Is your new thing so fucking amazing that people are going to install your app and give it a chance? Statistically speaking, unless you are best friend with a famous celebrity or Apple decides to feature your app in one of their top categories or search results, you are pretty much fucked
Tag: ephemera
The app boom is over – Recode
The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Now it is over.
Even the very biggest app publishers are seeing their growth slow down or stop altogether. Most people have all the apps they want and/or need. They’re not looking for new ones.
The challenges of formatting currency data
Localization and internationalization of an app or site it’s a challenge that’s not specially hard on the technical side, but that it can ceirtanly become difficult for social and behavioral aspects, such as our own etnocentrism, lack of standardized standards, or even standards that conflict with actual use or user expectations.
The development team at Etsy identified three attributes that affected currency formatting: the currency, user location and user language. Their post on How Etsy Formats Currency shows how to correctly format currency and some of the practical decisions that are involved in the process.
Using OAuth2 to make authenticated calls to WP REST API
This will probably come in handy on a few weeks, so I better save this for later…
Sigmund Freud’s couch
99% invisible tells the story of how Sigmund Freud’s couch came to be the symbol of psychoanalysis… even if it ceased to be as widely used as one might think based on movies and cartoons.
It’s time to dispel the myths about nuclear power
It’s time to dispel the myths about nuclear power lists some of the actual facts on the incidents on Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants. Something to really consider if you’re really interested in diminishing the participation of fossil fuels on electric energy production.
What happens when shit happens
There’s a very entertaining and educational thread going on Hacker News about data loss and disaster recovery that came about an actual, ongoing, massive system outage at Gliffy… I’m sure everyone has a similar story to share.