Jon Buda

Oct 22

Chris Piascik cartoon: Millionaires in US Congress -

A graph by the wonderful illustrator Chris Piascik.

Oct 21

Backbone.js on Rails live audio Q&A chat -

Last Friday, October 14th, we hosted a two hour live Q&A chat for purchasers of our Backbone.js on Rails eBook with co-author Jason Morrison. We invited people who have downloaded the book to…

Oct 20

Steve Jobs on Creativity -

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to…

Oct 19

Big Drop In Car Crashes Tracks With Blackberry Outage -

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Wow…

Oct 18

The Cycle Wherein Apple Creates a Product and People Copy It and Then ‘Improve’ Upon the Design and Then People Ask Apple to Do the Same ‘Improvements’ and Apple Doesn’t and Then People Get Mad at Apple and Apple Keeps Making More Money Than Everyone Else -

And the Headline of the Week award goes to Trevor Gilbert.

Oct 14

RIP Jobs -

Steve Jobs memorial at Eaton Centre’s Apple Store.

Oct 13

The Last Time I Saw Steve Jobs -

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Cool.

Oct 12

Less Stuff, More Happiness -

An inspiring Ted Talk by Graham Hill. Something I think we’re all trying to get better at.

Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late -

Andy Baio:

So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.

Oct 10

Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project

"We went into Sean’s bedroom – and there was a kid there setting up an Apple computer that Sean had..." -

“We went into Sean’s bedroom – and there was a kid there setting up an Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot…

Sep 29

Will Paul Kahan Start Cooking on Big Star's Truck? -
Big Star’s Food Truck

Apparently the answer is yes, at least according to Chicago Foodie. The blog quotes Paul Kahan as saying that his team will start cooking on the Big Star food truck…

Sep 28

Grove announces Bamboo Backs for MacBooks | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog -

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Damn, these are kind of awesome looking…

Sep 26

Why aren't you building your startup for early adopters? -

It’s time that we all re-read Geoffrey Moore’s book, Crossing the Chasm. Seriously, stop whatever you’re doing right now, download a copy to your kindle, and spend the next…