I was curious about this. I’ve always used WiFi, but I’m trying Bluetooth as a test.

There’s no longer anywhere to store files that don’t need to be backed up (or can’t be, by the new policy) but shouldn’t be randomly deleted.

What a mess. Hopefully that’s high enough priority to make it into the .1 release. The workaround in the meantime would seem to be to keep a reasonable bit of free space on your device.

Well… crap.

These are quite good… (thanks Shawn)

This is when I discovered that growing rapidly teaches you one thing well: how communication continually finds new and interesting ways to break down.

If you aren’t subscribed to Rands in Repose, shame on you.

That one last thing that Google doesn’t do well is Platforms. We don’t understand platforms. We don’t “get” platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.

An interesting and thought provoking read.

As far as I’m aware, the Monktoberfest is the only conference that began its life as a punchline.

As an aside, it seems odd that Markdown editors and preview apps are suddenly all the rage: it’s been nigh-on seven years since Gruber & Schwartz unveiled the format, to immediate acclaim and widespread adoption.

It’s the app store economy. These types of small utility apps that are specific in use, relatively straightforward to build, and can be priced low enough for impulse buys are tailor made for the app store.

I had the same idea about a second day with an unconference format. Or perhaps speakers in the mornings of both days, with breakout sessions afterwards. The quality of the voices present was amazing.