2016

5675 Tweets, 280 Publications, 10 Posts

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niiiice!

Dec 31 Tweets

@taliesinSF @ACLU @EFF @Wikimedia @Give_Directly @FundHumanRights @WWF @mapintl @AgainstMalaria niiiice!

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Whoa thanks!

Dec 28 Tweets

@saundibaundi @PostlightStudio @richziade Whoa thanks!

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Postlight’s Big Well-Intentioned List of Not-For-Profit Organizations That Are Trying to Make a…

By Paul Ford Dec 20

Postlight’s Big Well-Intentioned List of Not-For-Profit Organizations That Are Trying to Make a Difference in Our Highly Confusing and Rapidly-Changing World This morning we did a quick census of the office, wrote a few lines of Python to turn a Google Spreadsheet into some HTML, and came up with this list of the 33 charities we like to support. It’s a good year to give something away.

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true!

Dec 14 Tweets

@marcprecipice @mathowie true!

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Kevin Barrett on Kind Social Networks

By Paul Ford Dec 13

Kevin Barrett on Kind Social Networks Kevin Barrett is Senior Software Engineer, Postlight, and he writes about managing his own social network — Before I joined Postlight I spent a couple of years running Airendipity , a sort of twee social network in which everyone was anonymous and all you could do was send little paper airplanes with some text inside. The paper airplanes would bounce around the globe from phone to phone, picking up placenames ( your plane just landed in Cairo!

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Michael Sippey on Product Management—and Pivoting

By Paul Ford Dec 12

Learning from successes and failures: this week Paul and Rich talk to Michael Sippey, whose career spans the history of the web, from blogging pioneer to Six Apart to director of product at Twitter to startup founder. He details his work at Twitter during a time of transition for the social network, and then shares frank perspectives about launching and recently shutting down his startup, Talkshow.

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Five Links!

By Paul Ford Dec 11

Five Links! The entire Internet could, maybe should, be archived in Canada .

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Q&A: Taking listener questions, and mission statements

By Paul Ford Dec 5

Answering listener mail: this week Paul and Rich answer a few letters: first, an architect asks Rich to expand upon his analogy between small teams of software developers and architecture firms; then, a Facebook-weary listener asks why there isn’t an easy way to pull your content from the platform. They round out the show with a discussion on Postlight’s mission statement—or lack thereof.

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Q & A & Mission Statements

By Paul Ford Dec 5

Q & A & Mission Statements Hmm. Answering listener mail : This week Paul and Rich answer a few letters: First, an architect asks Rich to expand upon his analogy between small teams of software developers and architecture firms; then, a Facebook-weary listener asks why there isn’t an easy way to pull your content from the platform.

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All my dumb questions, December 2016

By Paul Ford Dec 4

All my dumb questions, December 2016 This weekend I just wanted to write down the stuff in my head that is driving me bananas. I’m surrounded by tons of really confident answers about the world right now but frankly the answer industry has some explaining to do, or some explainers to write, and no matter how many times I hit refresh no one—left or right—is really nailing it.

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I think/hope that folks will get their act together on this.

By Paul Ford Dec 4

I think/hope that folks will get their act together on this. The left is really big on taking credit as the social progressive party but of course the history is filled with things like Kennedy asking MLK to chill out because all the protests were making us look bad to the Russians.

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Five Plus Gina Trapani on Impostor Syndrome

By Paul Ford Nov 29

Five Plus Gina Trapani on Impostor Syndrome Not for you, Uber Gina Trapani on Impostor Syndrome Today Gina Trapani , Director of Engineering, Postlight, writes a great essay to remind us that we’re all faking it —and we shouldn’t judge ourselves harshly for that, but rather embrace it. It’s a good message for anyone who works in technology—a fashion industry, despite everyone’s protestations—and also a good message for the moment.

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Hmm.

Nov 29 Tweets

@jackrusher @asolove Hmm.

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Kevin Barrett on Building an iOS App That Helps You Meditate

By Paul Ford Nov 22

Kevin Barrett on Building an iOS App That Helps You Meditate A meditation interface should be pretty minimal, right? Kevin Barrett is Senior Software Engineer, Postlight, and he recently wrote up the work he did building an app for INSCAPE, a new meditation start-up in NYC.

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Get Me Central! (A quick explainer)

By Paul Ford Nov 20

Get Me Central! (A quick explainer) By Paul Ford, Co-founder, Postlight These nice people are having a transaction, but sadly the platform will not scale As we all now know, we live in an age of massive centralized digital platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft LinkedIn, and the like are the conduits for a vast amount of our personal and professional interactions, and they profit accordingly.

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Get Me Central!

By Paul Ford Nov 20

As we all now know, we live in an age of massive centralized digital platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft LinkedIn, and the like are the conduits for a ...

Tweets

me too!

Nov 14 Tweets

@michelet @ananavarro @SenSanders me too!

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Cathy O'Neil on “Weapons of Math Destruction”

By Paul Ford Nov 14

Our dangerous reliance on big data: in an episode recorded before the election, Rich and Paul talk to Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. They discuss Cathy’s origins in the math world, her years at a hedge fund on the brink of the 2008 financial crisis, the lack of transparency in the Department of Education’s data, and the various examples of “weapons of math destruction” in her book—all the ways that data is used to harm.

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Facebook and the 2016 Election

By Paul Ford Nov 13

Facebook is, to its chagrin, part of the conversation about the outcome of the 2016 election. Here is a list of some special moments that we have all ...

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Facebook, 2016 election

By Paul Ford Nov 13

Facebook, 2016 election Facebook is, to its chagrin, part of the conversation about the outcome of the 2016 election. Here is a list of some special moments that we have all shared with Facebook: Facebook has ~1.

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Thanks!

Nov 10 Tweets

@RosMiltonREC @ELLEmagazine Thanks!

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Note to all-hands

By Paul Ford Nov 9

Note to all-hands Usually we wear shoes Things around the office and on chat were looking kind of grim, and I was asked if I could say something to boost morale. I sort of mumbled this out at the all-hands meeting, and I figured I’d mumble it here, too.

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Drew Bell on the Spreadsheets of the Great British Baking Show

By Paul Ford Nov 1

Drew Bell on the Spreadsheets of the Great British Baking Show If you’re watching TV on a computer it’s easy enough to take a screenshot of whatever catches your eye. That’s what happened to Drew Bell , Engineer, Postlight, as he watched the Great British Baking Show.

