I’ve been using Mac laptops as my primary machine for a few years now, going through 5 notebooks since 2004. Each time I upgraded, from PowerBook G4s to various MacBook Pros, I’ve always felt like I was making a step forward, gaining speed, useful new features, and so forth. This week, I “upgraded” from a […]
The Bespin Pie
I’d like to give an update on an interface concept we’re exploring for Bespin. We call it “The Pie”. We’re hoping the Pie solves a couple of problems for us. Let me take a couple of steps back. Currently, Bespin has two screens, a “dashboard” and the editor itself. We’ve not been happy with this […]
The Color Mystery Deepens
Yesterday, I posted some of my frustrations with how color display behavior got a bit wacky when I hooked up a non-Apple external monitor to my MacBook Pro. Responses varied from, “I’ve seen this too and I feel your pain” to “Hey noob, don’t expect different monitors to display colors the same.” Thanks to all […]
Dell and Apple’s Color Confusion
If the two images above look exactly the same to you, move along; this blog post doesn’t apply to you. Note: I posted a follow-up to this going into a bit more detail on one angle of this. For much of my workdays, I’m using a Dell 24″ monitor to do most of my work, […]
Developer Tools Presentation and Open Session
Tomorrow, Dion and I are giving a talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center: “Web Developer Tools: How to Be Productive Building for the Web” (Wed. Apr 1, 10:50 am). While normally Web 2.0 Expo costs money to attend, our session is free; all you need do is […]
A New Memory Tool for the Web
They say Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of the Mosaic browser, once said: [An operating system] is just a bag of drivers. People have been fantasizing about the web as application platform for as long as we’ve had it. Nearly a decade later, we’re really just getting started at realizing this vision–of truly […]
To-Do: Things versus OmniFocus
I’ve been using OmniFocus on OS X since the betas and have never really enjoyed it. I find the UI quirky and am still in awe of how tracking to-do items can become as complicated and unintuitive as the Omni team have made it. As someone else once said about something else, it’s like I […]
Of Tabs and Performance
On-stage at QCon London this week, Dion and I gave a demo of Bespin. After spending a few minutes building up to the demo, emphasizing how fast Bespin performs, how it scales to tens of thousands of lines, beats DOM-based editor approaches–the usual litany of claims–I proceeded to mash on the keyboard and demonstrate that […]
Bespin and Canvas: Part 2
One of the disadvantages of writing a blog post on little sleep late at night in a hotel room while watching a movie and talking with Dion and doing your email is that you inevitably forget to write something you meant to. In this case, one of the big drivers for writing the previous Bespin […]
Bespin and Canvas: Part 1
It’s been thrilling to finally release Bespin to the world. There’s nothing quite like seeing feedback start pouring in via IRC, blog comments, Twitter, and email within minutes of pushing “Post” on the first announcement blog entry. I’m very grateful to everyone who has taken some time to engage with us in any of the […]
Ben Galbraith 