Now you have the data.Thousands of responses from a survey with dozens of questions.You worked hard to come up with questions that painted the picture you felt you needed to make the decision with the data you gathered.And now you've got it. Comprehensively. Quantitatively...
One of my greatest pleasures at work is trying to find that point where everything feels just right. Nothing more, nothing less, but right there in the pocket.
It's almost fractal. It's there in every component, in every feature, in every flow, in every sequence, in every...
20 years ago today I wrote a blog post that changed my life.I'd never really launched a product before, so posting to our blog was only way I knew how to do it. And social media hadn't even been invented yet, so where else was I supposed to put it? In fact, guess what else...
I’ve been getting questions about NetNewsWire’s unavailability on Vision Pro. Why isn’t it there? When might it be there?
Here’s the scoop:
I consider it risky to support an app running on a device I don’t own. Imagine writing a Mac or iPhone app and not actually running i...
Let's get these out of the way!
Bookmarks related to tech and web development
Shawna, a Set Maker by olia.
Letting Eleventy Schedule Its Own Builds by Luke Morrigan.
Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS by Phil Hawksworth.
Sometimes the job is an assembly line by Dave Rup...
Enough feedback comes quick.Invite 100, get 10, 5 probably tell you all you need to know. Or at least 80% of it, which is all you need to know.Another 10, 20, 50+ will end up telling you mostly the same as those core five. And you'll find yourself repeating yourself — ...
I had not realised it had been 805 days since my last bookmarks roundup. 805 days. This section is still one of the most visited parts of my little web corner.
It's been so long that I have accumulated an intimidating number of bookmarks. On the other hand, I did go on mater...
I started using Apple computers — and writing code for them, starting with BASIC — 43 years ago, before the Macintosh, even, and I’ve made this my career. I’ve had all these decades to really, thoroughly delight in these incredible machines and software, and to give a little...
It's all a judgment call. Every human decision is a gut decision. The decision itself is the messy integration of many disparate pieces of information, experiences, instincts, stories, and unknowns.Data may inform, but as long as a human is making the decision, it's ultima...
The thing that excites me most about the Apple Vision Pro is the ability to capture someone's point of view.General purpose vision tracking at this scale and resolution, in a consumer device, is entirely new thing. And I think it has the potential to alter the course of th...
Imagine a vast swimming pool 25 miles long, 50 miles wide, and 25 feet deep. Swimming this pool is akin to running a business. And how you swim this pool is akin to how you run the business.Everyone starts at the beginning, but you decide how close to the center or the edg...
I've consulted. I've done client work. I've advised. I've served on boards. I've invested. I've written books. I've spoken on the circuit. I've blogged for years.I have to say, I've found no greater professional joy than working with a tight group of people to ship and sup...
I’m going to draw a parallel that isn’t quite straight, but it’s close enough.It’s between old (analog) cars and new (digital) cars, simple (analog) businesses and complicated (digital) businesses.Lately I’ve been driving two distinctly different cars. One from 1970, and t...
Tim Chambers, admin of the Mastodon server indieweb.social, which hosts my personal account and the NetNewsWire account, asked me if ActivityPub support is on the roadmap for NetNewsWire. Great question!
Tim was responding to Richard MacManus:
Are there any RSS Readers ...
For my daughter, I've been buying second-hand as much as possible. If it can be washed and disinfected, it will be second-hand. She loves noisy books right now, so I've been getting some cheap books from Vinted and charity shops. The other day I found a noisy book in a chari...
I’ve had a long year. I spent the first half on maternity leave and struggled quite a bit. Raising a baby is hard enough, and then adding the constant worry of milestones and development, their health, getting all the information to ensure you’re doing things right, all the ...
In the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever.Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some color is jarring, but kind of int...
Two weeks ago, I spoke at FFConf. Yes! Me! Last year, I made a little shy appearance in one of Sophie's slides, but it was the big deal this year.
I mentioned in a toot a while back how special FFConf is for me. Years ago, my friend Paul told me about it, and it turned out ...
Some weeks ago, I was so privileged to have been invited to chat about myself and my blog at Manu's new series, People and Blogs. I really enjoyed following someone else's prompts. I never rationalised some decisions about this blog out loud, so it was a fascinating exercise...
Once a product category proves popular, it's common for more companies to enter the market. Eventually, many options appear that are essentially mostly the same. Now we've got something that quacks like a commodity.Once we've got a commodity, generics eventually follow. De...