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In the studio with Jeffrey Zeldman

By Paul Ford Oct 31

The next step for Jeffrey Zeldman: this week Paul and Rich talk to the web design pioneer who, in Paul’s words, “designed the aesthetic of the web for a while. ” They discuss his history as founder of the design studio Happy Cog and A List Apart Magazine, co-founder of A Book Apart and An Event Apart, and author of, amongst other titles, Taking Your Talent to the Web.

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Toy Vano on shipping three projects in two months

By Paul Ford Oct 30

Toy Vano on shipping three projects in two months Toy Vano is Product Manager, Postlight, and upon coming to work here was immediately hit with a pretty significant task: Launch three products in two months. Wheeeee.

Tweets

Thanks, Tim!

Oct 20 Tweets

@tflynn_mm @PostlightStudio @codymcowan @tinystride Thanks, Tim!

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Postlight at a year!

By Paul Ford Oct 19

Postlight at a year! The cover of our new book We’re having our one-year anniversary tonight , and launching Postlight Labs.

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Postlight at a year!

By Paul Ford Oct 19

We’re having our one-year anniversary tonight, and launching Postlight Labs. It’s been a lot of preparation—we’re in our new office, announcing some new ...

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Gina Trapani on “WordPress Without Shame”

By Paul Ford Oct 18

Gina Trapani on “WordPress Without Shame” MY GOD SHUTTERSTOCK WHAT EVEN IS THIS HOW IS THIS HAPPENING Today Gina Trapani , Director of Engineering at Postlight, writes about one of the web-development industry’s most complicated relationships —its long-term, complex, co-dependent, and often frustrating relationship with WordPress, which, lest you forget, is the generative force behind a massive percentage of the web pages in this world. But not every nail needs a fully-custom hammer.

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thanks!

Oct 18 Tweets

@nwsltrMe @richziade @PostlightStudio thanks!

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...SO FAR

Oct 18 Tweets

@tomcoates @mathowie @ev @anildash @aaronlammer @GlennF @craigmod ...

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South by South Give Me My Damn Maple Syrup

By Paul Ford Oct 9

South by South Give Me My Damn Maple Syrup Product and Politics on the White House Lawn By Paul Ford , co-founder, Postlight Last Monday, Postlight co-founder Rich Ziade and I attended South by South Lawn , the White House’s take on South by Southwest . In many ways the event resembled Any Old Technology Conference — lots of small tents showcasing various organizations and projects, and a booth sponsored by Starbucks.

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Introducing an Awesome CMS List

By Paul Ford Oct 2

Introducing an Awesome CMS List Jeremy Mack , Director of Engineering at Postlight, recently compiled a list of interesting, exciting, and popular content management systems— Awesome Content Management Systems . He writes : Headless content management systems are gaining popularity.

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Friday Links: Design Edition

By Paul Ford Sep 29

Friday Links: Design Edition Here are the most interesting links this week from our design department. Thanks to Matt Quintanilla .

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Clover Newsletter—Turning over a new leaf (or four) with founders Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis

By Paul Ford Sep 26

New media on old platforms: this week Paul and Rich talk to Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis, former teen magazine editors who launched “Clover,” a daily topical newsletter and app for girls ages 13-22, early this year. They discuss their former employers’ struggles adapt to the internet age, the email behavior of today’s teenagers, nostalgia for Google Reader, inadvertently building a community, and sexism in the venture capital world.

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jack.

Sep 25 Tweets

@jackrusher @maureenflaherty @Choire jack.

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Really nice story of data processing millions of stars...

By Paul Ford Sep 22 Tweets

Really nice story of data processing millions of stars “Torrenting the galaxy” by @flimshaw @flimshaw /torrenting-the-galaxy-extracting-2-million-3d-stars-from-180gb-of-csvs-457ff70c0f93? source=twitterShare-168dab556633-1474547280" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.

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My Co-Founder, the Skittle

By Paul Ford Sep 20

I am the co-founder of a 38-person New York City software company called Postlight. The other co-founder, Rich Ziade, was born in Lebanon. In the ...

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My Co-Founder, the Skittle

By Paul Ford Sep 20

My Co-Founder, the Skittle I am the co-founder of a 38-person New York City software company called Postlight . The other co-founder, Rich Ziade , was born in Lebanon.

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Podcast #31: “See media for pic” — a conversation on emergency alerts

By Paul Ford Sep 19

Podcast #31: “See media for pic” — a conversation on emergency alerts Terrorism and technology: This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about a host of topics in the wake of the past weekend’s bombing in Manhattan. They cover the state of the city and the collective reaction of its residents, the ease of international communication in the digital age, and the emergency alert that went out early Monday morning that named the suspected perpetrator and said simply, “See media for pic.

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“See media for pic”—a conversation on emergency alerts

By Paul Ford Sep 19

Terrorism and technology: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about a host of topics in the wake of the past weekend’s bombing in Manhattan. They cover the state of the city and the collective reaction of its residents, the ease of international communication in the digital age, and the emergency alert that went out early Monday morning that named the suspected perpetrator and said simply, “See media for pic.

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September 17, 2016 - Breakfast

Sep 17

I keep getting through breakfast and starting to track and then trailing off. The doctor says: Your cholesterol is elevated and you are pre-diabetic.

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Making It Work: Instant.me

By Paul Ford Sep 14

A few months ago, Time Inc. — the home of some of the biggest consumer publishing brands in the world—asked Postlight if we could help build a new kind of ...

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Counterpoint: If your big company wants to innovate, hire whiny crybabies

By Paul Ford Sep 13

Counterpoint: If your big company wants to innovate, hire whiny crybabies By Rich Ziade , co-founder, Postlight Phone: Zeynep Demir / Shutterstock. com On Monday, my Postlight co-founder Paul Ford wrote an article here asserting that we shouldn’t be surprised that a big, hulking company like Apple can’t unleash a game-changing piece of technology in 2016 because…well…it’s big, and hulking, and really more motivated to make big bags of money than change the world.

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A New New New Thing?

By Paul Ford Sep 12

There’s an inevitable news cycle around Apple events: The company launches something, like the iPhone 7, building on or deeply integrated with their ...

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Podcast #30: Brightcove, Big City—Talking video with David Mendels

By Paul Ford Sep 12

Podcast #30: Brightcove, Big City—Talking video with David Mendels Image courtesy of David Mendels Our all-video future: This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to David Mendels , the CEO of the video-hosting platform Brightcove . They discuss video’s rise and its current dominance on the web, eSports , “snackable video,” Rich’s relationship with his cable bill, and Pokémon GO.

