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This isn’t solvable by hiring additional engineers. More people would just make communication between and within teams increasingly burdensome. This is a problem of not saying “no” enough. And at some point, saying “no” more often than “yes” becomes unacceptable to investors. Once you cross that line, insert the Upton Sinclair quote about people not understanding things their salary depends on them not understanding.
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US12376722B2: Robotic cleaner
patents.google.comI built some R&D prototypes with ARKit and robot vacuum cleaners in 2022 when I worked at SharkNinja. I just learned that one of them was granted a patent last month.
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That thing where you try and drag a window out of the way only to realize it’s inside someone else’s screen they’re sharing.
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“No Jacket Required”
superdeluxeedition.comJust putting out into the universe that there’s a new mix / reissue of “No Jacket Required” available today.
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“Who Is the Sky?”
allmusic.comHappy David Byrne album release day to all who celebrate!
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Some Books
An internet friend asked the other day: It appears I have finally rebooted my reading hobby, after years of trying. Feels good. What’s something great you’ve read? Here’s some of my favorites (in no particular order).
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Migrating Day One Journal Entries to Obsidian
I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format. When I first started using Day One, I wrote about it on this blog and said one of the requirements needed to be […]
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All Your Brand Are Belong To Us
The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013, laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their own brand and corporate design on top of. It was such a clean slate that, twelve years later, most major apps look similar — if not identical — between […]
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minifeed
I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I almost always find something surprising, delightful, weird, or just plain fun to read. Even better, I come away with a new blogger to follow.
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Advice
My son turned eleven last month. He reads all the time (fantasy books are his favorite) and has started planning and building his own worlds to write stories about. He made a to-do list in his writing notebook, and I asked him if I could share it here. It's good advice.