“The DisplayCabinet presents itself as a glowing ring on a side table. Placing items in the ring pops out relevant information about them. We started with keys and a wallet as it is typical to store these on a side table and doesn’t involve changing the users normal behaviour.” – Dan W. Williams DisplayCabinet from …
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First Crack #126. Hardware Startups with Matt Bauer
PedalBrain‘s Matt Bauer and I talk about the challenges, capital requirements, and multi-year timelines inherent in bringing a retail hardware product to market. Listen to Hardware Startups with Matt Bauer.
Stone Arch .5K – Sat., May 7 · 2:00pm
“This race is for everyone and it is not too late to start training: .5 Kilometers is 50,000 cm–.31 cruel miles, for those of you who reject the metric system. It’s about the distance covered in four city blocks. Pro tip: practice running one side of a block per week, adding another side every week …
when = 2(guess) + wiggle room
“It’s not just developers that are bad with estimates either. Everyone at some point is just winging it because it’s something they’ve never done before and won’t be able to successfully make a judgement until they have.” – Ashley Moran
Why, Yes, I Do Live East of the Mississippi
Earlier this week, I gave my Wide Open Faces talk to the web design group at Hennepin Tech. Much of that talk is a dive into the differences among open source licenses (specficially OFL, GPL, and X11/MIT). My personal preference is the X11/MIT license. It’s short (4 sentences) and basically says; while the copyright is …
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Garrick’s More Ergonomic Workspace
Years ago, I’d have regularly scheduled massage appointments to relieve the stress in my shoulders and upper back. A result of hunching over the laptop all day. Then, I compared the ongoing price of massage to a big external monitor. The monitor was a bargain. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been noticing the hunching …
What if They Had Only 4 Products?
“Jobs killed slow-selling products, most notably the Apple Newton hand-held computer, and reduced the number of product lines from sixty to just 4…” – Charles Hill, Garteth Jones, Essentials of Strategic Management Apple’s always had a culture of not turning back, and dragging their application developers (think Adobe) & users into their future. Dropping 3 …
Pay More, Better
Daniel Markham nails why I wholeheartedly disagree with pricing a book less than $25. “After considering those numbers, I’ve decided to go high. Retail price will be $99.99. I feel like I can justify this for a few reasons: 1) If it really helps you it’s worth that money, 2) If you pay that much …
Continuously
“I have strong believe (sic) that right now, somewhere, a new community site for programmers is rising. I only need to find it.” – z92
The Moo Train
“I want liberation from the commercial Web’s two-decade old design flaws. I don’t care how much a company uses first person possessive pronouns on my behalf. They are not me, they do now know me, and I do not want them pretending to be me, or shoving their tentacles into my pockets, or what their …