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I got a nice easter present yesterday: The Typer  got reviewed on the Rails App Week by Darren at The Web2.0 Show
They nailed it right:  it’s simple by purpose, and i’d dare to say that it has been a big experiment for me in building a clean and simple interface that makes sense for the [...]

I read today the humanized blog and I find it’s (very) true what Aza Raskin wrote in Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages: the best interace should aim to minimize the interruptions in what the user is doing.
When you are “in the zone”, especially when writing or designinig or programming, any interruption in your flow of [...]

TheTyper has been open since the first of october, but it still lacked a real announcement on the blog. So here it is.
You can go to TheTyper and register for your free account. You’ll then be able to start wiriting your notes online within an environment built to help you concentrate on the act of [...]

The code for thetyper is essentially done, but i have decided to wait a couple of days before turning the switch and deploying the code just to make it rest (and to do a final bug hunt and docs polishing).
It will have a bunch of new features, which i felt were needed to make it [...]

I like to use “simple” text editors rather then word processors to write, I use TextMate on OSX and TextPad on Windows, adopting the OPML editor when i need to support and track structure. But when I saw Writeroom about a month ago I was struck with its beautiful design and essential feature set, I [...]