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San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down 8 Jul 2013 | 11:11 pm
It’s impossible to argue that San Francisco hasn’t changed my life dramatically. When I moved to the Bay Area four years ago, I was an inexperienced kid who was working at a Genius Bar in an Apple Sto...
Evergreen Browsers 25 May 2013 | 12:43 am
…Exponential growth is seductive, starting out slowly and virtually unnoticeably, but beyond the knee of the curve it turns explosive and profoundly transformative. The future is widely misunderstood…...
Open Source, Thick Skin 24 Jan 2013 | 10:18 pm
Yesterday, Heather Arthur posted a well-written and sad account of how she felt after the open ridicule of one of the projects she had made available on GitHub. This caused the battle lines to be lain...
My iOS 7 Wishlist 21 Jan 2013 | 11:53 pm
Actually, it’s not a list at all. There’s just one thing I want from iOS 7. I want it to expose sufficiently powerful hooks that Google could implement Google Now for iOS. A few months ago, I switched...
Our Approach to Routing in Ember.js 15 May 2012 | 03:57 am
The URL is an important strength that the web has over native apps. In web apps, the URL goes beyond just being a static reference to the location of a document on a server. The best way to think of i...
Best Practices Exist for a Reason 29 Apr 2012 | 03:54 pm
If you’ve ever used node.js, you’ve probably also used Isaac Schlueter’s npm, the node package manager. By maintaining a central repository to which authors can quickly publish their JavaScript module...
Ember.js Resources 7 Feb 2012 | 08:22 am
I come across a lot of really interesting links related to Ember.js, but often don’t have anywhere useful to put them, or don’t really know how to describe the thread that holds them all together. So ...
Dizzying But Invisible Depth 5 Feb 2012 | 08:37 pm
Jean-Baptiste Queru’s remarkable piece on the sheer amount of abstraction mankind has built to be able to load the Google homepage: For non-technologists, this is all a black box. That is a great suc...
AMD is Not the Answer 17 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
Every so often, we get requests to make Ember.js support AMD (asynchronous module definition). Until today, I had yet to hear anyone articulate why the advantages outweighed the (in my opinion) many d...
Tilde’s Pairing Setup 3 Jan 2012 | 09:28 am
Yehuda Katz and I spend the majority of our time pair programming on client projects and on our open source projects like Ember.js. As in any profession, it’s important to be “foaming at the mouth cra...
