Posts tagged with Technology
Is Product Simplicity a Reasonable Goal?
User interfaces are kind of a big deal nowadays in the valley; coming up with something minimalistic, simple, and takes the least amount of clicks/taps from the user is press conference material from the big companies, and the crux…
Outdated Vehicular Technologies
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I…
The Long Tail of Technological Solutionism
They are driven by a pervasive and dangerous ideology that I call "solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are "solvable" with a nice and clean technological…
Reaction to the Playstation 4 Reactions
As expected, Sony announced their next-gen console today. The keynote filled in some of the juicy details, including apparently some sort of social network and video sharing, game streaming, the usual cacophony of motion + touch + button controls, and of…
User-Centric Development Revisited
A little over a year ago, I opined that in writing code in service of our users, we as developers should spend our time bettering the tools that build on the platforms that our users are using. I was speaking…
Coding to Last?
I read this pretty interesting article on the engineering of pedals and hinges, the life expectancy of components and the rigorous testing for reliability in mechanical parts. Engineering is ultimately about tradeoffs, and this was a classic example of balancing…
