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Turning down Zynga: Why I left after the $210M Omgpop buy
It’s good to know there are some decent people out there who dare to stand up for what they believe in. And then I wondered: why was I even trying to compromise? Zynga has an Austin studio, where several good friends of mine work. Yet I had never applied to Zynga. Why? Because the company’s…
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Batman in the Kitchen
A fun cartoon by my favorite Kevin Cornell, via his Instagram. He really has no business rolling the dough while the roux is burning. You don’t. Leave. The Stove!
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ALA: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature CSS3, a Kitten Dies
A List Apart gets it right: stop screwing with the terminology. Correct naming matters. Every time you call a proprietary feature “CSS3,” a kitten dies. Any -webkit- feature that doesn’t exist in a specification (not even an Editor’s draft) is not CSS3. I have been hearing this for a while. But what bothers me even…
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Apple Maps
I have been meaning to blog about the recently discovered custom map tiles that appeared in the recently released iPhoto for iOS. While not particularly suited for driving directions etc. they do strike me as beautiful and with an Indiana Jones-movie like charme. As with many Apple products, they don’t do everything, but what they…