John Gruber's thoughts about Opera and Apple

In one way, Apple's iApps make it hard for independent (3rd party) software developers. However, those free applications do raise the bar. If you're creating an mp3 player for the mac, it had better be as good as iTunes. It probably should be better, if it has any hope.

Conversation with Guido Van Rossum, creator of Python

I enjoyed the part about Programming At Python Speed.

For example, one of the things that annoys me about writing AppleScript is that it feels like I'm writing a large play every time I try to write a script. A play or a novel. It's just so verbose sometimes.

An example:

set myVariable to "hello world"

vs

myVariable = "hello world"