Faith in eventually
Jason Fried in a post from September 2014: Remember that what you’re making is in a perpetual state of almost right up until the end. Great post. And boy is he right….
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What is Code?
Paul Ford, in a tome-of-a-post for Bloomberg/Business Week: There are 11 million professional software developers on earth, according to the research firm IDC. (An additional 7 million are hobbyists.) That’s roughly the…
100 words 009
The best days are filled with variety. Variety helps to break up the day and keep me moving and productive. Today started with some programming to finishing up a client project. Then,…
100 words 008
Yesterday I missed the opportunity to drop a James Bond joke. 🙁 For a over a year I’ve owned a GoPro Hero3. I love this little camera. However, for the passed 5…
100 words 007
I washed the dishes this afternoon and when I got to my least favorite dish to wash, the silverware, I was reminded of this post I wrote in March 2011. Rather than…
100 words 006
For years, well over a decade and a half, I worked at night and on the weekend. Many people do this and they like to do it. However, several years ago —…
100 words 005
Jurassic Park was the first book that I read because I wanted to rather than because I had to. I was 11 when I read the book and 12 when the movie…
Twitter’s Save Button
Chris Sacca’s infamous blog post on What Twitter Can Be ranged from topics about its apps, the platform itself, and what Wall Street thinks of the company. There are several bits I…
100 words 004
Yesterday Kyle and I had an outdoor lunch with a local entrepreneur who wanted to throw two ideas at us. The first idea was a throwaway. At least he thought so. When…
100 words 003
I feel like there is a groove being hit. At Plain, Kyle and I are getting better at our work every day. With every improvement of our business comes a little bit…
100 words 002
Isaac Newton’s third law of motion is: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on…
100 words 001
What can be said in 100 words? I remember signing up for Twitter in November 2006 and wondering; what can be said in 140 characters? I had no idea tweets would be…
Interviewed about Unmark
I was interviewed by Belle Cooper for the Zapier blog about Unmark — our open source bookmarking application: But, we decided to make it open source because we didn‘t want it to…
Random WWDC 2015 Notes
Random notes from Apple’s WWDC Keynote today: Apple Music Radio sounds exactly like Top 40 radio and that is terrible. I hope it doesn’t end up being just “radio online” because that isn’t…
Starting over with Barley
Kyle and I have decided we love Barley too much to let it die. So we’re starting over with it in hopes we can find the right fit for it in the…
Visual Studio Code 0.3.0
I’ve been using VS Code for a little over a month now. It is easily my favorite editor at the moment. Yesterday Microsoft released an update to the application but you’ll need…
Design to solve real problems
Paul Adams of Intercom on Medium: In the last year I’ve reviewed a lot of product design work from job applicants and I’ve noticed a worrying pattern. Too many designers are designing…
Why blog?
Deanna Mascle on her blog in February of this year: Blogging isn’t for everyone, but as I must write to think and process life, blogging is a gift (What Blogging Taught Me). I…
The Web of Alexandria
Bret Victor: We, as a species, are currently putting together a universal repository of knowledge and ideas, unprecedented in scope and scale. Which information-handling technology should we model it on? The one…
Haughey introduces the Panoselfie
Matt Haughey on Medium: After seeing the first couple panoselfies Colin made, I became immediately enamored with the idea. You can see #panoselfies are picking up a bit.
Courier
Joe Betz at Coursera: We’d like to try a bit of an experiment here at Coursera. Instead of building a project internally and waiting until we think it’s fully polished to open…
Panoselfie hooplah
A little over a week ago I wrote: They aren’t new. You can find them if you dig. But they aren’t “a thing” and I think they should be. I was talking…
Web pages should load quickly
Facebook’s Instant Articles platform has us web people discussing the speed at which our pages load. It is excellent to see this discussion happening. Here are a few of my favorite tidbits…
Why Shopify is valued higher than Woo Commerce by a public market
I saw a discussion on Twitter while laying in bed last night. You can catch up right here. Essentially, it asks… why is Woo Commerce, which has a larger install base, valued…
Watch sales
In February Canalys estimated that there have been 720,000 Android Wear watches sold. Pretty good, I’d think, for a watch. Any watch maker would likely be proud of those numbers. Estimates for…
We’ve Made Web Development Complicated
Alex King: I’m working on a web app now and it recently struck me how much more complicated things have become. I agree. While some of the tools we’ve added onto the…
What is a Panoselfie?
They aren’t new. You can find them if you dig. But they aren’t “a thing” and I think they should be. So, yesterday I created a Flickr group called Panoselfies. I recommend giving…
My weekend
A few images from the weekend.
Today: May 7, 2015
A little something new. Another try at daily blogging. This is what I looked at most of the day. We’re putting in a fair bit of work on some new things for…
Casey Liss on Code
Casey Liss on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code: All told, Code may or may not be for you, but it’s working out really nicely for me so far. I definitely suggest giving it…