techese 4.0

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If you checked out the site in the past 24 hours, you may have noticed that things seem a little different. It’s a subtle visual change, as the general design stayed fairly similar, but this is definitely a brand new techese.

Without further ado, welcome to techese 4.0. This is the first real visual refresh since November 2011.

But it is so much more than a visual refresh. There are plenty of functional updates as techese has been updated from Squarespace 5 to Squarespace 6.

Here are a few of the changes you’ll enjoy:

  • Responsive design for mobile devices (!!!)
  • Linked List items will now use Daring Fireball style title links. These are signified with an → to the right of the title. (I’m not updating the back catalog, so this is from now on).
  • Simple liking of a post is now available using the little heart below each post.
  • Images now use a lightbox if you want to see them larger.

And a couple things to note:

  • Permalinks are found below every post by clicking the date.
  • The RSS feed has changed to http://techese.net/articles?format=rss, which I have done a 301 redirect for. In my testing, things like the soon-to-perish Google Reader made the switch just fine, but you may want to update the address anyway.

That’s all I have for now. Enjoy the update.

Pat Dryburgh's ‘Preparing for John Siracusa's Review of Mountain Lion’

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John Siracusa is Internet famous for his massively exhaustive reviews of OS X releases. Last year, Pat Dryburgh made a video aptly named Preparing for John Siracusa’s Review of OS X Lion. It is hands-down one of the top five funniest videos I have seen.

This year, Pat called upon some fellow heavyweights in Mac culture to produce Preparing for John Siracusa’s Review of Mountain Lion. It is ridiculous and awesome. Ridiculously awesome.

Also, be sure to go read John Siracusa’s Review of Mountain Lion. It weighs in at 26,000 words, so you may want to send that to Instapaper.