I love Mou. I could use textwrangler for markdown work, but Mou's simple interface and live previews make it a snap. It's a great middle point between a general text editor and a markdown focused document editor.
A designated asshole is nearly mandatory, especially for mixed technical audiences and issues where someone can have an [opinion on the bike shed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality).
Most people can't fill this role because they don't like conflict or have a reputation to protect (real or imaginary) but conferences should always assign a moderator to play the jerk.
If you're not listening to Hypercritical, then I probably don't have too many suggestions. [StackExchange](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/) podcasts are nice, but sometimes insidebaseball-y.
>I fear what will happen is once Marco's child is born, half of every Build & Analyze episode will be about Dan and Marco's children and how they manage their time.
Yeah. That'll be a mess. I'm a big 5by5 nerd, so I listen to almost all the main podcasts on there. And when I need advice about time management, I'll listen to Merlin. I don't need a half assed Merlin impression from someone with no employees or bosses.
You are right about it being their show. It's just a shame because I think it fills up a time slow in the 5by5 schedule which could be better utilized by finding someone who wants to talk about development topics. Without that discipline everything devolves into life-coach wankery.
Sure but the biggest claim I could make from listening to BnA is that marco is kind of a dick. I'm sure that a good 30% of the software I used is written by someone who is kind of a dick. He's not Pol Pot.
I was also frustrated by the sort of arrogant response to all the complaints about non-development topics. It's not like we can't have interesting shows about technical topics! Hypercritical and The Critical Path are proof enough with the same host.
And I wouldn't even mind technical topics about coffee or thermostats (ok maybe I would mind about that). What kills me is the half-baked life coach bullshit that 1/3rd of Build and Analyze is turning in to. I don't need another person telling me how I should value my time. I read those posts from Joel on Software in 2004 just like Marco did.
WP article is now updated. The techcrunch piece cited HN but the author also contacted Stanford faculty. Gamasutra also ran a short piece. The article is no longer protected if you guys want to update it or clean it up.
I reverted it again. I feel terrible doing that but the alternative is sourcing our article from personal communications or a tweet. Have yet to see a reference which is reliable (in the wikipedia sense) or not ultimately derived from the original edit to wikipedia.
That was me. I saw the laughing squid link, followed it here, then discovered that their ultimate reference was the wikipedia article. I'm keeping tabs on the news so if an article pops up I'll add it or unprotect the article.