I am not sure what is says about me, or our industry in general, but I just saw this in my reader :
Copy and Paste is so Yesterday
from The GitHub Blog by mojombo
Getting a clone URL into your clipboard is now just a single click away!
And what was my response…
“oooohhhhh”
umm What ! I get excited about a little-baby-feature-lit like this that is going to save me less than a second, and what is more it is not an operation that I am going to do over and over, what am I excited about ?
What makes it worse is I am an obsessive keyboard users, I avoid my mouse like the plague ( unless it is faster is the rare case ).
Am I just being geeky or is there more to it.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that, it is great when you see something that has been designed, with clearly no other intent other than to make your life a little bit easier.
Perhaps it is that its one of those really small things that you know does not need to be done, and there are considerably higher priority things that could have and should have been worked on, but because this was – it feels like a gift.
Perhaps it is because you get the feeling that the people behind this are using the tool too, and there is not a just a giant money making machine driven by ethereal thinking over hyped by an aggressive marketing department. It feels real.
Perhaps I am just a geek – but I think small and simple things show the heart behind a system, which is profound.
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