Three posts by Marco Arment that you should read if you are an app developer: Web Hosting for App Developers, What Did I Just Learn?, and Wrong about home-hosting?.

Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder) share their thoughts about the future of online publishing (among other things).

Just finished watching Simple Made Easy, a talk by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, at The Strange Loop 2011 conference. Recommended (1 hour).

Simple has a core meaning, an understanding of which is critical to developing robust and flexible software. We should be simplifying the problem domain, and creating solutions by composing simple parts. Instead, we endure complexity, and pride ourselves in our ability to manage it. We can do better.

A one hour long interview with Stephen King.