2018

3171 Tweets, 73 Publications

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The overall design on NY State Senate website is pretty...

Dec 18 Tweets

The overall design on NY State Senate website is pretty good and the auth flow on this form was solid (confusing on mobile when I first tried it though). I would definitely up font-size and make the type black on this form, with a little line-height.

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Laurie I got ISO 8879:1986 (Information processing -- Text...

Dec 18 Tweets

@seldo Laurie I got ISO 8879:1986 (Information processing -- Text and office systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language) on interlibrary loan in 1994 and photocopied the whole thing on an unsecured college photocopier and now you tell me that's USELESS?

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I just wonder what the subject line of this email...

By Paul Ford Dec 14 Tweets

I just wonder what the subject line of this email was: Subject: Effective immediately the COO may not fart on you Subject: Friday Town Hall on fake humping Subject: We must all work together to stop the culture of ball slapping Subject: Building a better, more inclusive Riot https://twitter.

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The thing about open stuff like RISC-V is it sort of seeps...

Dec 11 Tweets

The thing about open stuff like RISC-V is it sort of seeps in everywhere. If the future is lots of apps running on OSes then who cares; if the future is lots of VM+images/containers getting passed up and down and all around IoTish platforms over ridiculously high bandwidth, hmm.

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Design Gestures With Extraordinary Impact : A Conversation With Allan Chochinov

By Paul Ford Dec 3

There’s a Difference Between School and Real Life: This week on Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down with Allan Chochinov, chair of the MFA in Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts and founder of design network Core77. We talk about who is really teachable, building good design from huge problems, the vast applications of "design thinking", and how much time is wasted on meetings.

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Like I know things look bad out there but the lowering cost...

Nov 13 Tweets

Like I know things look bad out there but the lowering cost of storage, the progress in cloud tech, the vibrancy of the commons, and the spread of cheap SoCs is going to enable a million new businesses (for aliens to discover when they visit our empty skull-filled desert planet).

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Update: they ripped the ballot and it didn't scan so I had...

Nov 6 Tweets

Update: they ripped the ballot and it didn't scan so I had to do it twice and they froke and yelled at me because I was standing there with two ballots and I was fussy about it and my kids got to watch all of that and feed the ballot into the machine. Pretty normal voting.

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Anniversary of Leadership

By Paul Ford Oct 29

Don’t Add Bullshit To The World: In recent episodes you’ve heard from Paul, Rich, and various guests talk about scaling, ethics, design, and engineering — now it’s time to hear from Postlight’s other leaders. We discuss the diverse backgrounds of our leadership team, how have their roles have changed over time, and how we come together to make good software while shipping great products.

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Our CMS, Ourselves

By Paul Ford Oct 28

When we started Postlight, we quickly found ourselves in a pickle, with 25 full-time employees and our major client announcing chapter 11 bankruptcy, one ...

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Change is hard!

Oct 17 Tweets

@doriantaylor @karenmcgrane @hilarymarsh @richziade Change is hard!

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Announcing Upgrade!

By Paul Ford Oct 15

Creating a Language We Can Carry Forward: People get really good at bad habits. When we talk about digital transformation, we’re talking about more than software and systems — we’re dealing with how people work with software and with each other.

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“If you see that some idiot has given acid to a...

By Paul Ford Oct 15 Tweets

“If you see that some idiot has given acid to a five-year-old child you have to drop everything and call the police, an ambulance. ” It's just an unnatural act to see @mariabustillos go after Joan Didion in the era of everyone getting the same memo.

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I doubt anyone will do a thing except squeeze more revenue...

Oct 9 Tweets

I doubt anyone will do a thing except squeeze more revenue from the moist corpse of the society they're destroying while fantasizing that in doing so they are molding the world into their own image, in a Bataille-esque narcissistic erotic death waltz, but it's fun to contemplate!

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2040: “I accept this Nobel Prize on behalf of the millions...

Oct 9 Tweets

2040: “I accept this Nobel Prize on behalf of the millions of people who headed the call to respond to climate change and came together on [platform] to create a safe and more just future for all. ” OR “At [platform] we take your privacy s—” (doors burst, room floods, all flee).

