I don’t think anyone can dispute the significance Sir Ive has had to Apple.

Remember when an agreement to use micro-USB as the standard interface for EU mobile phone chargers was signed by Apple, Nokia, Samsung and many others back in 2009? Well, the iPhone 4S can be charged via micro-USB, but it still requires its own proprietary connector. And it’s sold separately.

Adhering to standards but still making money off accessories. Genius.

On the Gizmodo iPhone leak:

“Hi, this is Steve. I really want my phone back.”

He wasn’t demanding. He was asking. And he was charming and he was funny. I was half-naked, just getting back from surfing, but I managed to keep my shit together.

The single best remembrance piece I’ve read on Jobs.

We started Panic with two things: $500, and a love of the Mac. We had no idea what we were doing. Fortunately, someone else did.

R.I.P., Steve.

• Eurogamer has an excellent article on Axel Gembe, the boy responsible for leaking the code of Half-Life 2 onto the Internet back in 2004.
• Conan’s parody of the iPad 2 is hilarious.
• The Twitter Engineering Blog has a post detailing how they made a faster garbage collector for Ruby by adding an additional heap.
• The Khronos Group released the final version of their WebGL 1.0 specification today.