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Brightcove, Big City—talking video with David Mendels

By Paul Ford Sep 12

Our all-video future: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to David Mendels, the CEO of the video-hosting platform Brightcove. They discuss video’s rise and current dominance on the web, esports, “snackable video,” Rich’s relationship with his cable bill, and Pokémon GO (“There’s, like, a Bulbasaur by our bathroom,” Paul says of Postlight’s offices.

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A New New New Thing?

By Paul Ford Sep 11

A New New New Thing? There’s an inevitable news cycle around Apple events: The company launches something, like the iPhone 7, building on or deeply integrated with their existing incredibly successful product line.

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Friday Links: Design Edition

By Paul Ford Sep 8

Friday Links: Design Edition Here are the most interesting links this week from our design department. Thanks to Matt Quintanilla .

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Gina Trapani on Postlight’s Friendly Bot

By Paul Ford Sep 6

Gina Trapani on Postlight’s Friendly Bot We have a nice chatbot at Postlight who helps us with our work. Today Director of Engineering Gina Trapani explains what the bot is , and how helpful it can be.

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Friday Links: Product Edition

By Paul Ford Sep 1

Friday Links: Product Edition In the pattern library Here are the most interesting links this week from our product department. Thanks to Tyler Strand .

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Three Algorithm Reads

By Paul Ford Aug 31

“How algorithms rule our working lives,” by Cathy O’Neil, in the Guardian: These algorithmic “solutions” are targeted at genuine problems. School ...

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Three Algorithm Reads

By Paul Ford Aug 31

Three Algorithm Reads “ How algorithms rule our working lives ,” by Cathy O’Neil, in the Guardian : These algorithmic “solutions” are targeted at genuine problems. School principals cannot be relied upon to consistently flag problematic teachers, because those teachers are also often their friends.

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Twine as a Process Modeling Tool

By Paul Ford Aug 30

Twine is a tool that lets you make point-and-click games that run in a web browser—what a lot of people refer to as “choose your own adventure” or CYOA ...

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Twine as a Process Modeling Tool

By Paul Ford Aug 30

Twine as a Process Modeling Tool Twine is a tool that lets you make point-and-click games that run in a web browser—what a lot of people refer to as “choose your own adventure” or CYOA games. It’s pretty easy to make a game, which means that the Twine community is fairly big and diverse.

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Rational Geographic—Map Chat with Aaron Straup Cope

By Paul Ford Aug 29

The history and the future of geotagging: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Aaron Straup Cope, a programmer who works with maps and geographical datasets. The conversation covers his time as one of Flickr’s earliest employees, data visualization, gazetteers, the evils of Walmart, geocoding (and reverse geocoding), and one of the most controversial decisions in online mapping—Google’s decision to cut off the poles and make the world a square.

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Podcast #28: Rational Geographic — Map Chat with Aaron Straup Cope

By Paul Ford Aug 29

Podcast #28: Rational Geographic — Map Chat with Aaron Straup Cope Image courtesy of Tom Coates The history and the future of geotagging: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Aaron Straup Cope, a programmer who works with maps and geographical datasets. The conversation covers his time as one of Flickr’s earliest employees, data visualization, gazetteers, the evils of Wal-Mart, geocoding (and reverse geocoding), and one of the most controversial decisions in online mapping — Google’s decision to cut off the poles and make the world a square.

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The Street View From the Cheap Seats

By Paul Ford Aug 24

The Street View From the Cheap Seats All it takes is for one person to visit Stockton As previously pointed out, there are interesting things happening in open-source geo right now . So here’s another interesting thing: OpenStreetView , which is a sort of open-source/crowd-sourced Google Street View but maintained by an independent company ( Telenav , TNAV on NASDAQ), referenced to the data in OpenStreetMap .

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Drew Bell on front-end engineering as a kind of translation

By Paul Ford Aug 23

Drew Bell on front-end engineering as a kind of translation Drew Bell is a front-end engineer at Postlight— a role he describes as “the awkward middle child of the development pipeline” —and one that requires a ton of conversation . In a platonic and pure (albeit heartless) engineering world, perhaps Drew would cheerfully accept designs and specifications and turn them into functioning app experiences that run in a web browser, with nary a peep or question.

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Podcast #27: Julia Pimsleur — Found in Translation

By Paul Ford Aug 22

Podcast #27: Julia Pimsleur — Found in Translation Image courtesy of Julia Pimsleur Helping women build million-dollar businesses: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Julia Pimsleur, founder of the Little Pim foreign language-learning series and author of Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big . They discuss her career trajectory, from documentary filmmaker to nonprofit fundraiser to entrepreneur, and talk about her experiences raising venture capital — and how the specific challenges for women in the VC world led her to start teaching other female entrepreneurs.

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Julia Pimsleur—Found in Translation

By Paul Ford Aug 22

Helping women build million-dollar businesses: this week Paul and Rich talk to Julia Pimsleur, founder of the Little Pim foreign language-learning series and author of Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big. They discuss her career trajectory, from documentary filmmaker to nonprofit fundraiser to entrepreneur, and talk about her experiences raising venture capital—and how the specific challenges for women in the VC world led her to start teaching other female entrepreneurs.

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A strange digital time capsule

By Paul Ford Aug 17

A strange digital time capsule Historical reënactment It’s a hectic news cycle so let’s take a look at an artifact of historical interest that has nothing to do with the current news cycle: A nearly two-hour battle between OS/2 and Windows NT . Another excellent Gene video production It was 1993.

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Podcast #26: This Is Haughey Do It

By Paul Ford Aug 15

Podcast #26: This Is Haughey Do It Photo courtesy Summer Wilson The evolution of MetaFilter : this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter, the collection of sites and communities that Paul describes as “one of the real success stories of the web. ” The conversation covers Matt’s early career at Pyra Labs, the accessibility of digital technologies, his current job as a writer for Slack , and how if you spend enough time publishing online, you’ll inevitably attract the attention of two groups — trolls and lawyers.

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This Is Haughey Do It

By Paul Ford Aug 15

The evolution of MetaFilter: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter, the collection of sites and communities that Paul describes as “one of the real success stories of the web. ” The conversation covers Matt’s early career at Pyra Labs, the accessibility of digital technologies, his current job as a writer for Slack, and how if you spend enough time publishing online, you’ll inevitably attract the attention of two groups — trolls and lawyers.

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Friday Links: Product Edition

By Paul Ford Aug 11

Friday Links: Product Edition Here are the most interesting links this week from our product department (and elsewhere in Postlight). Thanks to Tyler Strand .

