CONSUME
The tension was held a little too long and you get bored for a moment, but that doesn’t stop the payoff of the show going live. You really root for it. Not all, but some of the representations were great. Even if the look wasn’t quite right, the essence was there.
THOUHGTS
I love high quality software.
…like, really love it. Probably more than most people.
I check the iOS App Store updates multiple times a day to see if someone wrote interesting release notes. I follow a Mastodon hashtag for #TestFlight so that I can see if people are working on something interesting. I’ve been closely following companies like Panic and the Iconfactory since the mid/late 90s. I’ve also scoured Mastodon’s @indieapps.space instance to find new software. I daydream about paying for Flighty even though I’m not currently flying enough to justify it, just because it’s good software. I’ve given talks internationally at conferences (I’m stretching it — once in Canada) about how we need more culture in our software.
And when bloggers started listing their “Default Apps” for various categories, I read over 350 of them. So I want to list mine, but I also found in reading through them all, the interesting stuff is on the fringes of the main categories, so I want to focus on that, too.
I also want to mention how much it leaves a hole in my heart when good software dies. I still feel frustrated every time I use email (RIP Sparrow and Mailbox) and use banking apps (RIP Simple Bank) — both killed off through acquisitions. When platforms get weird and kill off 3rd-party apps, I care enough that I leave the platforms (RIP Apollo, Twitteriffic/Tweetbot). It pains me that I feel unsatisfied when I use the Wikipedia iOS app and know that there used to be a better 3rd-Party app (RIP V for Wiki, though I’m working on something that scratches my itch in this space). All of this makes me really worried about Arc and their VC path.
Writing this is part of my grieving process over those “Dead Apps”, but I’m also wanting to hear what holes you have. Does anyone grieve over losing good software?
NOTES
It’s gotten very good! I’m sure that there are features that note-fiends will say are missing, but it hits every note I need.
NOTES
It’s gotten very good! I’m sure that there are features that note-fiends will say are missing, but it hits every note I need.
NOTES
It’s gotten very good! I’m sure that there are features that note-fiends will say are missing, but it hits every note I need.
NOTES
It’s gotten very good! I’m sure that there are features that note-fiends will say are missing, but it hits every note I need.
NOTES
It’s gotten very good! I’m sure that there are features that note-fiends will say are missing, but it hits every note I need.
Media
After 6 months of serious and strenuous evaluation, the BrumBrum Academy is proud to announce the Brummies for 2009. Previously: 1, 2
Boom Shadow by Nino Moschella
2nd album from the guy who I anticipate new work from the most. It’s a near-guarantee that I’ll love every piece of music that he puts out.
Good City for Dreamers by General Elektriks
It’s been a while since their last release, but he picks up right where he left off 6 years ago.
Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future by The Bird & the Bee
Easily the closest I get to pop in my listening habits, but I think I’m a sucker for Greg Kurstin’s production
Runners Up: Carried Away by the People Under the Stairs, BLACKsumers’night by Maxwell, The Ecstatic by Mos Def
Star Trek by the J.J. Abrams
After the new Batman movies and this, I’m hoping that folks are figuring out how to properly handle summer blockbusters.
In The Loop by Armando Iannucci
Hands down the best use of swearing in the last decade. Even better than the TV series.
The Informant! by Steven Soderbergh
My favorite thing about this movie is that this guy really exists.
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
I remember the author from one of my favorite super-hero graphic novels back in ’88, but I’m glad to see that 20 years later he’s done his first self-written graphic novel.
Nothing
I didn’t realize it until I started this list, but what the hell has happened to me?! I apparently stopped reading this year. Asterios Polyp is the only book that I can remember reading the whole thing. I mean, I read a few things that were published before 2009 which don’t count, but still…
Man… I better clean up my act.
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