I’m participating in a live conversation with some stellar folks at http://wpthinktank.com
August, 2014
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I’m not a fan of Jetpack in general, but this is a tremendous win for the WordPress community if brute force protection is added to it as a feature.
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To: Family & Friends
Date: August 25, 2014
Subject: Clinical trial update
Hi Everyone, It’s starting to feel like the end of summer here and the beginning of the beautiful fall season here in Colorado. Caitlin has a week of kindergarten under her belt and seems to be doing great. Heather and I walk her the few blocks up to school every day, which is really nice.…
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Couldn’t renew my annual archiving subscription to Pinboard fast enough.
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I pitched nearly the same idea to some friends a few months ago, but with a focus on storytelling and accomplishments rather than just having links. I think something like this has the potential to be much more compelling and useful than a traditional resume.
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This seems like the sort of thing a platform would do when natural growth/network effect has stalled. Anyone surprised by this move hasn’t been paying attention.
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I think Casey and Myke are pretty brave to be putting this much “inside baseball” into a public podcast. I think it has huge potential. I don’t know if they intend to take it this way, but imagine a show like Debug about the people rather than the products/tech.
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Another milestone.
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http://twitter.com/OvercastFM/status/500001295462580225 Exactly the sort of thing I was concerned about.
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We could all use a little levity after this week. (kiddo-in-the-room alert: f-bomb in last 10 seconds)
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The worst part of outfitting our police officers as soldiers has been psychological. Give a man access to drones, tanks, and body armor, and he’ll reasonably think that his job isn’t simply to maintain peace, but to eradicate danger. Instead of protecting and serving, police are searching and destroying.
If officers are soldiers, it follows that the neighborhoods they patrol are battlefields. And if they’re working battlefields, it follows that the population is the enemy. And because of correlations, rooted in historical injustice, between crime and income and income and race, the enemy population will consist largely of people of color, and especially of black men. Throughout the country, police officers are capturing, imprisoning, and killing black males at a ridiculous clip, waging a very literal war on people like Michael Brown.
Of everything I’ve read about Ferguson, this piece (inflammatory title aside) probably does the best job of taking a holistic view of the situation.
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I buy Field Notes and other notebooks, but I don’t use them much. I favor keeping my content digital. I love this little tip though – it definitely makes the contents of the notebook more accessible.
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There’s been a ton of recent conversation in the iOS world about the inability for most indie developers to create sustainable businesses through the iOS app store. In particular, these devs are talking about apps that require larger development efforts – they want to charge more than “impulse purchase” prices for these, and thus want…
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Some years from now I will watch Dead Poets Society with my daughter and hope it means as much to her as it did to me.
RIP Robin Williams.
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Me: Do you want some ham or turkey on your grilled cheese sandwich?
5-year old: How about bacon?!
That’s my girl…