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Matt Haughey looks back on leaving MetaFilter, one year later
lessons learned running an online community turned business
2016
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Graphtreon
I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise
The Typekit Blog · Tim Brown
Combining Typefaces: Free guide to great typography
Originally published by Five Simple Steps in 2013, my Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces has sold thousands of copies, been used in college curricula, and been cited in conference talks by industry-leading designers. Unfortunately, Five Simple Steps closed its doors this month. Because this pocket guide is no longer…
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A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
"Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?"
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I Want Your Email Address
"Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?"
Interconnected · Matt Webb
How my Twitter bot makes personalised animated GIFs
Ben Brown noticed that my bot @5point9billion made him a personalised animated GIF when it tweeted him yesterday (on the occasion of light that left Earth as he was born, right at that moment passing the star Iota Pegasi, a little over 38 light years away). And he was curious about how it did that. So: There's a…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-04-25
Bots won’t replace apps. Better apps will replace apps As I’ll explain, messenger apps’ apparent success in fulfilling such a surprising array of tasks does not owe to the triumph of “conversational UI.” What they’ve achieved can be much more instructively framed as an adept exploitation of Silicon Valley phone OS…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
No More Deceptive Download Buttons
Schneier on Security · schneier
Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering
Blog – Observatory · ken segall
Of Steve Jobs and Andy Grove
Last week we lost another pioneer of technology with the passing of Andy Grove. I can’t say I knew Andy well. I can only speak of him anecdotally, as I was part of his ad agency creative team for four years-plus in the early 2000s. At that time, Andy was more of a spiritual adviser […]
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
Destructables, DIY for protest and creative dissent
Destructables.org is a DIY repository of projects of protest and creative dissent. The site features user generated step-by-step video and photo/text based instructions for a wide range of dissenting actions, including art actions, billboard alterations, shop-dropping, protest strategies, protest props, methods of…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
The Next 40
In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers[1]. This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 40 years. Actually there are no other PC makers that are 40 years old. One computer maker (IBM) is older but they only sold PCs for 24 years and what they still sell they don’t…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-03-20
Modern Irish genome closely matches pre-Celt DNA, not Celtic Radiocarbon dating shows that the bones discovered at McCuaig’s go back to about 2000 B.C. That makes them hundreds of years older than the oldest artifacts generally considered to be Celtic — relics unearthed from Celt homelands of continental Europe, most…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Hong Kong.
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Getting Our Attention
1. Know who we are. From day one, you should be collecting e-mail addresses and building up a social media following. This is the first line of aggression, the first way to make people aware of what you’re doing. To ignore this precept is like making phone calls without a directory. You can’t talk to […] The post…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Part Two – In My Own Way
Ray LaMontagne – Part Two – In My Own Way – YouTube Ray LaMontagne – Part Two – In My Own Way – Spotify HAVE YOU HEARD THIS??? I’ve got no time for Ray LaMontagne, late to the party with his dirgey music appealing to softies who weren’t there the first time around… And then […] The post Part Two – In My Own Way…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The Amazon Tax
Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone's benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
Wondermark · David Malki
#1204; The Cargo Cult of Adulthood
Kitbashed - The Origins of Star Wars · Michael Heilemann
The Millennium Falcon
It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Jono Alderson
Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages
This post explains what AMP is and aims to do, who should implement and why, how to get your WordPress site ready for AMP and how to make sure Yoast SEO integrates nicely with it. What are Accelerated Mobile Pages/AMP? The Accelerated Mobile Pages project aims to make pages load instantly on mobile. The web is slow…
Overflow · Niel de la Rouviere
Working Remotely: How we develop Buffer over 10 different timezones
