Jay Robinson

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  • Is there a way to engage in this kind of behavior and not have it be like a rat pushing a button for a fix? Is there such a thing as calm ambient awareness that’s not overly tied up in your ego? Chris Muscarella on mobile phone notifications.

  • The realtime web has become a habit. It’s a twitch. I do it without thinking. More importantly, when I succumb to the reflex of checking it every few minutes or seconds, I do so at the expense of thinking. When is the last time you stood in line at a bank without checking your iPhone?…

  • A mobile interface is an interface for a moment. The goal isn’t deep consideration of a thing. The goal is instant assessment of, well, everything. When I pull my phone out of my pocket, I want to answer a fairly impossible question: “How has everything I care about in the online universe changed since I…

  • It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country…

  • The best attitude to have when trying to solve problems is that everything is negotiable. Scott Berkun, Problem Solving & Kobayashi Maru This is something I’ve always applied, naturally. I don’t think anyone taught I to me, it just works.

  • Invite a motorist for a bike ride through your city and you’ll be cycling with an urbanist by the end of the day. Even the most eloquent of lectures about livable cities and sustainable design can’t compete with the experience from atop a bicycle saddle. The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better…

  • For our team at ProcessMaker, design matters. With Sencha, we found a development group and a product with the same mantra. Check out what the developers at Colosa, Inc. had to say about using Ext JS to build ProcessMaker. (via Sencha’s Tumblr)

  • Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. Matthew Carter

  • There is a woman at work who loves to wear corduroy pants… you can always hear her coming. Trying to get my sister to use the Twitter.

  • WebKit2’s type renderer is hugely improved. (No need to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; ever again!) Dustin Curtis (Via WebKitBits)

  • The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by Motorola. Andy Ihnatko

  • Actually, film operates on a level much closer to music and to painting than to the printed word, and, of course, movies present the opportunity to convey complex concepts and abstractions without the traditional reliance on words. … an Alabama truck driver, whose views in every other respect would be extremely narrow, is able to…

  • Sencha Touch has quickly become the gold standard that other frameworks are measured against. Nice quote in this IBM whitepaper: “Mobile web application framework match-up” Via the Sencha tumblelog.

  • [Steve] Jobs’s personal cure for relieving fatigue: massaging his feet in the flush of a toilet bowl. From Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz. Well look at that, you learn something new every day.

  • [Steve] Jobs’s personal cure for relieving fatigue: massaging his feet in the flush of a toilet bowl. From Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz. Well look at that, you learn something new every day.