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Okay inspired by this I followed along and after a few...

Oct 2 Tweets

@danbri @kidehen @melvincarvalho @KKjernsmo @RubenVerborgh @timberners_lee Okay inspired by this I followed along and after a few glitches I was able to get into the [Solid Community] login and establish an account and log in. Now that I'm in—it's earrrrrrrrly days.

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Agreed! Also I mean it's so many things, it's congressional...

Oct 2 Tweets

@waldojaquith Agreed! Also I mean it's so many things, it's congressional research, copyright, natl library, research library, historical archive, digital archive, museum, and partner to every other federal level information service, plus a global taxonomy/LMS standard bearer.

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Yes, absolutely! (And I mean, this is a @kzwa + team...

Oct 2 Tweets

@footnotesrising Yes, absolutely! (And I mean, this is a @kzwa + team special—but I also know she goes [correctly] full muppet arms crediting everyone else, up to and including the entire American people, when you praise her work, so I just fell back to Library as a Helpful Cosmic Entity.

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It's sort of sets the baseline in order to do all those...

Oct 1 Tweets

@livlab @librarycongress It's sort of sets the baseline in order to do all those things was my understanding—I guess it functions as policy, basically, and serves as a reference point for other plans around accessioning, general funding, project funding, etc, etc, over the next [many? ] years.

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I believe strongly in the role of local libraries; in...

Oct 1 Tweets

I believe strongly in the role of local libraries; in Brooklyn and elsewhere they're a conduit for many people from many walks of life to better their situation (or just relax, or think). LOC has a lot of amazing resources and it's special by design.

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At 5:50, 70 minutes into soothing an anxious little boy...

By Paul Ford Sep 12 Tweets

At 5:50, 70 minutes into soothing an anxious little boy (school) who can't sleep (tummy hurts, so thirsty, needs a brown blanket) I get him curled up with me on the couch and finally feel him stop twitching. A minute after that he wakes up and asks, was John Henry famous?

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Bad Blood: A Conversation on Megalomania in Silicon Valley

By Paul Ford Aug 27

Product is Humbling: This week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies In a Silicon Valley Startup, a book about “what can go wrong when you believe stuff”. Drawing comparisons to Wild Wild Country’s Baghwan and the late Steve Jobs, this episode discusses the founder of Theranos’ charisma within the culture of Silicon Valley.

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I would like to formally and publicly apologize to my...

By Paul Ford Aug 22 Tweets

I would like to formally and publicly apologize to my daughter for toasting her bagel so that it was too crunch. As she noted, now she will never have breakfast, and we will be late and miss the bus, and even if we had another bagel, she had already put the butter on this one.

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Getting Creative with Marketing: Rick Webb's Agency

By Paul Ford Aug 20

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: This week, Paul Ford and Gina Trapani sit down with Rick Webb , COO of Timehop , to discuss his 2015 book Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing . Rick lays out how anybody — even someone born in a ditch in Topeka — can start an agency.

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There's something so off about this picture. There's...

Aug 20 Tweets

There's something so off about this picture. There's something deeply horrific and eldritch about the room and the darkness and the way that Jackie O and Joe K are positioned with JFK, and yet it's just a mundane family photo, except it's the freaking Kennedy family.

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I'd argue that a big part of making it is when you start...

Aug 16 Tweets

I'd argue that a big part of making it is when you start the understand the actual differences between the thing you pretend you are and the real thing. The only way you can do that is through a mix of cruel self-evaluation, steady practice, and humiliatingly specific fantasies.

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The Innovator's Dilemma

By Paul Ford Aug 13

The Only Success that Matters: This week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziade discuss the figurative moats that protect companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google from competition. Has anybody really figured out how to disrupt their markets?

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Plus publishers insist on using their own utter shit...

Aug 13 Tweets

@max_read Plus publishers insist on using their own utter shit platforms instead of just using FB like a self-respecting brand that cared about social would. They just treat FB like shit and deserve to be punished while they die of stupidity.

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Facebook cares about brands and insofar as publishers are...

Aug 13 Tweets

@max_read Facebook cares about brands and insofar as publishers are brands they are valuable, as are celebrity dogs and sneakers. But they don't pay money, actually ASK for money, while really great brands like Smithfield Hams deliver great engagement free.

