My good friend @npjester will be blogging about his foray into ChromeOS at http://www.npjester.com.

Be sure to check out his thoughts in the coming weeks/months.

It seems Square is taking a (design) cue from the iMac.

I must admit, I’m a huge fan of the card swipe mechanism being built in to the stand.

On a side, note: Is it wrong that I judge businesses that don’t use/support mobile payments? One of my favorite coffee shops uses Square for their payments. I’m impressed when I see businesses stepping out of the technological comfort of existing point of sale systems.

Bravo, Square, for pioneering the way forward with mobile POS systems.

Sold out in less than 2 minutes this year.

I think it’s time for a new approach.

I don’t like the idea of breaking up the event into different date ranges. Summer is a good time for developers to gather together and re-charge. Plus it makes sense with Apple’s current product release cycle (though honestly that could change without a moment’s notice).

Maybe breaking up sessions by category into different smaller locations in downtown San Francisco? Offer live streaming to remote locations? (Austin, Chicago, New York, London, Beijing and Sydney come to mind as prospective locations.)

“The impact has been … something very close to a disaster,” Ackman said.

I hear a fruit company is hiring.

Facebook home would be a great experience if we actually lived in the world Facebook thinks we live in.

Unfortunately, not all of my “friends” are professional photographers. Plus most of my Facebook experience is riddled with shared Buzzfeed links and low-res memes.

Even more, Zuckerburg mentioned that Facebook home would absolutely show suggested posts. The Facebook way of shoving ads into my social experience.

What I love most is all of the promo material for Facebook home. Not a single ad.

It’s about connecting with people, they say.

Looking to get started with Ruby on Rails development? Using OS X?

Look no further.

@scotty82 sent this to me today while at work.

Because when you get right down to it, everyone has dreams, and you deserve the chance—hell, you owe it to yourself—to pursue those dreams when you only have enough energy to change out of your work clothes and make yourself a half-assed dinner before passing out.

As someone who spends most of my time outside of work honing web development know-how: this resonates.