Month: August 2016
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Tone
Tone is more important than the words you use, until all you have is words. On the web, we’ve skirted tone for a long while with emoticons. 🙂 Thankfully, the wide adoption of Emoji is rescuing us from writing obscure combinations of syntactically invalid punctuation, and I think that’s a good thing. If you read as…
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Dear Automattic,
I know it’s been 3 years since we split up, but I wanted to reach out to say that I’m sorry for all of the pain I caused you. You see, back in 2010, I was on top of the WordPress world. I had great clients, was making OK money, and was making a move…
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Today's Software is Terrible
Are you a software developer? I am, and everyday I’m embarrassed by my profession. Every single day, I run across some website, app, video-game, program or plugin that is egregiously broken; embarrassingly broken; 5000-developers-with-six-figure-salaries-and-free-catered-lunches-and-still-can’t-get-it-right, broken. Apps on my phone, tablet, computer, tv, and car, crash constantly, sometimes resulting in actual data loss. We shoved television behind…
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Apple carOS
Imagine you’re a company, maybe even one as big, as innovative, and as reaching as Apple. Other technology companies have prototyped & released something ahead of you. What can you do? If you are anything like Apple, you use their head-start to your advantage, watching & learning from their expensive educations with an end-around in your playbook. You solve remaining problems…