I can relate all too well with this tweet by Jason Kottke. Being first is always nice, but it is equally nice to get some sleep, to actually go out and do things IRL, and to not worry about ephemeral crap that no one will care about 24 hours from now—or indeed two hours from [...]
I’m not picking on Gothamist, because this isn’t really their fault, but the standard password-recovery system that Movable Type (G’mist’s blogging app—and ours at Serious Eats) uses to send you your lost cypher is a bit logic-challenged. In order to get my password, I have to remember my username and some secret recovery phrase I [...]
For the past couple of weeks in Serious Eats Talk, I’ve been meddling with Talk topic titles, trying to help make them more precise and reflective of what’s being asked in the thread. In some cases, I truly think my meddling is helpful. For instance, “Need a butcher in Phoenix” is a better title than [...]
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I’ve probably complained about this before, but I just don’t understand why Delicious doesn’t use a tagging protocol similar to Flickr‘s. When I tag on Flickr, I can use multiple words and string them together as one tag using quotation marks, e.g., “New Madrid” will function as a single tag. On Delicious, tags are “space [...]