New Simplenote App Updates for iOS, Android, and Mac, some nice iterations. Update: Simplenote for Android was just highlighted by The Verge as one of the best Material design apps.
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For the best explanation of what’s going on with capital markets now it might be best to look to Venture Capital in the 1980s.
Yesterday’s post was a bit of a downer, so here io9 lists The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True In 2014, including technologically-assisted telepathy, 3d printing in space, laser weapons, and landing a robot on a comet.
Speaking of PGP and security, this self-described best PGP tutorial for Mac OS X, ever actually lives up to the promise. Check it out, makes encrypting and decrypting things on the fly super easy.
This article on the amazing rise of bacon was one of my favorite articles I read last year. About bacon.
Developing an API is hard. Here’s Automattician Demitrious Kelly On API Correctness.
Avleen Vig wrote a great case for distributed teams that covers many of the high-level highlights I’d agree with.
Shubhro Saha on why software engineers should write. Hear hear.
Longreads has just published their best of 2014 list which has plenty to keep you entertained and read for hours.
Performance As Design, by Brad Frost. Great thoughts and links. Performance is going to be a big focus for me in 2015.
“Because the most-popular songs now stay on the charts for months, the relative value of a hit has exploded. The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music, media researchers report. And even though the amount of digital music sold has surged, the 10 best-selling tracks command 82 percent more of the market than they did a decade ago. The advent of do-it-yourself artists in the digital age may have grown music’s long tail, but its fat head keeps getting fatter.” — The Shazam Effect.
Munchery is Eating the Restaurant, a cool write-up of Munchery which I’ve been a long-time fan of and is an Audrey company. Whenever I’m in SF I order from Munchery.
From Novice to Master, and Back Again, by David Mackenzie.
Mother Jones covers the results in Texas of the election in a harsh but fair way: Wendy Davis Spent $36 Million and All She Got Was This Lousy Landslide. Now What?. I think Texas will be the focal point of American politics in years to come, but this was not the year it started.