Posts tagged with Apps
The End of Standardized Readability
It started with Instapaper. The idea was to boost efficiency by employing the batching technique to article consumption, particularly mid- to long-form journalism found online. Saving an article for later separates the act of browsing content (say, from an…
Make Writing Good Better
The Hemingway app has one job: strike out all the various superfluous, unnecessarily complicated, and verbose prose from a piece of writing. The appeal of using an algorithm-as-an-editor certainly caught the attention of blogs and media outlets,…
Game Consoles and their Bet on Software
It's only a matter of days till the 8th generation of video game consoles launch in the US. Sony and Microsoft are still making the wager that, six years after the modern smartphone has been introduced, a dedicated…
The Free-to-Play Gaming Evolution
Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding (Kickstarter), the development process (ranging from tiny one-person indie shops to global studios), the medium…
10 Front-End Development Tools
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools "you can't live without" and found it lacking; it's more of a list of IDEs/text editors and frameworks which a front-end could choose from.…
The Web is Both Extremely Fast and Agonizingly Slow
Firefox OS is coming – Ars posted a preview of a prototype, and while its chances of success are slim in the face of (relatively) more mature mobile operating and eco-systems[1], it's encouraging to see how something…