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August 10, 2016 - Breakfast

Aug 10

Food Qty Calories Cheese, American, 1 slice 60 Egg, large 90 Pineapple, 1 c. 2 164 Roll, 1 hot dog roll 110 Tomato, , 1 c.

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Janet Kim on Product as Marketing

By Paul Ford Aug 9

Janet Kim on Product as Marketing Janet Kim is a Product Designer at Postlight. She recently went to a conference in Brooklyn and heard a talk by Gene Liebel about the nuts and bolts of product as a business—the way that digital products (like apps) can supplant and enhance relationships with users, in measurable ways that supplant advertising—but at much less cost.

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Podcast #25: Elizabeth Spiers is Multi-dimensional

By Paul Ford Aug 8

Podcast #25: Elizabeth Spiers is Multi-dimensional Image courtesy of Elizabeth Spiers From digital journalism to virtual reality: this week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Elizabeth Spiers , whom Paul describes as “both a human being and essentially a human media platform. ” (Elizabeth scales the description back a bit with “digital media nerd.

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Elizabeth Spiers is Multi-dimensional

By Paul Ford Aug 8

From digital journalism to virtual reality: this week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Elizabeth Spiers, whom Paul describes as “both a human being and essentially a human media platform. ” (Elizabeth scales the description back a bit with “digital media nerd.

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Hi, Adewale.

By Paul Ford Aug 8

Hi, Adewale. I’m not really asking for anyone to do anything, nor do I expect Google to do anything in particular—I’m just noting the gap between where the platform is and where it could be.

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We’re Bullish on AMP

By Paul Ford Aug 7

Google is now planning to show AMP links everywhere in its mobile search results — that is to say, in a place that probably drives a lot of traffic to ...

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We’re Bullish on AMP

By Paul Ford Aug 7

We’re Bullish on AMP A little on-the-nose but what can you do. By Paul Ford, Co-founder, Postlight Google is now planning to show AMP links everywhere in its mobile search results — that is to say, in a place that probably drives a lot of traffic to your site.

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Friday Links: Engineering Edition

By Paul Ford Aug 4

Friday Links: Engineering Edition Here are the most interesting links this week from our engineering department. (You might notice that we do a lot of React development.

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Selected VHS Covers

By Paul Ford Aug 2

Selected VHS Covers By Paul Ford, Co-founder, Postlight VHS boxes never made it into the “unique art form” category in the same way that vinyl record album sleeves did. Album sleeves were a foot square on a side—room to play for a graphic designer.

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Podcast #24: Event Verizon

By Paul Ford Aug 1

Podcast #24: Event Verizon Verizon just bought Yahoo, but what exactly did they get? This week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade discuss the acquisition of the beleaguered Yahoo, and mull over the long games of companies like Verizon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.

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Event Verizon

By Paul Ford Aug 1

Verizon just bought Yahoo, but what exactly did they get? This week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade discuss the acquisition of the beleaguered Yahoo, and mull over the long games of companies like Verizon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.

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World of Water Parks

By Paul Ford Jul 31

World of Water Parks By Paul Ford, co-founder, Postlight I’m the father to four-year-old twins and sometimes we chill out with YouTube videos. Being four, when they like something they want more of the same— but also a little novelty.

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Podcast #23: The DNA of NDAs

By Paul Ford Jul 25

Podcast #23: The DNA of NDAs Do we need so many NDAs? This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade discuss the proliferation of the non-disclosure agreement in the tech world and beyond, and hammer out what’s really necessary in a business contract.

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Podcast #22: Karen McGrane — Content and discontent

By Paul Ford Jul 18

Podcast #22: Karen McGrane — Content and discontent Photograph: Erik Westra How does a content strategist see the web? This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Karen McGrane , a user-experience expert who writes books, gives speeches, leads workshops, and takes on a variety of web projects with her agency Bond Art + Science.

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Karen McGrane—Content and discontent

By Paul Ford Jul 18

How does a content strategist see the web? This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Karen McGrane, a user-experience expert who writes books, gives speeches, leads workshops, and takes on a variety of web projects with her agency Bond Art + Science.

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NYC tech, part ∞

By Paul Ford Jul 17

NYC tech, part ∞ Debby Wong / Shutterstock. com Two articles about NYC tech showed up recently—the first by Matt Turck, a VC—“ The NYC Tech Ecosystem: Catching Up to the Hype ” [O]n the one hand, NYC has become the clear Number 2 to the Bay Area; on the other hand, it’s hard not to notice that things have gone a bit quiet — at a minimum, we seem to be past the stage of unbridled enthusiasm….

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Friday* Links: Engineering Edition

By Paul Ford Jul 15

Friday* Links: Engineering Edition * Thanks for Medium for help with a glitch. It’s Saturday but here we are, with some links from our engineering department.

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Gina Trapani talks about Black Girls CODE with NYC Chapter Lead Onyi Nwosu

By Paul Ford Jul 12

Gina Trapani talks about Black Girls CODE with NYC Chapter Lead Onyi Nwosu Image courtesy of Onyi Nwosu’s Instagram Postlight’s Director of Engineering Gina Trapani writes : This past weekend here at Postlight, we had the chance to host an event for Black Girls CODE’s NYC chapter. The Black Futures STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Panel featured six young women of color sharing their experiences in science, technology, engineering, and math with an audience of middle- to high- school girls and their parents.

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Podcast #21: Mayer Lemons — a chat about Yahoo’s recent acquisitions

By Paul Ford Jul 11

Podcast #21: Mayer Lemons — a chat about Yahoo’s recent acquisitions Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo acquisitions: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade start the discussion with a recent Gizmodo article by the very talented Sophie Kleeman about the fate of all 53 companies Yahoo has purchased under Mayer’s leadership. Topics covered include acqui-hires, managing up v.

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Mayer Lemons—a chat about Yahoo’s recent acquisitions

By Paul Ford Jul 11

Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo acquisitions: this week Paul and Rich start the discussion with a recent Gizmodo article about the fate of all 53 companies Yahoo has purchased under Mayer’s leadership. Topics covered include acqui-hires, managing up vs managing down, Silicon Valley’s disdain for humans doing normal human things, and Rich’s favorite Yahoo acquisition, Summly.

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sure!

Jul 9 Tweets

@garychou @xuhulk @karenmcgrane sure!

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Friday Links: Design Edition

By Paul Ford Jul 7

Friday Links: Design Edition Here are the most interesting links this week from our design department. Thanks to Matt Quintanilla .

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Rex Sorgatz—the other side of Fate

By Paul Ford Jul 4

Has the internet changed everything? This week Rich and Paul talk to writer and media strategist Rex Sorgatz, who wrote recently about returning to his small North Dakota hometown to see how (or if!

