Congrats to my buddy Inman for his awesome little web stats app making it to three years old, in the face of some really heavy competition from some company called “Google,” who’s product comes in a the low low price of “free,” whereas Mint costs something. I think this is a real win for design. Analytics these days has a very decent design, but Mint is really filling that niche for people who truly care about design and aesthetics. Here’s to (at least) three more years! Visit site »
Shaun Inman’s clever little search bookmarklet is extensible and customizable. Simple and clean. I dig it. Visit site »
“The strong have always been tasked with carrying the weak. In the case of the ongoing X-UA-Compatible bluster, the strong are the savvy standardistas. The burden? A single meta tag or http header. Can we move on now?”
Exactly the point I’ve been trying to make about this, only said about 100 times more elegantly and succinctly. Well-put, Shaun. Visit site »
Even though I don’t like the crowd-sourcing, I”m still not above suggesting everyone go and vote for this panel. I’d love to see it, myself! Visit site »
Shaun gives the best instructions I’ve seen yet on how to do all sort of nifty hackery on your iPhone. And I say “your iPhone,” because I wouldn’t dare try it on mine. Visit site »
This sounds like a good one. Lopp made a great moderator last year, and his panel this year includes FeedDemon creator Nick Bradburry, Mint man Shaun Inman, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, and one yet-unnamed Mac developer. These are all guys who are acting primarily as developers, but definitely have a strong sense of design apparent in their work — should be interesting. Visit site »
Jason Lynes is perturbed at Inman’s Mint 2 marketing machine. Which is, of course, amusing, since a bunch of people were perturbed about the same thing on upon Mint’s initial release. People will never believe it, I’m sure, but Shaun did the same thing anyone would do if they were releasing an app: he asked his friends to beta test it for him. There was nothing more to the agreement. Us beta testers were never promised a free anything, and were never asked to publicly rave, defend, or link to the product or its author. Some of us did so, because we like it, but certainly not because Shaun asked. Jason Lynes generally seems like a good guy and is a talented designer, but this post is nothing but a bunch of sour grapes (and, frankly, it’s not the first post of his that’s come off that way). Visit site »
Shaun is such a fucking tease. Visit site »
I’ve seen it. It rocks. You want it. Visit site »
“When I redesigned ShaunInman.com a lot of bile found its way into my inbox and Mint referrers feed. All that unsolicited aggression is demotivating. And this is just a personal site. Imagine having to sift through that as a member of a team responsible for the most common browser in the world. ” Well said, Shaun. All too often on the Internet we forget that there are real people on the other end of the line. Visit site »
Inman re-vamps his two-week old redesign to b more colorful, more sexy, and overall, more “Inman.” Gold star (as .sara would say). Visit site »
Shaun redesigns again, and it’s nothing like everything he’s done before. I love that Shaun is taking the web designer’s personal website back where it belongs — to a place where you experiment with new ideas, try crazy things, and don’t be afraid to do something that may or may not work. Visit site »