Functional programming is hardly new. I remember coding a lot of LISP when I was at university in the early 90's. That was 25 years ago, and the language was already quite a bit older than my college-age self. The advantages of FP have long been recognized. Successful software development…
TechCrunch's Jon Evans offers a useful survey of the reactions elicited by Apple's decision to support content-blocking browser extensions in iOS 9. Notwithstanding the breast-beating of Marco Arment (who removed his hit ad blocker from the App Store after two days because it "just didn't feel good"), I agree wholeheartedly…
Today Adblock Plus, the world's leading ad block vendor, is launching the first true ad-blocking browser for iPhone. We are proud that their browser is based on Kitt, an amazingly extensible iPhone browser that we have been developing for the past three years. Last year we announced our Kitt web…
Reddit is great for finding content that interests you. The best thing about it are the vibrant conversations that spring up around popular articles. These regularly get dozens or even hundreds of comments. But as an author, getting a post on Reddit is a bittersweet experience. On the one hand,…
I was chatting today with a European freelance developer who is thinking about setting up a software agency. He asked me if I had any advice for him after building Salsita from a guy in his bedroom to a 40 person company with 25 full-time developers in a little over…
