS then Apple will have exclusive control over what makes it to market. That is a future...
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The Old Republic →
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches next week, and I’ve long looked forward to this game. I know what I’ll be doing as the year ends.
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Ghostery →
I was slowly working on an add-on to block social buttons on websites, but I recently just found Ghostery. They have an extension for Chrome and Firefox, and it rocks.
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Widgets the Right Way →
A lot of sites are using widgets more, be it for ads, or these terrible social buttons that have emerged. Besides not wanting to spend time downloading the social buttons that I won’t use, what I hate the most is that they all have this in common: If they lag, they stall the rest of the page.
That’s because they document.write their contents into the page, which prevents all further...