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The Barley team had the opportunity to sponsor the beer and pizza for a WordPress Meet up in Sydney, Australia earlier in the week. It was about 36 hours before we officially…
Inspired by Shawn Blanc's post wherein he thanked the people that helped make The Sweet Setup a reality I thought I'd take a few moments to thank everyone that helped make Barley…
It has been a pleasure to follow Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere as they attempt to complete "the longest unsupported polar journey in history". Here's Ben, remarking on Day 31 of their journey:…
App.net, the Twitter-clone turned app services turned file sharing turned something only a developer can understand…. now has released something that should be a huge hit. They call it Broadcast. In the…
Have you ever had an idea for a product or service? If you're like me you've probably had a million ideas; thousands were crap, hundreds were so-so, a few were great, but…
Today Shawn Blanc launched The Sweet Setup, a resource to find the very best applications for your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. There are so many fantastic apps and other tools to help…
Bitcoin is going a little nuts this week. But the price at which a bitcoin exchanges at isn't the only factor by which you should value the currency. Far, far from it….
Keeping software up-to-date is really important. There are security flaws that get patched, performance and battery improvements that can save both time and energy. Not to mention new features, bug fixes, etc….
Late again this week. However, I did manage to get this post out the door. Here are some interesting things I saw this week. Noisli – Need some nice background noise while you…
I'm still amazed at how many great things pass over my desk each week even though we've been so busy lately at work. I love how these posts remind me, each week,…
The experience that Jay Huang had happens far, far too often. It happened to me at two companies. It is absolutely ludicrous. I mean everyone was leaving after 8 hours a day,…
It has been a busy few weeks at Plain. But even busy weeks yield interesting things online. Here are a few: Video: Slowmo iPhone 5s video on Instagram – Ryan Pernofski shares…
Shawn Blanc spends a few minutes chatting about whether or not you still need 1Password after upgrading to iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks? With Mavericks support for storing passwords and credit…
This has been an amazing week at work. I'm very much looking forward to sharing what we're up to in the future but for now, some links. Comet ISON – Did you…
Mark Boulton in the appropriately titled WYSIWTFFTWOMG! One of the other pain points of a complex dynamic website, where ‘pages’ are created with bits of content from all over the place is…
I've read less on my computer this week than many, many weeks due to travel and busy work getting in the way. So this week might be lighter than others. Our Culture…
Fall is in full swing and the leaves are all but gone. This time of year has been torn between the desire to be outdoors, soaking up what is left of the…
Jean-Louis Gassée postulates that it is a good thing for Apple that pundits and industry types constantly spell out their doom. I recently experienced a small epiphany: I think the never-ending worry…
DistroKid allows anyone to quickly upload a music track to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Amazon. First track is free, just $19.99 per year thereafter. This seems like a steal of a…
I'm not a great programmer. In fact, at this point in my career I wouldn't advise paying me to write any complex code. But I'm an excellent hacker. I love to chip…
Yesterday Chris Dixon tweeted a link to this thought-provoking blog post by Cal Newport about needing downtime to truly get into deep work. I agree with much of it, such as this…
There was no link list last week because I was at the beach. And this week I'm a few days late because our team had a half-day with some festivities. My apologies….
Or, at least it shouldn't. And it is becoming less and less critical which platform you invest in. In a fair review of the iPhone 5S from Andrew Kim whom, as always,…
There is a growing sentiment that WordPress – though incredibly well supported and ubiquitous – is simply far too complex for some projects and for some customers. Obviously, I think so too. That's…
Last week's list was so rich with links that I had to hold a few back and work them into this week's post. Some weeks there are just too many great things…
Wayne Barz, on knowing your market, the needs of that market and thoroughly understanding your competition and how they address that market and those needs: The fact that a $6 billion market…
Four weeks ago I decided to follow in Om Malik and Heather Armstrong's shoes and create a digest of some of the more interesting things I saw throughout the week. After four…
Vacations are weird. We work really hard before vacation so that we can, you know, go on vacation, and we work really hard after vacation. I'm doing the latter part of that…
In case you missed it, Apple just held a press event to showcase the updates to iOS coming next week, two new iPhones, and the fact that iWork for iOS is now…
Coast is a new web browser built for the iPad by Opera. (App Store link) Why is there a back button in iPad browsers? The iPad is, after all, designed for touch….