Zapier has a nice list of productivity apps and services on their blog. The cover a huge variety but focus on individual task managers and not collaborative team services. There were a few I’d never heard of or considered.
By way of Drew on Twitter
There’s a lot of history wrapped up in TidBITS. So many great things on the internet started or at least evolved at TidBITS. This post by Adam Engst really puts some of their work into perspective:
For the record, I sincerely apologize for inadvertently spawning those “one weird trick” ads, but I’d also like to note that Google has never said thank you for making its billions in Web ads possible.
In my opinion, Dr. Oz is disgusting so nothing he does really surprises me. Stuff like this just confirms my opinion that he is a charlatan schilling for investment:
I have been carefully following the wearable device market and am pretty close to consummating a longer term relationship, but just saw the piece below quoting Kaz Hirai [the president and CEO of Sony] and realized that Sony is moving into the space as well," Oz writes in an email.
Greg Pierce (of Drafts for iOS fame):
If your app is free, and they follow your link, then buy something totally different within 24 hours, you win.
Some people will mindlessly bitch about iTunes affiliate links as if Apple would otherwise have no idea what you browsed while in the iTunes or App Store. If you post iTunes links for things you haven’t actually used then, yes, that’s gross.
On the latest Nerds on Draft, we talk about a beer inspired by a toxic river fire and how we’ve changed our sleep patterns throughout our life. I really miss late night sidetracks but I also really love the early morning quiet time. Kids ruin everything in the best way. When it comes down to it, late nights were always about screwing around and early mornings are always about getting focused work done.
From Ezra Klein at Vox:
But the post didn’t include a link. This was carelessness, not malice, but it’s a violation of Vox’s internal standards. Our policy requires attribution, and any time we fail that policy is inexcusable. It’s a betrayal of what makes the web positive-sum. Silver’s right to be upset by it. He has my apologies.
I’m not a big fan of aggregation sites. I still have a low opinion of The Verge because of how they originally buried links.
This is very important.
I did a thing about a thing.
I’ve been a huge fan of DEVONthink for about a decade. It was fun to talk with Katie and David about an application that is commonly misunderstood. I don’t always need to manage a huge sprawling research project, but when I do, I use DEVONthink. It’s worth every dime to me. Listen to the podcast and you might be spending some money this week.
The latest beta build of Sublime Text 3 added a new way to define syntax definitions. It still supports the TextMate .tmLanguage definitions but now adds a uniquely Sublime Text method. At first glance it seems very powerful. Version 3 of Sublime Text is coming along quickly now and still has some surprises cooking.
This seems like an absolutely terrible precedent. Javascript injection of 1% of Chinese Baidu users is all it takes to bring Github down. Imagine what they could do with 5%.
Oh, and also trying to make forensics more difficult:
What is interesting with this new attack on GitHub is that the attackers are now trying to make it difficult to locate the injection point of the malicious JavaScript by modifying the IP TTL values of injected packets.