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Podcast #19: The Silence of the Cams

By Paul Ford Jun 27

Podcast #19: The Silence of the Cams Who will hear the brands when Facebook mutes their videos? Your silent Facebook feed: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about how video has taken over Facebook — and about how, according to Digiday , 85% of those videos are viewed silently.

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Cutting Ship Risk

By Paul Ford Jun 26

The most monosyllabic way to summarize the job of software product management is: “cut ship risk.” Software projects all start as golden towers of dreams ...

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Friday Links: Engineering Edition

By Paul Ford Jun 23

Friday Links: Engineering Edition Image by Pretty Vectors/Shutterstock. Here are the five most interesting links this week from our engineering department.

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The world’s best sleepy-time media

By Paul Ford Jun 22

The world’s best sleepy-time media In 2016 it is a normal thing to go to bed with earphones in your ears and your phone playing something soothing. Washes of noise are never far away—for example, you can listen to crashing waves on Spotify (that track I just linked has nearly 14 million listens).

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Podcast #18: Virginia Heffernan — Magic, Loss, and Mercy-killing Horses

By Paul Ford Jun 20

Podcast #18: Virginia Heffernan — Magic, Loss, and Mercy-killing Horses Aesthetics and digital technology: this week Paul and Rich talk to writer Virginia Heffernan about her new book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art . The conversation covers Buddhism, Angry Birds (my babies ), The 4-Hour Workweek , nuclear war, ancient philosophy, Bay Ridge, and wild horses.

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Virginia Heffernan—Magic, Loss, and Mercy Killing Horses

By Paul Ford Jun 20

Aesthetics and digital technology: this week Paul and Rich talk to writer Virginia Heffernan about her new book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art. The conversation covers Buddhism, Angry Birds, The 4-Hour Workweek, nuclear war, ancient philosophy, Bay Ridge, and wild horses.

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Some Useful-ish Internet-ish Glossaries

By Paul Ford Jun 19

Some Useful-ish Internet-ish Glossaries By Paul Ford, Co-founder, Postlight Image by aekikuis /Shutterstock I’ve always found that when you get thrown into a new situation that glossaries and dictionaries are useful tools. Most things aren’t that hard to understand if you know the words.

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Pattern

By Paul Ford Jun 17

Pattern This afternoon I was coming back from the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. Near my apartment building I saw two people helping an old lady who fell down in the street.

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Friday Links: Design Edition

By Paul Ford Jun 16

Friday Links: Design Edition Here are the five most interesting links this week from the Postlight Design team’s chat logs. Thanks to Matt Quintanilla .

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Podcast #17: Paul and Rich Exchange Frank Views

By Paul Ford Jun 13

Podcast #17: Paul and Rich Exchange Frank Views This week Paul and Rich set out to ostensibly talk about the ongoing saga of Gawker vs Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel (recorded just days before the Gawker bankruptcy announcement ). Instead, they find themselves debating about the ethics of media and business, free-market capitalism, surge pricing, universal basic income, the ethos of the Valley — and Rich promises Paul that he will never read The Fountainhead .

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9 Things Microsoft Could Do With LinkedIn

By Paul Ford Jun 12

9 Things Microsoft Could Do With LinkedIn By Paul Ford, Co-founder, Postlight LinkedIn Image (c) Asif Islam/Shutterstock//Microsoft Image (c) Pabkov / Shutterstoc k Microsoft Corp. said it will buy LinkedIn Corp.

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Open-source geo is really something right now

By Paul Ford Jun 8

Open-source geo is really something right now In March a helpful Internet person named Michal Migurski tweeted : Want to help @openaddr derive a parcel dataset for the US? I know of funding for a quick development project.

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Khoi Vinh—from Subtraction to Adobe

By Paul Ford Jun 6

Design and spotting talent from The New York Times to Adobe: this week Paul and Rich sit down with designer Khoi Vinh, who is currently the director of product design for mobile at Adobe. They trace his career from his early agency in New York to his years as design director of newyorktimes.

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Are You My Digital Product Studio?

By Paul Ford Jun 5

Like any liberal art prone to budget cuts, the advertising industry is autothanatophilic — erotically attracted to its own death. So there’s lots of juicy ...

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The Whole Spy’s Guide to the Internet

By Paul Ford Jun 1

The Whole Spy’s Guide to the Internet Muckrock requested, via a Freedom of Information act request , a copy of a book called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research , the author of which is, um, Name Redacted — because the book, at 600+ pages, was written for the use of the United States National Security Agency. Muckrock is kind of down on this guide, which came out in 2007.

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Q&A

By Paul Ford May 30

Google’s UX, tech in the classroom, and Spotify’s algorithms: this week Rich and Paul answer a host of listener questions and comments. Topics discussed include the abysmal UX of Google’s ad products, Amazon’s strategies for world domination, the digital technologies in today’s elementary schools, and what exactly Spotify’s Discover Weekly thinks of Paul and Rich.

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Podcast #15: Q&A

By Paul Ford May 30

Podcast #15: Q&A Photo by Flickr user emagic Rich Ziade and Paul Ford answer listener questions and respond to listener comments. Topics discussed include: The abysmal UX of Google’s ad products; Amazon’s strategies for world domination; the digital technologies in today’s elementary schools; and what exactly Spotify’s Discover Weekly thinks of Paul and Rich.

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Friday Links: Design Edition

By Paul Ford May 26

Friday Links: Design Edition Five links from our ongoing office chat thread on design, as compiled by Chloe Olewitz with snarky edits by Paul Ford. 4 1/Draplin Design Co.

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Automatic for the Sheeple

By Paul Ford May 25

Automatic for the Sheeple By Paul Ford, co-founder, Postlight How to react to a nuclear explosion, from EPA. gov The famed venture capitalist Peter Thiel further sealed his identity as a Silicon Valley supervillain by revealing that, yes, as had been reported, he funded the lawsuit that wrestler Hulk Hogan successfully pursued against media company Gawker.

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Automatic for the Sheeple

By Paul Ford May 25

The famed venture capitalist Peter Thiel further sealed his identity as a Silicon Valley supervillain by revealing that, yes, as had been reported, he ...

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Podcast #14: Natalie Podrazik—iOS developer and user-research spy

By Paul Ford May 23

Podcast #14: Natalie Podrazik—iOS developer and user-research spy Photo courtesy Natalie Podrazik Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Natalie Podrazik about, in Paul’s words, “the gestalt of iOS programming. ” Natalie traces her journey from studying comp-sci to backend programming to developing for Apple devices, where the title “engineer” often encompasses design and user experience alongside writing code.

