Piatti del giorno 48

WWDC excitement is certainly tinged with more bittersweetness than last year’s.

• Auto Layout Performance on iOS - Everything costs something, including–it turns out–asking your phone to solve middling-sized simultaneous sets of linear equations to position stuff.¹
• Downfalls of Distributed Startups - Astute, and unlikely to be less important by this time next year, or the year after (and so on).
• RESTful thinking considered harmful - Exposing CRUD operations is not REST.
• Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years - In heavily-loaded servers as with, say, bridges: dramatic-looking engineering probably isn’t really (via Marco Arment).
• Usability checklist - A useful last-minute punch list for common usability goofs.
• Common Misconceptions About Touch - TL;DR: Minimum tap target is 8mm (not 44 “points”) and shouldn’t be closer together than 10mm on centre, minimum readable point size is bigger on a tablet because they’re usually farther from your eyes, and the touch target can and usually should be bigger than the visual target. (You should still read this, though).