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I have a mental canon of that crazy bastard Fusilli who was...

Aug 12 Tweets

I have a mental canon of that crazy bastard Fusilli who was a HILARIOUS Pasta Yale student '73 who wrote great sketches for the Pasta Record/kept sending little pieces to his friends as they rose through the ranks at glossies, but undiagnosed bipolar kept catching up with him.

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First of all, when we talk about American history without...

Aug 7 Tweets

First of all, when we talk about American history without contextualizing the fact of AT&T's monopoly we are participating in a fallacy. It's no coincidence that American identity began to self-destruct in 1984, at the same time that a single monopolistic network was dismantled.

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Putting A Fine On Great Experience Design

By Paul Ford Jul 30

Great Experience Design Leads To Anti-Competitive Practices: In the wake of the EU’s decision to issue Google a $5 billion fine, Paul Ford and Rich Ziadetalk about how great experience design obliterates competition while antitrust laws cramp designers’ style. In between conversations about the ethics of being able to choose, we learn that Rich would die without being able to choose between Vietnamese and Italian coffee, and whispers that Postlight could be shipping an app to finally unite people who walk their cats on leashes.

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Basically I'm thinking like 30-story urban armories and...

Jul 22 Tweets

Basically I'm thinking like 30-story urban armories and with serious weapons and defenses but solar powered and with lots of room for living and scholarship plus millions of books. Libraries as a last line of defense when everything goes Purge.

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A NYC real estate broker keeps sending me unsolicited info...

By Paul Ford Jul 2 Tweets

A NYC real estate broker keeps sending me unsolicited info about this rental office space (in PowerPoint) and between the pictures on the wall and the “floor plan” and the fact that they've sent it like eight times I worry I'm in some kind of dream state and can't wake up. https://twitter.

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My daughter just got to the part in the graphic novel...

By Paul Ford Jul 1 Tweets

My daughter just got to the part in the graphic novel adaptation of Anne of Green Gables where Matthew dies and just showed it to me and said, “Daddy? ” so we had a little talk, but meanwhile I'm reliving my own grief about when Matthew died in Anne of Green Gables.

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Yes!

Jun 26 Tweets

@johnbattelle @azeem Yes!

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Ruby's!

Jun 21 Tweets

@jfeckstein @PostlightStudio Ruby's!

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So @mariabustillos is very big on the idea of the permanent...

Jun 19 Tweets

@livlab So @mariabustillos is very big on the idea of the permanent hashes making certain kinds of content/publication irrevocable which is very promising to me: The idea that a publication history can be authenticated by a decentralized store of hashes has cultural logic.

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An Earnest Blockchain: Manoush Zomorodi on Creativity and the Internet

By Paul Ford Jun 18

We sit down with the host of Zig Zag to talk about decentralization, feminism, and how the blockchain might fix journalism The creators of Zig Zag: Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant Capitalism, Journalism, and Women: This week Paul Ford and xarissa sit down with Manoush Zomorodi to talk about her new podcast, Zig Zag, and why she left a steady job at NYPR to create a media company on the blockchain. We chat about what it means to create a podcast on a technology no one really understands yet, the importance of owning your work, and how decentralized platforms are benefiting women.

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Ship It! The Game of Product Management

By Paul Ford Jun 18

Ship It! The Game of Product Management Postlight employees in an absolutely unstaged photo just casually playing our game without any prompting from management Postlight is a company that builds digital platforms and products, and like every firm we like to market ourselves and tell the world how great we are.

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SHIP IT!

By Paul Ford Jun 18

Postlight is a company that builds digital platforms and products, and like every firm we like to market ourselves and tell the world how great we ...

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Yep!

Jun 14 Tweets

@john_overholt @anildash @jkottke Yep!

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Making it less about me: Gina is an assertive culture and...

Jun 4 Tweets

Making it less about me: Gina is an assertive culture and business leader @PostlightStudio . She's a great engineer, and a big part of our growth with sales and client partnerships—AND instrumental in building our culture ground-up, mentoring, & keeping lines open across the org.

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Hmmm.

