Not adding another decision point to my cognitive workload...
Not adding another decision point to my cognitive workload so that I don't build up a slowly-growing store of resentment towards your product is the ultimate growthhack.
When a SaaS co tells you "we're changing the terms of our...
When a SaaS co tells you "we're changing the terms of our API" could they also tell you "this probably won't affect you based on how you use it" or "this might change your billing structure"? Could an industry use data to help paying customers instead of just upselling them?
What sucks is the sneaking. For the same investment they...
What sucks is the sneaking. For the same investment they could have contributed to the commons in a transparent and significant way and looked like heroes. twitter.com/...
I'm missing the office Yankees game outing (+ snack/beer...
I'm missing the office Yankees game outing (+ snack/beer wristband) to finish something important and I've never felt more like I have to stay in and practice my violin in my entire life.
@jmiralva Automatically. I'm thinking that given rcdexta.com/... plus great RTEs and auth tools, the main big thing missing to create a totally open source super-CMS out of a TINY bit of glue code is a workflow framework to move content through a pipeline.
A language or descriptive grammar that could power a kanban...
A language or descriptive grammar that could power a kanban board basically. Is there something people reach for or is it just so simple we all roll our own? Or if you're going enterprise you go with something at the scale of BPNM and never look back?
I know it's Saturday night, and I'm going to ask a question...
I know it's Saturday night, and I'm going to ask a question that reveals my true self and I need you all to be chill. Here goes: Is there a good DSL for business process automation or a simplified version of BPNM out there? Like for describing editorial workflow with constraints?
I'm so sorry for your loss. I just went back and read the...
@JessicaFKane I'm so sorry for your loss. I just went back and read the interview she did about working at Playboy, because I love it, and was struck by this paragraph. I'm so glad you introduced her to all of us. twitter.com/...
Developer friends, we all use Salesforce. It's no longer a...
Developer friends, we all use Salesforce. It's no longer a choice. @PostlightStudio created a complete open-sourced framework that lets you speak to @Salesforce in GraphQL. Two commands to get to a GraphiQL interface. Full mutation support. Low stress. Go. postlight.com/...
That said, I've never used docker ee with docker beans,...
That said, I've never used docker ee with docker beans, just docker cesna (community edition snapless no apt) edition which currently doesn't work because it hardcoded a camel-cased path to a case-sensitive virtualbox binary.
It used to be that you had to spend all your time...
It used to be that you had to spend all your time sysadminning your local dev environments to make anything work, but what's cool now is that when you write software with docker you get to sysadmin an essentially infinite number of machines.
There's a great guest list for tonight's @PostlightStudio...
There's a great guest list for tonight's @PostlightStudio labs product unveiling event and given that the weather is good and it's a Tuesday somewhere between 50 and 500 people will show up, including all of your friends. See you tonight! We're hiring.
See this is the stuff I think of whenever people talk about...
@said_mitch@modernserf See this is the stuff I think of whenever people talk about how comic books are our sacred modern myths handed down by geniuses.
Proud to say I just deleted a tweet before posting it. It...
Proud to say I just deleted a tweet before posting it. It was about a section of a prominent local newspaper. Not gonna ruin MY Saturday with their nonsense.
Next Tuesday evening, May 21, at @PostlightStudio we are...
Next Tuesday evening, May 21, at @PostlightStudio we are having a party and launching/sharing out a vast trove of Postlight Labs projects. meetup.com/...
I am grateful for all the good things that come to me, like...
I am grateful for all the good things that come to me, like the opportunity to write cover stories for national magazines that I've read for 25 years. Amongst those good things I count your tweets, DMs, and emails (paul.ford@postlight.com). __EOT__
These are inclusive charities, run by women and/or people...
These are inclusive charities, run by women and/or people of color. Several teach people who are marginalized by tech-at-large how to wield some of the power of this industry in their own interests, and one uses a technology platform to directly reduce suffering.
The piece talks about moral responsibility, so in the...
The piece talks about moral responsibility, so in the interest of putting my money where my words are, I'm splitting my fee (thanks @WIRED!) between four charities: @BlackGirlsCode, @VetsWhoCode, @jessamyn's Vermont Drop-In, and @humanutility.
I hope you'll find this essay useful (love/hate/annoyance)...
I hope you'll find this essay useful (love/hate/annoyance) as you navigate your own individual path through the superstructure of global platform technocracy. It was hard to write, and hugely helped along by a great editor, @vtitunik, who gently encouraged much rewriting.