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What Giants Can’t See

By Paul Ford May 22

Sculpture, “Riese” by Ervin Hervé-Lóránth, 2015, Berlin-Mitte, Germany CC BY-SA 3.0 The web platform has entered a period of relative stability — HTML5 ...

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What Giants Can’t See

By Paul Ford May 22

What Giants Can’t See Sculpture, “ Riese ” by Ervin Hervé-Lóránth , 2015, Berlin-Mitte , Germany CC BY-SA 3. 0 The web platform has entered a period of relative stability — HTML5 and similar technologies are here to stay.

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Two quick advertisements + something about demos

By Paul Ford May 16

“Hold-And-Modify” Two quick advertisements + something about demos First advertisement The Postlight newsletter has been a little sporadic these last two weeks. That’s because we’re busy—and growing.

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Simulations!

By Paul Ford May 10

Simulations! Bottling plant, the most boring game in the world Computers can be programmed to simulate aspects of physical and cultural reality.

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Podcast #12: A little chat about terrible failure

By Paul Ford May 9

Podcast #12: A little chat about terrible failure Click the exploding rocket to hear the podcast ►iTunes / ►SoundCloud / ►Overcast / ►Stitcher / ►WWW(MP3) / ►RSS This week, Paul and Rich try to define success and failure in business, the tech industry, and their lives. The result is part topical conversation (Apple, Yahoo, the penetrating gaze of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes) and part therapy session.

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Too Something? To Fail

By Paul Ford May 9

How do you define success—or failure? This week, Paul and Rich tackle ideas about failure in business, the tech industry, and their lives.

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Not OK, Computer

By Paul Ford May 6

The middle-aged band Radiohead has mostly erased its Internet presence—Twitter, Facebook, website, etc. Here’s the news (breathless!) from Pitchfork: ...

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Not OK, Computer

By Paul Ford May 5

Not OK, Computer How great is Google Image search? The middle-aged band Radiohead has mostly erased its Internet presence —Twitter, Facebook, website, etc.

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Things breaking and changing

By Paul Ford May 4

Things breaking and changing US Navy Photograph “Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft,” Nature : The spacecraft then automatically switched into a safe mode and, at about 4:10 a. m.

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Khoi Vinh is going to swing by Postlight tonight at 6:30PM

By Paul Ford Apr 27

Khoi Vinh is going to swing by Postlight tonight at 6:30PM This is what Khoi sees when he looks at things Postlight is going to do a Q&A tonight with Khoi Vinh. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard , and co-founder of Kidpost (Kidpost comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if you have small children and parents on the Internet).

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Thinking a little differently about Apple TV

By Paul Ford Apr 26

Thinking a little differently about Apple TV Not long ago James Wen , an engineer here at Postlight , took some time to learn his way around Apple TV. He is an experienced iOS developer, writing apps for iPhones and iPads, and he came to Apple TV with that perspective.

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Consequence Management Systems

By Paul Ford Apr 24

There’s an activist and columnist named Shaun King. He writes from a progressive position about social justice and race, which makes him a target of much ...

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Consequence Management Systems

By Paul Ford Apr 24

Consequence Management Systems CC licensed There’s an activist and columnist named Shaun King . He writes from a progressive position about social justice and race, which makes him a target of much criticism on and off the Internet.

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Finding an old CD-ROM and a terrible Diablo rap

By Paul Ford Apr 21

Finding an old CD-ROM and a terrible Diablo rap No really you want to click here and see this Diablo-based rap Kevin Barrett , a Senior Engineer at Postlight, wrote a short essay about a subject dear to our hearts : Legacy data, when that legacy data is your very own life. There are services (Facebook, TimeHop) that trot out your past, but they show you what you’ve already made public.

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April 21, 2016 - Lunch

Apr 21

Cadged from stuff. Food Qty Calories Cookie, one small cookie 3 198 Grits, uncooked, 1 c.

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April 21, 2016 - Breakfast

Apr 21

DIDN'T FIT IN TABLE so that's always good. Food Qty Calories 100-calorie unit of flavor 2 200 Granola, 1 c.

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Google image search is the true search

By Paul Ford Apr 19

Google image search is the true search Here’s what happens when you search for “inspirational quote” on Google: Okay, so that links me to a bunch of sites with inspirational quotes, where presumably my inspirational quotes needs would be fully met. But what about when you look at just images?

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Podcast #9: Camille and Kellan are Friends (and CTOs)

By Paul Ford Apr 18

Podcast #9: Camille and Kellan are Friends (and CTOs) This week Paul and Rich talk to two former chief technology officers (CTOs) who are also good friends and frequent collaborators: Camille Fournier , who was previously at Rent the Runway , and Kellan Elliott-McCrea , who was previously at Etsy . They discuss the role of the CTO within a company, share experiences from the trenches, compare their experiences managing engineers versus managing CEOS, and swap stories about the most colossal technical outages that happened on their respective watches (Kellan took down Yahoo Messenger [literally]; Camille ruined everyone’s Thanksgiving [well a network switch was reconfigured, it was a bad day]).

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It’s Hard to Name Web Aesthetic Movements

By Paul Ford Apr 17

It’s Hard to Name Web Aesthetic Movements There’s a site, Brutalist Web Sites , that aggregates websites that look kind of raw—that show their seams. The citizens of Hacker News, where I (this is Paul) found the link this morning, immediately undertook to argue whether the sites shown are truly Brutalist or not—but of course, as Wikipedia points out (after some arguments of its own ), there is no one clear true definition of Brutalism.

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Meet the Lux Framework!

By Paul Ford Apr 14

Meet the Lux Framework! Some nice timber framing to get across the idea that this is a framework If you program you know what a framework is—a set of pre-coded utilities and routines that make it easy for programmers to attack a certain problem in a consistent manner.

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Meet the Lux Framework!

By Paul Ford Apr 14

A few years ago I was working for a very lean web startup. The team consisted of myself and my father and neither of us could write code. Sure I dabbled a ...

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Apr 14 Tweets

@Lalabadie @hello_skyler right?

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Some interesting patterns

By Paul Ford Apr 12

Some interesting patterns Because I (Paul) am a huge nerd this newsletter often talks more about engineering and product development. Postlight is, however, just as dedicated to design as engineering.