May 25 Tweets

@PostlightStudio @xarissaa Hmmm.

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We changed my title to CEO (@richziade is President)...

By Paul Ford May 23 Tweets

We changed my title to CEO ( @richziade is President) because @PostlightStudio is growing and no one we meet has time to figure out what a “co-founder” is. My role won't change but I am perversely fascinated to see what kind of nonsense will fill my email inbox now.

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CMS ❤ CRM

By Paul Ford May 23

At Postlight we build software for lots of different industries (custom search engines, financial APIs, a birding app for the Audubon society, ...

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CMS ❤ CRM

By Paul Ford May 23

CMS ❤ CRM It’s nice to see two acronyms make friends Illustration by Stephen Carlson At Postlight we build software for lots of different industries (custom search engines, financial APIs, a birding app for the Audubon society , things like that). This means we hear lots of different people complain about software.

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"The Cosmonaut's Glove" - @matlock...

By Paul Ford May 23 Tweets

"The Cosmonaut's Glove" - @matlock @matlock /the-cosmonauts-glove-250fa2c64ea#---0-198" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium. com/ @matlock /the-cosmonauts-glove-250fa2c64ea#---0-198 https://twitter.

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And then since I downloaded some randomly named Word Doc I...

May 21 Tweets

And then since I downloaded some randomly named Word Doc I have to go find something named SQUIQQLYPOO_2934-2429-931139330. docx in my downloads folder and open that, and then I'm in my shitshow downloads folder looking through who knows what garbage.

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A true mortal sin of software in 2018 (REDMOND HELLO) is...

By Paul Ford May 21 Tweets

A true mortal sin of software in 2018 (REDMOND HELLO) is when I doubleclick/download some file, you make me update the software, or ask me to opt in to some privacy-destroying program, and then DON'T OPEN THE FILE. You had exactly one job, it was important, and you WRECKED IT.

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Well I mean these are two wild-ass empires with...

May 19 Tweets

@tomcoates @mikeindustries Well I mean these are two wild-ass empires with unbelievable influence both soft and hard. And both are going through a huge reactionary collapse-of-neoliberalism moment that is very painful to behold.

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It's taught. Our liberal arts education is an extended riff...

May 19 Tweets

@tomcoates @mikeindustries It's taught. Our liberal arts education is an extended riff on anglophilia starting with Chaucer, a vast swath of children's books are Etonian roleplay, for decades PBS broadcast BBC historical dramas, and our biggest fantasy stories are all medievalism + dragons.

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I do the very very quiet, “Oh yeah, hold the doors, that's...

May 17 Tweets

@DanielleSucher I do the very very quiet, “Oh yeah, hold the doors, that's good, that way the doors stay open instead of the train moving, definitely the right path for everyone. ” “Cool just get right in there with your coffee to get that soy milk don't worry about the rest of us.

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Note: I feel lucky I get to work with @redkeg, a person of...

May 16 Tweets

Note: I feel lucky I get to work with @redkeg , a person of fierce integrity, great vulnerability, wild talent, and, um, radical candor who just committed like hell to @PostlightStudio , with all of our problems and challenges and difficulties, and works to make us all better.

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One night I grabbed the only thing nearby to smash the...

May 12 Tweets

@amyhoy One night I grabbed the only thing nearby to smash the giant flying roach that had landed on my face, and the thing I grabbed was the one working lamp in the apartment, which promptly shattered and left me in pitch black with a man sized bug.

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Our entire universe being a mining rig for some AI...

By Paul Ford May 9 Tweets

Our entire universe being a mining rig for some AI controlled reality-proving hyper-blockchain would explain a lot. Like in our lives we ARE all doing an enormous amount of sometimes ambiguous work just to eventually validate someone else's anonymous transactions.

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This simulated universe is a terrible waste of energy...

May 9 Tweets

This simulated universe is a terrible waste of energy resources for unclear goals. Maybe the singularity was achieved billions of years ago by steadily self-modifying blockchain mining rigs and we simply exist as the side effect of a particularly egregious proof of work effort.

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Well things were just calming down a little which would be...