They put it on the cover. Long low whistle! Getting a quote...
They put it on the cover. Long low whistle! Getting a quote and my name splashed across the cover of @WIRED (a national monthly!) is a helluva thing for a rumpled nerd. In a few years I'll know what to make of it. twitter.com/...
A few months ago @WIRED asked me to write down what I still...
A few months ago @WIRED asked me to write down what I still love about tech, now that the industry's shine is dulled by mass distrust. Here it is: wired.com/...
lol but i'd rather hear what other people are working on. i...
@ballingt@mogwai_poet lol but i'd rather hear what other people are working on. i probably get to have 500-1500 conversations a year if I'm having a busy year, it helps me see the world in lots of different ways.
Sure, except...in reality when you meet them most people...
@ballingt@mogwai_poet Sure, except...in reality when you meet them most people really want to talk and be seen, not ask questions. Or if they want to ask about like, IVF, it's because they're figuring it out and so I ask the questions and try to listen/help. And I like that because I'm actually shy.
As an agency @PostlightStudio receives a goodly number of...
As an agency @PostlightStudio receives a goodly number of Requests for Proposals for Website projects. We love to help our clients any way we can. So we made a tool to automate Web RFP writing. rfp.postlight.com We would love to hear what you think of it, good/bad. DM away!
An imbalanced marketplace needed balance. Isn't this what...
@patbits@toomuchnick An imbalanced marketplace needed balance. Isn't this what venture capitalists are always telling us? That we should disrupt? And I could, with shoe leather (or rather sneaker rubber and a Metrocard), become a one-man disruptive *platform* for democratizing cronut distribution.
Sure! Come talk about how you do design research at MSFT...
@spladow@thomasrhiel@Choire Sure! Come talk about how you do design research at MSFT and we'll talk about how we build products. Since we're an agency our process is basically open--we have to explain it to our clients since they pay us to apply it. Just DM.
My dream is to watch Thomas use OneNote on his Surface Pro...
@spladow@thomasrhiel@Choire My dream is to watch Thomas use OneNote on his Surface Pro to observe Times editors using Oak while taking notes in a graph paper notebook that I will immediately lose.
Breakfast in America just feels so NYC to me because of the...
@libbybrittain Breakfast in America just feels so NYC to me because of the cover. They're coming from Britain in the 70s. They have pop style but slight pretensions to Steely Dan irony. Where they gonna land?
People refer to exceptional artists/singers on Twitter by...
@capndesign People refer to exceptional artists/singers on Twitter by saying "she has the range." Bruce Hornsby is a recording artist who was huge in the 1980s with his band, as Bruce Hornsby and The Range.
Theory: GoT is a barista's fever dream and she's about to...
Theory: GoT is a barista's fever dream and she's about to wake up, so reality is starting to bleed through into the dreamwork. This explains why no character's name is spelled correctly.
Maybe that's the whole point of this site, to show every...
Maybe that's the whole point of this site, to show every digital friend and acquaintance repeating the same joke over and over for hours, like a 1970s black box theater experiment, to let us all know that all we do when we speak is share pointers to the void.
Mayyybe but IDK, “Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles...
@Shawn00Guerra Mayyybe but IDK, “Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles or CHOAM, essentially controls all economic affairs across the cosmos, although it relies upon the Spacing Guild for transport across space due to the Guild's monopoly on faster-than-light travel.”
I showed my kids that we, too, used to have Scholastic Book...
I showed my kids that we, too, used to have Scholastic Book Fair catalogs, and they asked, what's wrong with Garfield? So I tried to explain Heathcliff and after 20 minutes of clips and cartoons and blogs I am so much more confused. twitter.com/...
It's a pathological and infantilizing relationship that...
@baekdal@pilhofer@jeffjarvis It's a pathological and infantilizing relationship that might have made sense once but in a dwindling market limits the control journalists have over their own destiny! (Although most orgs never tell you how they actually make money and you have to figure it out.)
This publication features great nerd content (see the JPEG...
This publication features great nerd content (see the JPEG editor built into this page) and each file can be downloaded as a WARC file to encourage decentralized archiving of interactive content. It's...just really good and thoughtful. parametric.press/...
We had a Khaleesi at the kids daycare five or six years...
@TaylorLorenz@heatheremerrick We had a Khaleesi at the kids daycare five or six years ago. They called her Leesi. Khaleesis will be eligible to vote by 2032.