This changes everything.

The 2012 winning recipe is the one I’ve been using the most ever since I tried it over a year ago. I haven’t tried the 2013 winning recipe yet, it’s a bit more fussy — apparently it’s all the rage to hold your AeroPress at a 45-degree angle and slowly rotate it during bloom and brew time as a way to gently agitate the grounds. When I was a kid we drank drip coffee and liked it!

This set pretty much sums up my week in San Francisco: drinking coffee, hanging out with friends, sharing ideas, and encouraging each other in the projects we’re working on.

All shots taken with the Olympus E-PL5 and Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 of course.

(And while you’re at it, check out the pictures I took while in jail.)

New single from John Mayer (which everyone now knows I’m a fan of). Paper Doll is a good, classic Mayer jam — somewhat laid back and in the pocket. It’s on iTunes and Rdio.

Anyway, you know he’s on tour this summer, right? I’ll be at his Kansas City show.

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Matt Drance on iOS 7:

Apple has kept all the right things, and built a new experience celebrating the values behind them. iOS 7 is truly the sum of its parts. On their own, many of these new elements — parallax, translucency, animations, motion — might seem out of place, even gimmicky. Together, they put forth a clear vision, one that’s reinforced by one of the best marketing videos I think Apple has ever made.

Tom Witkin (via MacStories):

I’m elated to share that I, along with Poster, will be joining Automattic. I’ll be working with the mobile team where I’ll be both designing and coding.

Poster is one of my most-used iOS apps — it is how I post links and articles to this site from my iPad and iPhone. Its brilliant support for custom fields and URL schemes has been an incredible aid to my ability to work from my iPad or iPhone.

Alas, due to the acquisition, Poster is no longer for sale in the app store. I will of course continue to use it, and Tom has pledged to continue to maintain it. But there will be no future development of Poster.

However, on the other side of this story we see some very promising and exciting potential. It was just 6 months ago that Automattic acquired Simplenote, my most-used note taking app. And now they’ve acquired Poster, my favorite WordPress app.

Which means it’s very possible that in the future, the official WordPress iOS app will also be the best WordPress iOS app.

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Matt Gemmell has an excellent take on iOS 7 along with some great comparisons to iOS 6:

I think it’s an enormous improvement, and a typically opinionated move.

Speaking of setting fire to the past versions of iOS and starting afresh, Stephen Hackett’s likening of iOS 7 to the 2002 iMac G4 is a brilliant example:

If you remember back to 2002 when Apple released the iMac G4, it was a huge departure from the G3-powered machines before it. However, looking at the whole timeline, it fits with the overall direction the product was heading in. The move to the LCD was a clear forerunner to the iMac G5, whose shape is still present in the iMacs of today.

When Tim Cook said that iOS 7 was the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone, he wasn’t kidding. The UI is of course drastically different, but things like background-updating and better car integration are huge changes.

Marco Arment:

Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything’s in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that’s crowded on iOS 6, and you’re one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and cheaper to develop than most competing apps.

See also what Mike Monteiro said to Om Malik:

It’s a breath of fresh air. Where was Apple going with the current crap? This opens up all manner of possibilities. I’m excited because it’s new. And fresh. The Forstall crap went to its logical conclusion. Any design system that can no longer be extended is death. The new stuff is a fresh start. Eventually it’ll die too. But right now I’m excited about how it can grow and be extended. It’s not perfect. But, as a designer, that excites me. As a consumer? I dunno.

A huge congrats to Coda 2, Letterpress, and Yahoo Weather among others.

Coda 2 on Mac and Diet Coda on the iPad are two of my all-time favorite apps. I wrote a somewhat detailed review of the them last spring when they shipped.

Matt Gemmell, almost a month ago:

iOS 7 will be unveiled soon, and rumours abound that Jony Ive’s influence will push it further along the spectrum towards a flatter, more elegant, more elemental presentation style — a ‘backlash’ against skeuomorphic overindulgence, as the press would gleefully have us believe, as if it were all simply a matter of personal taste. iOS 7 may indeed have such an appearance, but anti-skeu won’t be the sentiment behind it.

Currently, I think that there’s an inherent tension between iOS and its devices. The aesthetics of the OS have never quite fulfilled the stylistic promise of the hardware design, and I think that’s probably intolerable to Jony Ive.