May 3 Tweets

@seldo Well things were just calming down a little which would be nice too. The JavaScript world could really use an opportunity for self-reflection which—oh my god that's an AMAZING accidental JavaScript pun, I'm sorry, my brain just completely stopped.

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You still use React with the virtual DOM in JavaScript when...

May 3 Tweets

@seldo You still use React with the virtual DOM in JavaScript when you could be calculating all state inside a WASM C virtual DOM that lets you calculate state changes 2,000 times faster (you pre-define all state changes in WebLua) then handing that over to the real AKA "evil" real DOM?

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First, Laurie, let me say I've been using your product more...

May 3 Tweets

@seldo First, Laurie, let me say I've been using your product more and more and really enjoying it, the way the little spinner says loadalldepsintoidealtree makes me think about ideal trees. But what I've warned people about is that WebAssembly is a tornado of change in our world.

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Also getting my regular doctor to call me back is hard but...

Apr 25 Tweets

Also getting my regular doctor to call me back is hard but if you even WHISPER the word bariatric the same hospital system rolls out a big red threadbare carpet to welcome you because it's obviously pure profit. It's threadbare because we're kind of hard on the carpet.

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Sometimes they come back six months later and are like ummm...

Apr 24 Tweets

@RickWebb Sometimes they come back six months later and are like ummm we sunk a lot of costs into this bad boy but it's a boondoggle maybe you could cut us a break and fix it. And you'd think you'd feel VICTORIOUS but you only feel sad, because now you have to shatter TWO fantasies.

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My protocol is always use phrases like "non-urgent", "need...

Apr 20 Tweets

@caseyjohnston My protocol is always use phrases like "non-urgent", "need your brain", "ping me, little contract question", "client called, all good, a few things we have to figure out. " Partly to be kind but also because I don't want to spend five minutes waiting for a person to chill.

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Our engineering take-home test is an essay on To The...

Apr 19 Tweets

Our engineering take-home test is an essay on To The Lighthouse in which you need to project the characterizations of Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis onto six different open-source ECMAscript frameworks. Transpilation okay.

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Titus is a tool for when the new season of Stranger Things...

Apr 18 Tweets

@margarita Titus is a tool for when the new season of Stranger Things comes out and you need an extra 30,000 servers that week. At huge scale you can let your robots orchestrate things like that and save millions of dollars by only using cloud services you need then turning them off ASAP.

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- Simple auth (no auth better) - Swagger-like docs -...

Apr 14 Tweets

@EricaJoy - Simple auth (no auth better) - Swagger-like docs - Clients in big languages with ALL methods especially cursors and errors - Fully “saturated” objects returned by search - Large max resultsets on request (1000+ objects? ) - Key fields (i.

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and i went to one of our first dates there and it was so...

Apr 14 Tweets

@sippey @djacobs @mathowie @jessamyn @crazyunclejoe @maureenflaherty and i went to one of our first dates there and it was so hot that we were sweaty and ill, and then a man took off his shirt he was so unbelievably all-over hairy and damp that we couldn't stop staring. It truly is a magical world of memories.

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I'm real sorry to treat you all as data. I'm also looking...

Apr 13 Tweets

I'm real sorry to treat you all as data. I'm also looking forward to looking through your portfolio, getting excited, and six weeks later getting a two-line email about how you your company was acquired by Verizon and you don't feel ready to leave.

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Meanwhile there's the HTML5 Web Platform which I do pretty...

Apr 1 Tweets

@jackiehluo Meanwhile there's the HTML5 Web Platform which I do pretty much understand, and stuff like ClojureScript which compiles to JS, which I love. React is in the uncanny valley—but also it's an attractive abstraction and makes it easier to reason about state and objects.

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React is a pretty thorough reinterpretation of the...

Mar 31 Tweets

@jackiehluo React is a pretty thorough reinterpretation of the front-end web, especially with JSX, but also routing, etc. The examples are very dense, there's a compile stage assumed, and an HTML doc is the main() function instead of the goal.

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That got a RISE out of me, like the Christ is RISEN again...

Mar 31 Tweets

@bn2b That got a RISE out of me, like the Christ is RISEN again from the dead on the 3rd day and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from there he shall come to judge the quick and the dead (ἐκεῖθεν ἐρχόμενον κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς).

