December 4, 2008
Mibbit is an awesome example of a guy who found a niche, really thought about what it was missing, and filled it expertly. Every time I see this app, I’m secretly jealous I didn’t write it.
Github – social media meets coding. Instantly makes rubyforge look like tucows.com circa 1996. A good example of filling a need you didn’t know existed. Getting insight into others’ development projects via ‘following’ developers and projects – or via RSS – turns out to be oddly addictive, and turns up neat little things like this and this, which couldn’t have really existed before the github model except as a fractured melodramatic irc log somewhere. I don’t have a pressing need for any private repos anytime soon but am compelled to upgrade my account out of sheer gratitude.
Lastly, I’ve finally checked out jQuery, and can now say: I get why all the fuss.