About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17 At some point in late February – after 7,367 posts – I stopped visiting Twitter and deleted all the Twitter apps from my machines. My world suddenly …
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I’ve got a couple target thresholds for the markets. I see these thresholds as milestones of forward looking confidence and stability in the economy – signs the markets have recovered and are getting back to work. For the DJIA – my threshold is 12k. For the NASDAQ – it’s 2400. Which was passed today. Simultaneously, …
‘View Source’ was responsible for the hockey-stick growth of past 10 years of the web. ‘Download Source’ will be responsible for it’s hockey-stick growth in the next 15 years.
Back in college, I asked a friend why – even though they didn’t like the professor – they didn’t drop their painting class. Their reply – it gave them a space and a time to focus on painting, and their disagreements with the professor helped them better articulate the goals of the work. Excelerate Labs …
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First off: “Just do it — develop the products, and sell them and evolve them, and compete.” – Dave Winer People come back to places that send them away. Choose the best people to compete with. Make products for geniuses. Only steal from the best, and consider theft of your ideas the most sincere form …
I wrote this up earlier this year and thought – maybe you know of a similar project that could get this idea off the drawing board…. This community news platform is designed to collect and disseminate information in the public interest for communities too small to be effectively served by a traditional daily news source …
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One of the apps I’m working on was using Rails’ caches_page to speed up performance and reduce server load. It worked great until we added new formats via within the respond_to block. If there wasn’t a format specified in the request – the caches would get all messed up. Well sometimes. Making it a difficult …
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This morning, I had an idea for a iPhone app. After drawing up a couple of sketches on paper – I dove into the internets to look for existing code, sample projects, or at least some tutorials that might get me started. While I did find an extremely simple sample project that did something similar …
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Earlier this week – a message came through the web font mailing list referencing VRML. A painfully slow, barely usable, 3d modeling-for-the-web technology that I experimented with VRML during my time with Jeremy and da5d. And I hadn’t heard of since. Shortly after my adventures in VRML, CSS 2.0 supported custom web fonts as we …