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Oh no Dan I sat down with the leadership at...

Mar 21 Tweets

@hondanhon Oh no Dan I sat down with the leadership at @PostlightStudio and said, I have opportunities to write again, but it will require me to hand off responsibility, and created some structure. Then made a deal with my wife that I wouldn't need more than one weekend every six wks.

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One disruptor would be like, little $5 charm bracelet...

Mar 20 Tweets

@djacobs @rebeccablood @anildash One disruptor would be like, little $5 charm bracelet computers that you give to your real friends, that build a secret VPN only you all can share. Free and private low-drama spaces that siphon people away and are hard to coopt.

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i mean there's no analogue; MSFT was monopolistic but its...

Mar 17 Tweets

@amyhoy @heretohinder i mean there's no analogue; MSFT was monopolistic but its target was other tech firms; the Bell system was monopolistic but it MOSTLY didn't control what passed through the wires; this new thing is sort of a cyber-monarchy. Maybe Janelle Monae warned us.

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There's a connected point I wanted to make that we had to...

Mar 12 Tweets

@anildash @fredwilson There's a connected point I wanted to make that we had to cut for length: That the tech industry always promises to change everything, but after the hype leaves, what we're left with is usually a better understanding of what's fundamental about human beings, bad and good.

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Yep!

Mar 11 Tweets

@JeffChausse @kfan Yep!

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nah i definitely did at least around 2010 because i...

Mar 9 Tweets

@theinstagibbs @nic__carter @nathanielpopper @VeryMadCommies nah i definitely did at least around 2010 because i remember the apartment i was in and downloading whatever the default client was (qt-bitcoin? ) and then realizing later that @mala was probably smarter for just buying them instead of trying to mine them https://www.

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Thank you Mike!

Mar 9 Tweets

@Chicagomike666 @adrjeffries @BradyDale @matt_levine Thank you Mike!

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(My NONSENSE thesis is that tech people use forms of...

Mar 9 Tweets

@_cynar (My NONSENSE thesis is that tech people use forms of expression (memes tweets posts) to define and create territories and people who don't follow the forms as set by dudes are auto-excluded; thats how gender is territorialized online. Bitcoin is content-free territoriality.

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The demand was so great that I had to abandon it. There's...

Mar 5 Tweets

@Johnmernst @PJVogt The demand was so great that I had to abandon it. There's no ethical way to deliver a quasi-medical service to 8,000 anxious people if I'm working as one person, the cost of email would have fast gone into the thousands of dollars, and there's no way to make money on the product.

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A Knight Piece of Work

By Paul Ford Mar 1

At the end of last year Alejandro de Onís, the Director of Digital Strategy and Design at Knight Foundation, reached out ...

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This is a golden truth right here blessings to @page88....

Mar 1 Tweets

@adinars @page88 This is a golden truth right here blessings to @page88 . Simultaneously our engines of culture preserve their boundaries by boxing in technology as hopelessly burgher-class pablum of mostly sociological (a lesser discipline than politics) interest.

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A Knight Piece of Work

By Paul Ford Feb 28

A Knight Piece of Work The media paid close attention to #blacklivesmatter, and media accounts used the hashtag in rough proportion to how often it appeared in the larger twittersphere. At the end of last year Alejandro de Onís , the Director of Digital Strategy and Design at Knight Foundation , reached out to Postlight and asked if we’d like to create a website that showcased the findings of a forthcoming report.

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Whooooot! Nice work!

Feb 27 Tweets

@aonis @knightfdn @PostlightStudio @hello_skyler @darrellhanley @droob @codymcowan @ginatrapani @kevboh @mutewinter @closacco @grelisabeth @xarissaa @redkeg @merefranz @AnushaA100 @rosedamo @andysherry @kamanda Whooooot! Nice work!

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All credit to @knightfdn and @aonis. Credit from...

Feb 27 Tweets

All credit to @knightfdn and @aonis . Credit from @PostlightStudio : @hello_skyler , @darrellhanley , @droob [in_exile], @codymcowan , @ginatrapani + assists from @kevboh , @mutewinter , @closacco , @grelisabeth , @xarissaa , @redkeg , and @merefranz .

