The Four Jedi (software architects) You Meet in Heaven
*with apologies to Mitch Albom, of course. We recently got Disney+, and I finished watching The Mandalorian, and then, casting about for what else there...
Making Money isn’t Enough: Considerations for a digital company in 2017
I’m starting a new company, with Steve Fisher. I can’t reveal just yet the first product we’re building, but don’t worry, there’ll be more on that in the...
Stray thoughts about this week’s Computer Announcements
On Wednesday, Microsoft the Surface Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMLA8YIgG0 Immediately followed by Apple announcing the Macbook Pro (2016)...
Software is eating the world like...
This adage is well-know. Based on a Google search, it would appear that Marc Andreessen has made several comments on this topic since 2011, and is has...
Thinking about Twitter
Thinking about Twitter I like Twitter a lot. I’ve been using it nearly a decade now. It’s an indispensable part of my professional and personal social...
Design & Content Conference: A sort-of review
So let’s get this out of the way up front: I have a lot of bias regarding the Design & Content Conference: - My company was a sponsor of the...
Just-in-time disk
Just-in-time Disks, wherein I complain, yet again, about the state of cloud storage services, cross-device sync and ownership of generated content.
Identity: Solve this
The computer I use to edit my photos & videos is the home iMac. It's where my Drobo is, it's where I've installed Lightroom, it's where we keep our...
Fixing "View All"
Lots of websites paginate their stories - we all know the so-called justifications for why - so I won't expand on that argument. However, many also...
File structure
I have always been super-anal about...