Medium BY Paul Ford Publications 311 Sections Mostly Summer Rolls I wore stripes and a plaid bow-tie Sight for Signal D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM Old and New Thoughts on “Close to the Machine” Tesla in a Teapot The Internet Raises a Puppy Hedgefox Buys Metayacht Office [Future Posts] Deliverables A Shit Writing Day The questions to be posed at SxSW Interactive 2014 The Cost of Everything What I’ve learned from fatherhood SP 1/1/14 When you see someone and think they need help, you can press help into their hand. The Great Works of Software Amazing Military Infographics It Is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are 10 Timeframes Important kitty litter questions answered New York City After Global Warming Doomed to Repeat It The American Room How to Be Polite Wednesday Aug. 20, 2064 Apple Liveblog, September 9, 2014 The Perfect Writer Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing How to get through painful family conversations this Thanksgiving How to Email with an Old Friend After Falling Out of Touch My daughter, the user Dear Kids 1. You Will Build Your Own Google An email I sent about the Chinese Room in 2003 How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW) It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green Just Checking In Sausage streams! Yes to the Dress? The first thing I do when I wake up and get the children dressed—which, my God. Getting the… WhiskerNet Busy social settings Notifications & Alerts Apple WATCH Liveblog Revisiting an Old Piece Hello! My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure The Media Industry Prefers Penis (SFW!) A “No to” Poem Fairly Random Thoughts on Ashley Madison & the Swiftly Moving Line Correspondence From Manhattan, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn. I like the way this is sponsored by Adobe. In practice it means I compose posts on Desktop and respond on mobile. It’s a response, which is kind of a story. Here Is Postlight Associate project manager Dash helped manage that scope creep. Hey, Ev Williams. This is all good and interesting news. cool tags Hmm. At first when I read this, I was like, “yeah!” Helpful talk tips! Stick a pin in it! Unsolicited Rejection Yes—we want people pinning! What Paul Ford Wrote/Said in 2015 Submission. Beautiful I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. Enter the GIFBattle.zone! blurg Tech Ads @ Super Bowls A tiny essay on Twitter changing its feed algorithm Technology Internship Salaries Considered Deep Valley Thoughts & GIF Battle Updates TMZ.com in terms of corn yield TMZ.com in terms of corn yield Usable Data Can we meet about the right formatting for the list? Are you free Wednesday at 2PM EST? When the chips are up Maximalism, Digital Bot thoughts Executives around the fire More bot thoughts & more ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS — EXCEPT EUROPA Meet our new podcast, Track Changes Track Changes Podcast #1: Deep inside Facebook and Silicon Valley with Jon Lax (Transcript) Nine fine vines Just a regular Saturday with my social graph, you know? this is very plausible! Risks We Accept This is very helpful context. Thank you! Track Changes: Apple vs. the FBI and Paul vs. Rich Track Changes Podcast #2—The FBI vs. Apple and Rich vs. Paul (Transcript) Fun Photoshop File Format Facts Caricatures Executive Summary Whoops (Was: Executive Summary) Global App Madness They are! I think it’s a real mix where self-published authors who succeed are adopted and promoted… “Postlight Posts” is no more Bot thoughts Caricatures Executive Summary Executives around the fire Fun Photoshop File Format Facts Global App Madness Maximalism, Digital Meet our new podcast, Track Changes More bot thoughts & more Nine Fine Vines Oh my lord. Wow. Podcast #2: Apple vs. the FBI and Paul vs. Rich Risks We Accept Track Changes Podcast #3: Make HTML Great Again (Transcript) Track Changes Podcast #3: Make HTML Great Again Usable Data When the chips are up Tracking down a cat GIF I miss staging I think that’s what I keep coming back to—the fantasy that it “just works” and then the inevitable… Star Profile: Photos by Darrell Hanley The Life and Death of Clippy Podcast #4: Anil Dash, Entrepreneur to Activist Interfaces over time Technology in distress Some (other) interesting newsletters Podcast #5: Add Me to Your Professional Network Lessons learned: Ember to React Tay, this week's “It” bot Podcast #6: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 1 Bots won’t stop Culturally—Star Wars, action movies in general, simple stories of redemption, romantic comedies… Laughter Doesn’t Scale Podcast #7: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 2 Also of course I’m ambivalent. What the hell is wrong with ambivalence? Commenting on leaks I’m okay with you not understanding. No, that is not my point. This is a corporate newsletter. I’m not lecturing anyone on purity. Right! And I mean, at some level they absolutely should be doing this. Yeah that’s good feedback — I’m actually making this point when I say it’s “latent” but I could… ASMR as a Platform Between a double and the deep blue sea Podcast #8: Takin’ it Meta Some interesting patterns Today’s Postlight newsletter is simply a screenshot of an article from Re/Code Meet the Lux Framework! It’s Hard to Name Web Aesthetic Movements Thanks, that’s good context! Podcast #9: Camille and Kellan are Friends (and CTOs) Google image search is the true search Finding an old CD-ROM and a terrible Diablo rap Consequence Management Systems Podcast #10: The Web is Dead? Thinking a little differently about Apple TV Khoi Vinh is going to swing by Postlight tonight at 6:30PM Podcast #11: Gina Trapani—coder to lifehacker and back again Things breaking and changing Not OK, Computer Podcast #12: A little chat about terrible failure