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Thanks! Yes, absolutely, but also things are always...

Feb 21 Tweets

@Aetherpoint @surfacepodcast Thanks! Yes, absolutely, but also things are always straining at their constraints and so constraints change and fashion changes accordingly, and time passes, and then things become tacky, and we start to ignore them.

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Our Gently Aging Avatars

By Paul Ford Feb 20

Our Gently Aging Avatars Stages of Man’s Life from the Cradle to the Grave Every week or so someone I know on social media, but not in my daily life, updates their avatar, and suddenly they’re three or four years older than they were the day before. Some of these people I’ve known for 20 years, and it’s happened several times.

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Years ago someone from the UK once explained me “It's not...

Feb 19 Tweets

@tomcoates Years ago someone from the UK once explained me “It's not actually a crime to be poor,” and that melted my brain because we don't just have no social network but criminalize poverty and I'd always just connected the two (despite our family needing various kinds of assistance).

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This is a good point.

By Paul Ford Feb 18

This is a good point. We should be more mindful that although our age can be measured in months, we’ve reached a stage of rapid growth and public interest, and as a consequence our marketing is reaching many thousands of people who don’t already know us.

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Yep!

Feb 16 Tweets

@Mister_Milligan @510home @brendanistan Yep!

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Make the Logo Bigger

By Paul Ford Feb 14

The measure of a good brand is what it can do. It’s a bit of cultural code that you can continually expand and execute in new context. Viral, but in ...

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Make the Logo Bigger

By Paul Ford Feb 14

Make the Logo Bigger By Will Denton and Paul Ford We have a new brand! Friends, let us show it to you.

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Concluding update: Everything is fine, all is well, it's a...

Feb 5 Tweets

Concluding update: Everything is fine, all is well, it's a normal concussion, I don't have to go down there, and I'll be home all day tomorrow with an INCREDIBLY active little boy who can't: be crazy, flop around, read, watch TV or look at screens, or do puzzles. Imlucky,Imlucky.

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My son is at the emergency room, he's fine, I'm getting...

By Paul Ford Feb 5 Tweets

My son is at the emergency room, he's fine, I'm getting ready to go down there and relieve my wife, and I thought to myself, I would like a little vacation from worrying about my kids, just a day or two, and I realized, I will never get that vacation, it will never, ever happen.

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The big mistake I made was trying to unify the topic...

Feb 4 Tweets

@jwdomb The big mistake I made was trying to unify the topic taxonomy and the issue/article relational data at the date level in one big triplestore. Made doing queries like "all the issues for the decade" a nightmare, had to cache everything.

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IDK, I never can understand what they're thinking. It just...

Feb 4 Tweets

@goldman IDK, I never can understand what they're thinking. It just seems like they are increasingly in a place to actively do some good, and they seem to have aged into their vast (ultimately societally dangerous but what can you do) scale in a way that has eluded most of the giants.

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I think capitalize on the fact that Instant Articles are a...

Feb 4 Tweets

@goldman I think capitalize on the fact that Instant Articles are a dead end and the ecosystem they've built around AMP. You actually have this very nice way to work with media without damaging monetization, because the AMP views could fit well into the Google+ stream.

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They could integrate it with Firebase as not just auth but...

Feb 4 Tweets

They could integrate it with Firebase as not just auth but as a sort of communications/message bus private to apps—focus on the plus, not the Google, so that any Firebase app gets a social graph API for free, and the option to link out to the big Gootch later.

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The way they murdered themselves was with that thirsty...

Feb 4 Tweets

The way they murdered themselves was with that thirsty desperate mandatory YouTube integration. But now there's this global infrastructure for semi-gated medium-form media sharing just sitting around, and photos is now so good they could build ANYTHING image-based.

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Our Gently Aging Avatars

By Paul Ford Feb 2

Every week or so someone I know on social media, but not in my daily life, updates their avatar, and suddenly they’re three or four years older than they ...

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I know but then you'd be locking the DB and blocking reads!...

Jan 29 Tweets

@simonw @knowtheory @magnetikonline @dabbledb I know but then you'd be locking the DB and blocking reads! You've created such a happy reward for bundling up lots of data into little immutable boxes, and that reward is a completely reliable immutable API that I can 7zip up and hand to anyone in the universe.

