Put the knife down and take a green herb, dude. (c) Ruffin Bailey 2001-2021

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Apple's canary in the room: Don't sleep on developers I'm a little late to the party, but I had a quick reaction when rereading "Apple's Elephant in the Room": We now know from Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue on John Gruber’s podcast that many of these features were essentially unused by anyone who wasn't a developer. Look, unhappy early adopters is a big deal. Remember when we started noticing more and more people were bringing Mac laptops to dev conferences? There was a cache, a buzz that started catching on. Remember who started all this mess anyway? Marco Arment, a developer. Remember where his post got reported? Everywhere. Mac news sites, Mac podcasts (The Talk Show, anyone?), everywhere. Developers are canaries. Developers told Apple that we like Bluetooth keyboards on our Apple TVs. We like Bluetooth keyboards with our iPads. And guess what Apple built? The "Smart Keyboard". Don't sleep on developers' favorite features. Labels: apple, apps, developers, features posted by ruffin at 3/16/2016 11:45:00 AM

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URLs I want to remember:
* Atari 2600 programming on your Mac	* joel on software (tip pt)
* Professional links: resume, github, paltry StackOverflow	* Regular Expression Introduction (copy)
* The hex editor whose name I forget	* JSONLint to pretty-ify JSON
* Using CommonDialog in VB 6	* Free zip utils
* git repo mapped drive setup	* Regex Tester
* Read the bits about the zone	* Find column in sql server db by name
* Giant ASCII Textifier in Stick Figures (in Ivrit)	* Quick intro to Javascript
* Don't [over-]sweat "micro-optimization"	* Parsing str's in VB6
* .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); (src)	* Break on a Lenovo T430: Fn+Alt+B
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