At Buffer, we’re a fully distributed team. We recently closed our office in San Francisco and now have a team in 12 different timezones. One of the frequent questions we receive is, “How do you work as a remote developer with so many timezones?”It’s such a great question and helps me reflect on some the unique…
Above Avalon · Neil Cybart
The Tim Cook Legacy
Tim Cook's message to customers last week regarding iPhone security will mark a defining moment for his legacy as Apple CEO. While the legal and technological ramifications resulting from the San Bernardino iPhone case will take months and years to play themselves out, the business implications are already visible.…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-02-03
Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks’ malware checklist / Boing Boing This is an excellent essay from Cory Doctorow on mass surveillance in the post-Snowden era, and the difference between HUMINT and SIGINT. So much good stuff, including this (new to me) cite for, “Goodhart’s law”, on secrecy as it…
Malkidian Geometry
Here is a poem I composed using only phrases from Jeb!’s fundraising emails
A few weeks ago, I signed up for all the candidates’ email lists – mainly because I wanted to see if any of them would sell my information. (I used all unique email addresses.)One thing that quickly became apparent was that Jeb!’s fundraising strategy consisted almost entirely of attempting to trick or guilt the…
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→ David Smith: Watch Apps Worth Making
There seem to be only three kinds of apps that make sense given the current hardware and software on the Apple Watch. I don’t know any other developers who have as much Watch-app experience as “Underscore” David Smith. Today’s Apple Watch and watchOS are very limited and most apps are necessarily terrible, but that…
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Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
as much about how people make money on Tumblr, and Yahoo's attempts to thwart it
The Art of Non-Conformity · Chris Guillebeau
Take the “Born for This” Free Quiz: What Kind of Work Style Suits You Best?
Link: Take the “Born for This” Free Quiz Hey, everyone! My new book, Born for This, goes out into the world in less than 70 days. I’m very excited about sharing the message of “how to find the work you were meant to do” with lots of people all over the world. You can now take a FREE quiz to learn more about what kind…
OkDork.com · Noah Kagan
Every tool I use to run a 7+ figure business
A few weeks ago, I visited some family friends and they just got Sonos (wireless stereo). I was giving them some recommendations how to make sure it works in every room. #superrichpeopleproblems Then they asked me what other tools I use for my personal life, home and business. Figured it’d be fun to share. Even…
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The Apple Watch got me hooked on mechanical watches
I never thought I’d be a watch person. (Or that I’d wear blue shorts.) I didn’t need a watch. I had a phone and a computer to tell me the time. But I got the Apple Watch on day one, because I’m a responsible iPhone app developer and I knew I’d need to port my app to it. I wore it almost every day for the next eight…
True Ventures · True
Leadership and Management Wisdom
This is a guest post by John Foley, Co-Founder and CEO of Peloton. Many Founders write code. I do not. Many write product specs. I do not. Many Founders are scientists with deep knowledge of super cool things. I have none. I am part of a somewhat dying breed of entrepreneurs—a general manager with limited […]
The Core Dump · Nic Lindh
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour has been to space and back to Earth 25 times—it’s escaped our gravity well 25 times and brought its crew back safely every time. Now it’s retired and sits available for public viewing at the California Science Center. It’s an enormously powerful artifact, a symbol of a…
The Hopscotch Blog · ricebeansandkeens
10 Most Innovative Hopscotch Games of 2015
Welcome to the Best of Hopscotch 2015 — games and art programmed by kids on the iPad.These projects broke barriers by introducing A.I., simulating 3D, and redefining what’s possible with the Hopscotch language. They paved the way for thousands of others to build off their ingenuity.This list is a tribute to the…
Bothsides of the Table · Mark Suster
Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality
What drives economic inequality in the US? Should we be concerned about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many? I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs […]
Robin Sloan's blog · Robin Sloan
Dancing the flip-flop
Dancing the flip-flop There’s a particular process that I’m fascinated by, and I tell people about it all the time, but I realized I’d never actually written about it—so here you go. Let’s start with a definition, and then I&
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BuzzFeed on the rise of the chanterculture
tying racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic paranoia into meme culture