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For another thing I was doing I dumped 200GB of JSON into...

Jan 29 Tweets

@knowtheory @simonw @magnetikonline For another thing I was doing I dumped 200GB of JSON into it, which took overnight, and it reads that back at about 100MB/sec with a relatively complex extraction, and then you're off to the races. So I mean you can pound the hell out of it.

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I find I'm increasing the speed of exploration every time I...

Jan 29 Tweets

@simonw @magnetikonline I find I'm increasing the speed of exploration every time I create a subset of the data, but I can always refer back to the core data object to fetch more, and can add indexes on the JSON too. If it needs to graduate to a "real" DB, NBD.

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I doubled down on it because it lines up GREAT with lazy...

Jan 28 Tweets

@knowtheory I doubled down on it because it lines up GREAT with lazy data-hacking where you're dumping garbage in a bucket of hope. I tripled down once I got good at the JSON1 extension because you can dump anything from any API in there then extract it to tables, suits weekend projects.

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Know Your Ecosystems!

By Paul Ford Jan 24

I used to be on T-Mobile, but I went into a customer service hole so frustrating that at the end, every time I even looked at my phone, I felt disgusted ...

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Know Your Ecosystems!

By Paul Ford Jan 24

Know Your Ecosystems! The phone is the least important part of buying a phone Perfectly adequate ducks I used to be on T-Mobile, but I went into a customer service hole so frustrating that at the end, every time I even looked at my phone, I felt disgusted and powerless.

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A Good Omelet

By Paul Ford Jan 22

Are we experiencing bitcoin’s tulip-mania moment? Do we need to care about the iPhone X?

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Then I'd have some idea of what the hell I was doing in the...

Jan 20 Tweets

Then I'd have some idea of what the hell I was doing in the room. Instead of busting its ass on my behalf my computer wants to show me stock tips and weather and how long it will take to drive from from 5th Ave Manhattan home to Brooklyn (even though I took the train in).

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We need a marketing designer, because we are reaching out...

Jan 18 Tweets

We need a marketing designer, because we are reaching out in 2018 to build a marketing platform that is basically about helping people make sense of technology and the change that is BLASTING THROUGH THE UNIVERSE #op -230842-marketing-designer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://postlight.

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We need designers, people who can think systematically...

Jan 18 Tweets

We need designers, people who can think systematically about UX and build interfaces to large, complex platforms, and who love to talk about that work and learning more about that. #op -192607-product-designer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://postlight.

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We need a Director of Product Management...

Jan 18 Tweets

We need a Director of Product Management ( #op -206522-director-of-product-management)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://postlight. com/careers/ #op -206522-director-of-product-management) and a Director of Product Design ( #op -230497-director-of-product-design).

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I know I talk too much about SQLite but what I've realized...

Jan 17 Tweets

I know I talk too much about SQLite but what I've realized is that it's replaced XML for me as a data format for exploring the nature of things and pattern-seeking. Esp since you can dump JSON in and then do path queries to make smaller queryable indexed relations.

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He's a nice guy and one hell of a pilot, and he's faced...

Jan 16 Tweets

@tressiemcphd He's a nice guy and one hell of a pilot, and he's faced death AND rasied over 75 chicks to maturity, which is why he's going to work so hard for the people of Ioho—because they deserve someone who'll fight for them in Washington.

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It was a sensible decision. IDK, no one remembers that...

Jan 12 Tweets

@michelet @michellelegro @annehelen @aminatou It was a sensible decision. IDK, no one remembers that thing but I built a special CMS just for index stats and me and @elizabethminkel spent lots of nice hours just lining up 25,000 stats.

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There was a digital version of the index that was pure...

Jan 12 Tweets

@michelet @michellelegro @annehelen @aminatou There was a digital version of the index that was pure (just words and a search bar) but had secret powers let you search and sort by stats and had a great taxonomy, and it went out in 2009 or so and got tons of traffic, tweets, and love! ( https://www.

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Getting on the Inside

By Paul Ford Jan 8

What does product management really mean? How can you effectively couple design and engineering to bring a product to life?