@stevesi - Twitter Profile Analysis

Wow. I'm all for progress and recognize "amusement parks" might be from a different era but still super sad to think about GA closing. https://t.co/PLzShpLYE6

In a survey of the top 500 ranked companies, 11% of CEOs used a personal computer…in December 1984. Source: Personal Computing Magazine March 1985.

Quarterly PSA of a name change. https://t.co/fJolGkzat3

New in Hardcore Software—“Reorg! Why Are We Together, Exactly?” // If you’re into org structure, understanding product units v. functional orgs and more this section is for you. (Short thread today, just head to the post) 1/5 https://t.co/QLQxYZZT9U

The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye // Just a thought. Please leave this in the swamp. Do not bring it back to land civilization. https://t.co/d95ps0fb5o

This is not unlike the end-point of cross-platform. You build a cross-platform library that you think can run across any cloud but really you are competing directly with all operating systems, but have no paying customers and 1/100th the engineering. https://t.co/sdjLZ9L5Tc

Home Computers: Will They Sell This Time? —BusinessWeek Sept 1990 In all of 1990, almost 20M PCs were sold *worldwide*: 16.5M IBM PCs 1.4M Macintosh 750K Amiga 700K C64 300K Atari 100K Apple ][ 12K NeXT etc.

‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’ in McKinsey Quarterly https://t.co/3YzOFqjtmL via @McKinsey

Software upgrade for 19-year-old martian water-spotter https://t.co/apbSsLrJbN

Happy #InternationalYogaDay 🙏 Walking to hot yoga. It is hotter outside than inside the studio though.

‘Build’ Review: Failure Is the Mother of Invention—The engineer who played a key role in the iPod, iPhone and other game-changing devices lays out the messy blueprint for tech success. // Need a good & readable book? My review of @tfadell's memoir/how-to https://t.co/0XwyBAJYyB

I drove past some sort of Mini lovers club riding in a column on the freeway and they all had custom license plates.

Why America Will Lose Semiconductors, by @dylan522p https://t.co/R9LHSuEP7z

New today in Hardcore Software—086. The Memo (Part 2). Windows continued to struggle to finish Vista. I was busy mostly on my own trying to figure out what comes next. Last week I shared the analysis half of a memo I wrote only for three ppl. Part 2 1/ https://t.co/cWbljVtmN6

The US needs a common charger, Dems say https://t.co/LD9r2SyNYU // US Dems really pushing the big issues.

50 years ago today Atari was incorporated. I look back and marvel at how little we knew and the journey it would lead us.

There’s a lot of talk lately about the possibility of a prolonged financial downturn, reminiscent of 2008. 2008 was a difficult time for many people.

Tech advances faster in 1990s @forallmankind_ alt-history! All us @Apple nerds had a blast creating (& playing with) our modified Newton’s removable camera & video calls! Props even fit an #iPhone 12 Pro Max inside. The #Newton POV angles in the show were #shotoniphone #Apple https://t.co/wASQcG7Qw9

When you buy a record or CD, you own it, thanks to copyright's "first sale" principle. I have criticisms of copyright law, but at least it's created by a democratically accountable legislature. When you buy a digital download, your use is governed by private ToS, not law. 1/

My upstairs neighbour died during Covid. Flat left untouched by the housing association for a year. Clearance company arrived this morning and were about to chuck George’s entire portfolio away. Hundreds of beautiful op art drawings.

The original iPhone had no virtual memory. Some folks came up with a system named “jetsam”. Since we only showed one app at a time, we terminated background programs when memory got low. Those programs would relaunch rather than resume when brought back to the front. https://t.co/csFKiSgSGF

Some potential things likely to happen in next 3-18 months for tech startup world Likely does not mean “100% certainty” but base case seems to be in motion today

I wonder if the inventor of paper straws ever considered that they would be in prolonged contact with liquid.

This conversation truly could’ve kept going… @lexfridman thank you for having me on. Really enjoyed getting to do this in person in ATX too! See you again soon! 🙏 #BUILD #Buildbook https://t.co/2uedSrj7OH

Goodbye internet explorer. Enjoy my little doodle…

Someone built a real tombstone of Internet Explorer in Korea. "He was a good tool to download other browsers." https://t.co/42vnkoQshd

You Won’t Use That Cool Feature ’revising widely used software like Windows and Microsoft Office was like ordering pizza for a billion people.’ @stevesi & ‘options that often make no sense for normals… “bloatware”’ https://t.co/40UWDyReBu #tech #computers #software

England in the summer is a series of Windows desktops.

It has been just four years since Apple famously ridiculed the idea of ‘merging’ iPadOS and macOS, but boy have they come a loooot closer in that time. iPad grew mouse & trackpad support, external storage, context menus, windowing, external displays, even third-party drivers

10 must-have Excel skills everyone should know: 📊

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