2024

• GDrive to S3 Oct 5
• Fixed the XML Aug 15
• A Link Blog in the Year 2024 Jun 8
• Minor blog updates May 14
• What we mean to others May 12

2023

• Software and its Discontents, Part 3: Rising Cost and Elusive Success Jan 29
• Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity Jan 23
• Software and its Discontents, January 2023, Part 1 Jan 16

2022

• Full stack Nov 19
• Boiling water with the lid off Nov 6
• ideas.txt: Find Me There Nov 5
• Twitter Messiness Was A Feature Nov 4
• Quick and dirty overview of tasks in Obsidian Oct 11
• Climate and tithing Sep 23
• A techie thinking about IRA Sep 19
• I need a CRM Aug 16
• Why is productivity tracking popular with management? Aug 15

2019

• New-ish site Jun 11

2018

• What I'm up to: tech leadership Nov 12
• What I'm up to: researching Nov 12

2016

• Don’t pave the paths used by the unhappy cows Jul 14
• I have some questions about mobile, geo, and platforms Feb 7
• When does conversational commerce make sense today? Jan 28
• Towards an understanding of technical debt Jan 10

2015

• Optimizing for Learning Nov 8
• Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. Aug 31
• More thoughts on the Keyboardio Model 01 Jun 15
• "Engineering capacity for an economic revolution" Apr 19
• A little bit on the technical track Jan 11

2014

• 2014 End of Year Booklist Dec 29
• Annoyed by "The Peripheral" Nov 11
• Pumpkin Pudding Oct 26
• "Wolf" narrative considered harmful (also biologically unlikely) Sep 2
• AWS Redshift: "Missing newline: Unexpected character 0x4f found at location 3" Jul 21
• Communication Skills May 17
• Shell trick for the perpetually distracted May 12

2013

• Explaining to the phone how to be a CTO Dec 5
• Slow Twitter Nov 17
• 5 Approaches to Handling Bugs We Tried Before Our Current Approach Nov 1
• A quick knot in a few Flickr threads Oct 19
• Paths to Production Confidence, Part 1 of N Aug 8
• Surviving being senior (tech) management Jul 16
• Novels, Yes And Improv Comedy May 25
• Mr Chaturong Nakmamee – Koh Tao, Thailand Mar 18
• Going on a honeymoon, be back soon Mar 4
• The one thing thats worked so far Feb 10
• Competence! Feb 10
• Are you here? A feature on the side Feb 3

2012

• entrepreneurship, its also not just hacking up a website Dec 8
• remembrance engines, from the comments Dec 8
• Two Weeks, With A Ring Dec 8
• Notes towards a future understanding of distributed documenting behavior. Oct 6
• The veggie burger, not to mention the ethos and the beer list, at the Randolph are legit Sep 22
• Business Transcendental Sep 13
• App.net and Cargo Culting Sep 12
• Openness Rocks Aug 31
• I got a postcard from Vik today Aug 1
• oldtweets Jul 10
• A new (to me) spam type: the "let me write you a blog post" Jun 26
• The ambivalence of backing a successful Kickstarter project Jun 26
• Random Walk as Cargo Cult Jun 25
• Move fast, break stuff Jun 24
• The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham are solid Jun 23
• "Where the best and brightest come to shine..." Apr 2
• Room for disruption Apr 2
• Open 24 hours Mar 31
• because as soon as we started [pinning] for you Mar 20
• Austin plans, so far (SxSW 2012) Mar 5
• Remembrance Engines Feb 11
• Pour Overs Jan 29
• "They can even stop when they have a map that is just good enough." Jan 28
• Conflicted on: per country censorship, responsibility, and the cost of doing business Jan 28

2011

• 15 Minutes Spent Sleuthing the Case of the Missing Fab.com Engineering Team Dec 29
• pinterest.api.php Dec 4
• Some *.es domains coming for renewal this week Nov 23
• Snooping on an iPhone apps API usage (aka light weight reverse engineering) Nov 12
• What apps do you use to explore your city? Sep 15
• kindle.amazon.com doing some things ridiculously badly Aug 9
• Booknotes: Kindle Highlights to Tumblr, a Bookmarklet Aug 6
• Slow News, Redux Aug 6
• Slow News Jul 31
• Getting started with Flickr real time APIs (in PHP) Jul 24
• Cost of false positives Jul 23
• Morning thought: transparency is for customers Jul 22
• Notes on Feature Based Group Forming Jun 30
• Flourishes, Craftsmanship, Dates, History, and Flickr Jun 2
• "Sorry! We did something wrong." – Twitter, on suspending my account. Jun 2
• Shipping, it gets harder May 7
• The Brooklyn Problem May 5
• Roots Apr 30
• Upcoming Gigs Apr 18
• dirty hands Apr 5
• +1 for knowing your history Mar 30
• Airbnb was the breakout app at SxSW 2011 Mar 17
• stellar.io Mar 16
• Anti-Social SxSW Mar 10
• "The internet is too important to outsource " Mar 6
• Good work, not done by the humble Mar 5
• Tip: Flickr standard photo response as slideshow Jan 24
• ville, noun Jan 23

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