Simulations! Two quick advertisements + something about demos Podcast #13: Introducing Postlight Mercury, an easy, free AMP converter What Giants Can’t See Podcast #14: Natalie Podrazik—iOS developer and user-research spy Automatic for the Sheeple Friday Links: Design Edition Podcast #15: Q&A The Whole Spy’s Guide to the Internet Friday Links: Engineering Edition Are you my digital product studio? Podcast #16: Khoi Vinh—From Subtraction to Adobe Open-source geo is really something right now Friday Links: Product edition 9 Things Microsoft Could Do With LinkedIn I…agree! I can definitely see that the current problems are the artifacts of some pretty big… Podcast #17: Paul and Rich Exchange Frank Views Gina Trapani on the software we use every day at Postlight Friday Links: Design Edition Pattern We didn’t go the last four years—it was fun to see. Some Useful-ish Internet-ish Glossaries Podcast #18: Virginia Heffernan — Magic, Loss, and Mercy-killing Horses The world’s best sleepy-time media Friday Links: Engineering Edition Just…curious. Interested. Risks, Digested Podcast #19: The Silence of the Cams Guest Post: Middle Pages, by Josephine Livingstone Friday Links: Product Edition Friday Links: Design Edition Too many wires at once! tiny typo—“all” instead of “at” here? Podcast #21: Mayer Lemons — a chat about Yahoo’s recent acquisitions Gina Trapani talks about Black Girls CODE with NYC Chapter Lead Onyi Nwosu Updates from our accidental network Friday* Links: Engineering Edition NYC tech, part ∞ Podcast #22: Karen McGrane — Content and discontent “We all feel like idiots now, Feynman. Nice work.” Friday Links: Product Edition Welp, it happened, Verizon bought Yahoo, and now we must live with the consequences Podcast #23: The DNA of NDAs Saturday Links: Design Edition World of Water Parks Podcast #24: Event Verizon Selected VHS Covers Friday Links: Engineering Edition So AMP is pretty easy to work with. We’re Bullish on AMP Hi, Adewale. Podcast #25: Elizabeth Spiers is Multi-dimensional Your point is completely valid and it raises good concerns. Exactly — it should also be quite easy to embed AMP too. Lot of problems before that can be solved. Janet Kim on Product as Marketing Friday Links: Product Edition Just time and effort. Podcast #26: This Is Haughey Do It A strange digital time capsule Friday Links: Design Edition, plus pictures of “graphic designers working” from our stock photo… Podcast #27: Julia Pimsleur — Found in Translation Drew Bell on front-end engineering as a kind of translation The Street View From the Cheap Seats Friday Links: Engineering Edition Podcast #28: Rational Geographic — Map Chat with Aaron Straup Cope Twine as a Process Modeling Tool Three Algorithm Reads Friday Links: Product Edition Podcast #29: Who’s Gonna Drive You Home — Talking Self-Driving Cars Gina Trapani on Postlight’s Friendly Bot Friday Links: Design Edition A New New New Thing? Podcast #30: Brightcove, Big City—Talking video with David Mendels Counterpoint: If your big company wants to innovate, hire whiny crybabies Making It Work: Instant.me Friday Links: Engineering Edition Podcast #31: “See media for pic” — a conversation on emergency alerts My Co-Founder, the Skittle Friday Links: Product Edition Podcast #32: Clover Newsletter—Turning over a new leaf (or four) with founders Liza Darwin and… Friday Links: Design Edition Introducing an Awesome CMS List South by South Give Me My Damn Maple Syrup Gina Trapani on “WordPress Without Shame” Postlight at a year! Meet the Mercury Web Parser—a new, general-purpose web API that works alongside our AMP converter Toy Vano on shipping three projects in two months Drew Bell on the Spreadsheets of the Great British Baking Show Note to all-hands Our mission statement is under revision by our team and we’ll share it in time. Facebook, 2016 election Thanks! Fixed. Understanding the Fake News Problem Get Me Central! (A quick explainer) Kevin Barrett on Building an iOS App That Helps You Meditate Five Plus Gina Trapani on Impostor Syndrome All my dumb questions, December 2016 I think/hope that folks will get their act together on this. Q & A & Mission Statements I read your note with interest. Five Links! Kevin Barrett on Kind Social Networks Postlight’s Big Well-Intentioned List of Not-For-Profit Organizations That Are Trying to Make a… Year in Review: 2016 I think folks he’ll appoint also have it in for Iran in the same way Bush II had it in for Iraq. Shut Up and Take My Money! Going Deep on a Checkbox Friday Links: Design Edition I might use that! Thanks to You, I Get It Now “Practice”—Now on the Web! Drew Bell on How Standards Stick Around Guest Post: Jeffrey Zeldman at the Poynter Design Challenge PROGRESS! Gina Trapani on What’s Up With the Mercury AMP Converter Against Storytelling Jeffrey Zeldman on news design, part two The Beautiful TI-108 Friday Links: Engineering Edition Forensic Storytelling We ship again! Gina Trapani Named Postlight Partner Ten Minutes of Silence NYC in the summers Be Our Guest! Decentralize It! Postlight Is Seeking a Director of Product Management in NYC (plus Product Managers and Product… On Being a Good Platform Citizen “Irony Doesn’t Scale” Postlight: Our Mission & Our Values But…Tina…you’re someone who has something to prove? Big Data, Small Effort Driving Traffic Postlight End-of-year Giving 2017 Know Your Ecosystems! Make the Logo Bigger This is a good point. Our Gently Aging Avatars I was thinking I should update it to an SD card. Rolling out a rebrand is hard work. A Knight Piece of Work CMS ❤ CRM Ship It! The Game of Product Management Tech After Trump Things Left Undone Stories I Don’t Finish Web Conversations With the Year 2000 Web Conversation From the Other Side Ah totally, thank you. Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release Money works so hard.