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Podcast #8: Takin’ it Meta

By Paul Ford Apr 11

Podcast #8: Takin’ it Meta An exceptionally meta keyboard for the Symbolics LISP machine This week Paul and Rich make a podcast about making a podcast — or more specifically, about the difficulties of publishing content on disparate platforms across the web. They discuss native advertising versus more traditional marketing, and Rich asks for clarification: “I just need to know Paul Ford hasn’t whored himself out.

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Between a double and the deep blue sea

By Paul Ford Apr 10

Between a double and the deep blue sea Things were much easier then There’s this company called MaxMind. If you were a web nerd in the early 2000s you probably know them: Since around 2000 they’ve released software that turns Internet addresses into geographic locations.

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ASMR as a Platform

By Paul Ford Apr 7

ASMR as a Platform Today’s newsletter topic comes from Kevin Barrett , a senior software engineer at Postlight. In a post here on Track Changes he wrote about ASMR—“a silly medicalish retronym that some clever pseudoscientist coined to diagnose — and keep in mind that ASMR is nothing if not hand-wavey — that tingly feeling in the back of your head .

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Commenting on Data Leaks

By Paul Ford Apr 5

Still life with Leeks (Carl Schuch) Have you heard about the Panama Papers? Or seen the Panama Papers website? Or seen the #panamapapers hashtag? Or read ...

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Commenting on leaks

By Paul Ford Apr 5

Commenting on leaks Still life with Leeks (Carl Schuch) Have you heard about the Panama Papers ? Or seen the Panama Papers website ?

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Podcast #7: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 2

By Paul Ford Apr 4

Podcast #7: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 2 Click on this to hear the podcast We finish our conversation with Dean Hachamovitch, and while we start out making fun of Clippy, we end up discussing conversational interfaces, security and privacy, and the responsibilities of software development. As Rich puts it, “I just want to congratulate everyone here for smoothly weaving Clippy into some NPR-ish conversation.

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Laughter Doesn’t Scale

By Paul Ford Mar 31

It’s April Fools’ Day on the Internet! Once, years ago, this was a fun day when people made stupid, nerdy jokes. Take, for example, “A Standard for the ...

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Podcast #6: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 1

By Paul Ford Mar 28

Podcast #6: The Man Who Killed Clippy, Part 1 ►iTunes /► SoundCloud / ►Overcast / ►Stitcher / ►WWW / ►RSS / ►MP3 In the first of a two-part episode, Paul and Rich talk to Dean Hachamovitch, the former corporate vice president for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. In this installment, we talk about what that job is like on day one, and how to motivate a large team working on a massive scale.

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Mar 27 Tweets

@mathowie @waxpancake true!

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Meet Tay

By Paul Ford Mar 24

It’s a big time for bots, as readers of this blog know. They’re in our Twitter and our Slacks. Never one to lag too far behind, Microsoft released to ...

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Lessons learned: Ember to React

By Paul Ford Mar 22

Lessons learned: Ember to React Aaron Ortbals is a Senior Engineer at Postlight who recently wrote a very interesting essay about learning React . React is a toolkit/framework that makes it easier to build web applications (i.

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Some (other) interesting newsletters

By Paul Ford Mar 20

Some (other) interesting newsletters If you like Postlight’s newsletter, you may enjoy these: Image from “The Above Chart Manifesto" Scott Klein, “Above Chart ” Brand new! Just started!

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Technology in distress

By Paul Ford Mar 17

Technology in distress A small collection of interesting images. This has been the Track Changes newsletter for Friday, March 18, 2016, brought to you by Postlight , a web-and-app product shop in NYC.

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Interfaces over time

By Paul Ford Mar 16

Interfaces over time On Tuesday night at our Postlight session Dean Hachamovitch talked about his decades building software like MSWord and Internet Explorer. He also explained the origin of the keyboard shortcut “Control-K” to insert a hyperlink—it was a reference to the final “k” in hyperlin K.

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Podcast #4: Anil Dash, Entrepreneur to Activist

By Paul Ford Mar 14

Podcast #4: Anil Dash, Entrepreneur to Activist Paul and Rich talk to entrepreneur-turned-activist Anil Dash about the early days of the web, access and inclusivity, and the ethical responsibilities of the people who build digital technologies. Plus we try to settle how much you should tip on a New York City cab ride — no matter what the interface.

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Anil Dash, Capitalist to Activist

By Paul Ford Mar 14

Ethics and access on the web: in this week’s episode, Paul and Rich talk to entrepreneur-turned-activist Anil Dash about the early days of the web, access and inclusivity, and the ethical responsibilities of the people who build digital technologies. Plus they try to settle how much you should tip on a New York City cab ride—no matter what the interface.

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The Life and Death of Clippy

By Paul Ford Mar 13

The Life and Death of Clippy Tomorrow night, at 6:30PM, Dean Hachamovitch will come by Postlight and talk about his work over several decades at Microsoft. You’re invited!

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Star Profile: Photos by Darrell Hanley

By Paul Ford Mar 10

Star Profile: Photos by Darrell Hanley Every two weeks at Postlight one employee is named “Star of the Week. ” They are granted certain playlist and food-ordering privileges, given a balloon, toasted at a happy hour, and sort of generally appreciated for their contributions.

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I Miss Staging

By Paul Ford Mar 9

Photo by Струјајое The days of setting up your own CMS and publishing all your stuff on your own site are, for now at least, over. Your CMS isn’t social, ...

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I miss staging

By Paul Ford Mar 9

I miss staging Something important has gone missing from our magical multi-platform content distribution future Photo by Струјајое The days of setting up your own CMS and publishing all your stuff on your own site are, for now at least, over. Your CMS isn’t social, is the problem.

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I think that’s what I keep coming back to—the fantasy that it “just works” and then the inevitable…

By Paul Ford Mar 9

I think that’s what I keep coming back to—the fantasy that it “just works” and then the inevitable appearance of an actual new job or ten for people just to manage the integration between all the platforms. The jobs you described are pretty noodgy and there are so many things humans could be doing to make things better aside from trying to bend to the will of software.

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Tracking down a cat GIF

By Paul Ford Mar 8

Tracking down a cat GIF I was struck by the level of detail in this amazing GIF of a cat destroying everything, forever: I saw the image first on Mlkshk . Curious, I looked the image up on the “reverse image search” service TinEye , and that led me to a page for the artist Oleg Beresnev on CreativeMarket.

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Tracking Down a Cat GIF

By Paul Ford Mar 8

I was struck by the level of detail in this amazing GIF of a cat destroying everything, forever: I saw the image first on Mlkshk. Curious, I looked the ...

