Thomas Bøhm´s blog about convergent technology, design and æsthetics, lifehacking, and the occasional maniacal rant.
The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you can do one that’s one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software. As a matter of fact, I think that the leap that we’ve made is at least five years ahead of anybody.
→ Flux 2 & Stuf reviewed at videoedtechreviews.com (Updated)
I know it seems “wysiwyg” and “dreamweaver-like” and all kinds of non-hardcore, but I kind of like the idea of Flux 2 as a tool of many, at least for prototyping or starting up a project. It supports HTML5 and CSS3, and all sorts of awesome integration with javscript “packages”, but isn´t really mentioned on any of the bigger web dev blogs. It even supports shifting you over to Espresso when you are ready to get your hands dirty in pure code. I haven´t had a chance to really play with a lot yet though.
UPDATE: Actually, it´s possible to fully create, build and start the local server (for live previewing) for a Ruby on Rails app from within the GUI of Flex 2. And at this time this afternoon it´s out of beta.
Stuf is also kinda cool, but at this point I guess I expect clipboard syncing with an iPhone client as well.
This is killing two birds with one stone with regards to my toddler and next christmas. Oh, and a third bird for daddy, of course, considering it´s the Helvetica typeface:)
Some things to think about...
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
The greatest technology contributions that Apple has ever made are the ones that are so obvious they are often overlooked. Apple essentially created the language of computer UI. In fact, they have done so twice now.
I tell people that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of ‘news’ is ‘something that hardly ever happens.’ It’s when something isn’t in the news, when it’s so common that it’s no longer news — car crashes, domestic violence — that you should start worrying.
Bruce Schneier /via charliepark and marco
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
Stephen Jay Gould /via butdoesitfloat, jeremyturner and merlin
The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,” argues neuroscientist Joshua Greene of Harvard. It “has provided us with unprecedented access to information, but it hasn’t changed what [our brains] do with it.” Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker of Harvard is also skeptical. “Electronic media aren’t going to revamp the brain’s mechanisms of information processing,” he writes. “Texters, surfers, and twitterers” have not trained their brains “to process multiple streams of novel information in parallel,” as is commonly asserted but refuted by research, and claims to the contrary “are propelled by … the pressure on pundits to announce that this or that ‘changes everything.’
Begley, “Does the Internet Change How We Think?” /via newsweek
A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.
The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
