It’s looking like countries with better worker protections saw zero layoffs.

It’s worse. Max I’m seeing is 9 weeks.

Yikes. Meanwhile, the people who took the buyout last year got 6 months (or 9 if they waited for the second round).

The API is "open", the source code for the server running the simperium.com syncing service is not.

As far as I know, open sourcing the server is something Simperium wishes to do when it's feasible.

Simperium Syncing Protocol: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...

I understand that, but I am talking about now. There's no point (other than marketing and free labor purposes, which is what I'm criticizing) in open sourcing their client app when the server is not open source. What purpose does it serve? I mean, how do you expect to use this code other than hooking up to Simplenote?

I remember this company called Layer, they "open sourced" their "messaging UI framework", and I first thought it was something like JSQMessageViewController where you can just take the library and really build your own chat app, but turns out it's just a shell to connect to their layer.com server. Again, what's the point? I can't help but wonder what's going on in these people's minds when I think of all the time they would have taken to clean up code and prepare to announce their open source.

Someone might feel inclined to implement their own server that is compatible with the client.

Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.

Someone that motivated would be better off building their own client as well. In case of Simplenote, server is the most important part, client is just a thin wrapper.

What exactly do you mean by offline mode? No syncing to "the cloud" at all?

I undestand "offline mode" as to be able to edit a note without connection and sync later.

I use (and pay) Evernote because of this. You can edit and create notes while disconnected.

Simplenote does this.

These are exactly the features Simperium provides.

Simplenote is built on top of Simperium.

In fact, Simperium was originally created to provide the syncing features of Simplenote and then generalized to work as a service for anyone who wants to sync structured data.

I have implemented most of the Simperium server protocol in the `node-simperium` library (https://github.com/Simperium/node-simperium/pull/22).

It's definitely a very rough work in progress but I have used it successfully to deploy my own simplenote server that works with all the clients.

Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server

It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.

Protocol for reference: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...

-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch disables the feature where tapping the phone's status bar scrolls content back to the top. That has been a showstopper for most of the things I have worked on.

True. I wonder if there's a fix for this in PhoneGap, at least.

One workaround that was functional but subpar experience-wise:

Put a transparent UIView over the status bar and wire it up to call a javascript function on your UIWebView using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString.

That sounds like a bug. Have you submitted a radar on it?

You can fake it with some pretty simple Javascript.

I have tried many a workaround, all quickly reveal a pretty crappy non-native experience.

Since when were vertical scrollbars bad?

They are not inherently bad. It's just a bad idea to have a header graphic take up half of the screen, pushing most of the content below the fold...

Oh, lord. Go do layout for a newspaper. There IS NO FOLD... http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of

Yes, there is. The fold is exactly where my browser viewport ends.

Worse yet, google says that most people don't look beyond the third result. So the mental fold is even higher than that.