If you have blogging software, you’ll often have a bunch of old draft posts, which just keep getting more and more outdated, greet you every time you open the app.
My version of this is two posts, “10 Things I Was Proud of as an Apple Engineer” and “10 Things I Wasn’t Proud of as an Apple Engineer”, started in 2010 after I left Apple.
I finished the first one, but the references in it are too old to post now. And I didn’t even get to 10 on the second; I was only able to think of 9. So I’m just going to publish the lists as-is, for a bit of nostalgia:
Proud:
99-cent songs
No-DRM music
WebKit
Environmentally-friendly progress on hardware
Infrastructure-improvements-only Snow Leopard
OS X-based mobile strategy
iOS itself
iOS’s delayed, done-right multitasking introduction
iPad
Clang
Not Proud:
“100 features” nonsense
Increasingly cheap WWDC amenities
Killing WWDC feedback sessions
Breaking own HI guidelines
Ongoing BugReporter crappiness
Suing bloggers
Suing competitors
App Store review arbitrariness
Corporate war with Google
Weaponized Fluff 