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Track Changes Podcast #3: Make HTML Great Again (Transcript)

By Paul Ford Mar 7

Track Changes Podcast #3: Make HTML Great Again (Transcript) The transcript for Track Changes #3 , a comparison of presidential websites Paul Ford: Hi and welcome to Track Changes, the official podcast of the Postlight Agency. We’re a product shop in New York City.

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“Postlight Posts” is no more

By Paul Ford Mar 7

“Postlight Posts” is no more We renamed this newsletter to Track Changes , like our podcast. Then we moved everything over to a new Medium collection .

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Global App Madness

By Paul Ford Mar 7

Global App Madness Executive summary: App economies Originally published at posts. postlight.

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Usable Data

By Paul Ford Mar 7

Usable Data Alexandria on a bad day Originally published to posts. postlight.

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Global App Madness

By Paul Ford Mar 7

Executive summary: App economies This article in The Verge by Casey Newton is a useful primer on where apps are now. It tells the story of a small company ...

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When the Chips Are Up

By Paul Ford Mar 7

Bloomberg Businessweek has a profile of the executive manager who oversees Apple’s secretive microchip development wing. He’s an Israeli Arab Christian ...

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When the chips are up

By Paul Ford Mar 7

When the chips are up The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries) Originally published on posts. postlight.

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Presidential web platforms ranked

By Paul Ford Mar 6

What does your CMS say about your chances as a presidential candidate? “The last couple election cycles, your typical Republican website looked like it was ten years older than it was, and was prepared by dogs.

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Global App Madness

By Paul Ford Mar 6

Global App Madness Executive summary: App economies This article in The Verge by Casey Newton is a useful primer on where apps are now. It tells the story of a small company called Pixite that makes mobile apps, and is facing declining revenues from the Apple app store.

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Caricatures

By Paul Ford Mar 2

Caricatures Some nights I can’t sleep after a long day building digital platforms for large or growing organizations. A good insomniac activity is searching through texts, organized in reverse chronological order , on Archive.

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Fun Photoshop File Format Facts

By Paul Ford Mar 1

Fun Photoshop File Format Facts The way we used to be A typical computer file has some kind of format—a set of rules for how it should open, what can be changed, and what data gets saved. For example, HTML is a kind of file format.

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Fun Photoshop File Format Facts

By Paul Ford Mar 1

The way we used to be A typical computer file has some kind of format — a set of rules for how it should open, what can be changed, and what data gets ...

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Risks We Accept

By Paul Ford Feb 28

Risks We Accept Could a content management system help you avoid retractions? Welcome to the Postlight Newsletter for February 29th, 2016.

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Risks We Accept

By Paul Ford Feb 27

On February 17th, SB Nation, which is part of Vox Media , published a 12,000-word story that was bizarrely sympathetic to the convicted rapist Daniel ...

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Nine fine vines

By Paul Ford Feb 25

Nine Fine Vines Podcast Thanks for the feedback (praise and criticism), for our new podcast, TRACK CHANGES. To answer some questions: RSS is here: http://trackchanges.

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More bot thoughts & more

By Paul Ford Feb 23

More bot thoughts & more INSIDE: A leading question, more bot thoughts, a podcast teaser, GIF Battle links, random web links, and that’s actually it. It’s the Postlight Newsletter for Wednesday, February 24, 2016 — Subscribe here .

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Deep inside Facebook and Silicon Valley with Jon Lax

By Paul Ford Feb 23

From a design firm in Toronto to Facebook and Silicon Valley: on the first-ever episode of Track Changes, Postlight founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade introduce themselves and sit down with Jon Lax, director of product design at Facebook, to talk about his work and the culture of the Valley.

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Executives around the fire

By Paul Ford Feb 22

Executives around the fire Once a year the executives hold an offsite. When the 360-degree evaluations are done they gather by firelight, and tell stories about their email inboxes.

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Bot thoughts

By Paul Ford Feb 21

Bot thoughts Thoughts on an old bot and a column written by a new one. It’s the Postlight Newsletter for Monday, February 22, 2016 — Subscribe here .

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Maximalism, Digital

By Paul Ford Feb 18

Maximalism, Digital Postlight Newsletter for Friday, February 19, 2016 — Subscribe here Oh hell yes. It’s Friday!

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When the chips are up

By Paul Ford Feb 17

When the chips are up Postlight Newsletter for Thursday, February 18, 2016 — Subscribe here The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries) Bloomberg Businessweek has a profile of the executive manager who oversees Apple’s secretive microchip development wing . He’s an Israeli Arab Christian named Johny Srouji from Haifa.

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Usable Data

By Paul Ford Feb 16

Usable Data Alexandria on a bad day Corpora time! Here’s an article about processing 3.

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Deep Valley Thoughts & GIF Battle Updates

By Paul Ford Feb 10

Deep Valley Thoughts & GIF Battle Updates Postlight Newsletter for Thursday, February 11, 2016 — Subscribe here Journalist Chris Perkins reported on GIF Battle, a Postlight Experiment, for Mashable . He wrote: GIF Battle is the perfect game to play with your Internet friends when you’re procrastinating at work, thanks to its relatively short length.

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Technology Internship Salaries Considered

By Paul Ford Feb 9

Technology Internship Salaries Considered Postlight Newsletter for Wednesday, February 10, 2016 — Subscribe here A tweet by Tiffany Zhong , a VC, recently made the rounds and generated a great deal of discussion; it was even aggresplained (or exgragated) by Vox . An image attached to the tweet purported to show the monthly compensation of interns at large tech companies.

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A tiny essay on Twitter changing its feed algorithm

By Paul Ford Feb 8

A tiny essay on Twitter changing its feed algorithm Postlight Newsletter for Tuesday, February 9, 2016 — Subscribe here Source: Twitter brand assets “Twitter went into an uproar Friday after a BuzzFeed report that the social network was on the brink introducing an algorithmic, more Facebook-style feed…. Spend an entire day away from Twitter, and when you open the app again, you’ll see highlights from the day.

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Tech Ads @ Super Bowls

By Paul Ford Feb 7

Tech Ads @ Super Bowls Postlight Newsletter for Monday, February 8, 2016— Subscribe here I’m assembling this newsletter on Sunday morning before Super Bowl 50, and I have no idea what will happen when the Carolina Panthers face the Denver Broncos. I’m the co-founder (this is Paul ) who watches the game for the commercials; co-founder Rich , however, will be holed up in front of a large TV gritting his teeth and shaking his head.

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Enter the GIFBattle.zone!

By Paul Ford Jan 26

Two months ago the engineers, designers, and product managers at Postlight (our web-and-app agency in NYC) had a conversation about how the best part of ...