About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
A couple years back Scott Davis and Paul Werni founded 45th Parallel Spirits, a distillery in New Richmond, WI – just a quick 45 minute drive from northeast Minneapolis. While there are number of craft brewers in the region, 45th Parallel is the only still I know of. Paul, Scott, and I talk about the …
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“A wall calendar showed August 1988 and an empty bottle of Vita Cola, Marella margarine, Juwel cigarettes and a bottle of Kristall vodka were in the kitchen.” Reminds me of an art installation I saw during my time in Germany. Imagine a room. With a single, wall-sized, framed painting leaning against the wall. Hanging tools …
After a couple very rough weeks – I’m happy with where Cullect and it’s caching strategy is. It’s slightly different from where I talked about last. I’ve also added a slave DB to the mix since my last write up. Overall, it feels more solid, and is performing at or better than before
There are 1,630 results in Amazon’s book search for ‘podcasting’, 11,301 for ‘twitter’. Feels bubbly.
It’s a new year, with a new president. An ideal time to clear the ground for a new America. To start the chopping, Garrick reviews Legends of Paul Bunyan by Harold W. Felton touching on a boyhood trip to Paul Bunyan Land and the story of Sport the Reversible Dog. [9 min].
Chad Gillard lives a few houses down from me – and little did I know that his side project is making and selling tasty, tasty Danish apple treats under the Aunt Else’s Organic Aebleskiver brand (Aunt Elsies on Twitter) It started with a goal so many Minnesotans have: sell food at the Minnesota State Fair. …
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In my part 1, I laid out my initial approach on caching in Cullect. It had some obvious deficiencies; This approach really only sped up the latest 20 (or so items). Fine if those items don’t change frequently (i.e. /important vs /latest) or you only want the first 20 items (not the second 20), The …
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(cross posted @ MNteractive.com & blog.cullect.com) I’ll be talking about how and why I built Cullect.com, Feburary 12th UPA-MN event at the Open Book, 6-8pm (Feels good to be back at the UPA-MN, it’s been too long.) The agenda: Developing a product you will use and the way you will use it. Designing the API …
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Mark Zandi, author of the Financial Shock, the best book on how we got into this economic mess is now covering the proposals to get us out. Quick context setting: “Every dollar decline in household net worth reduces consumer spending by 5 cents over the next two years. If sustained, the wealth lost over the …