Archive for the 'Nostalgia' Category

iPhone 0.9

Monday, January 29th, 2007

TUAW points us to a a choice Newton video, from 1993. In spite of some dated production qualities, this video could serve as a template for marketing the greatest features of the iPhone. Syncing, address books, To Dos, “instant messages.” Lots of features ripe for comparison with the iPhone and other modern devices. It even […]

A Glance Back

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Have you ever noticed how faulty the brain’s mechanism for detecting “freshness” can be? If you’re anything like me, you find yourself foolishly clinging to the belief that something is new, long past its certain staleness. For instance, I still think of The Cure’s Friday I’m In Love as “their new song,” almost fifteen years […]

The Road Less Traveled

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Last year, Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software wrote a powerful blog entry describing the 1068 days that elapsed between his setting out to be a full-time indie software developer, and achieving that goal. Paul Kafasis recently redirected my attention to that post, and commented that it would be interesting to hear more stories of […]

Vintage Code

Monday, May 8th, 2006

I got sent down a path of nostalgic code review today. After spotting Wouldja Software’s RoboNuts, I couldn’t help but wonder if the source to my implementation of the same game from more than 10 years ago was still on my computer. I was beginning to think it was lost forever to some floppy disk […]