game, game. repeat.

Its generally thought that the ability to delay your own gratification is correlated with greater success.

Following updates from Genode and Haiku highlighting their progress towards becoming broadly useful operating systems, I installed them on some real hardware, took them for a spin, and thought about what it would take for them to take over the world…what…

When someone says ‘we are laying a foundation for X’ I take it as code for wasting resources and the sort of lazy thinking that goes with it…at least if they are talking about going dark to make some software, whether its about the code, infrastructure, t…

My ideal product manager is more interested in disproving their idea than proving it.

A couple months ago my wife got locked out of Steam while trying to remember her password and we had to give up on a rare chance to play some Don’t Starve Together, um, together.

Idris is sort of ‘Haskell 2.0’, where the authors got to apply the lessons learned from the creation and evolution of Haskell, but leave behind all the baggage embedded in existing, in use libraries, since, you know, they don’t have any of those yet.

I’ve heard tell that the WWAN module lodged inside my laptop can give me my coordinates on planet Earth.

Look.

I flashed a Lenovo x200 with Coreboot with Intel microcode enabled, ME removed, and the gigabit ethernet firmware from Libreboot.

Democracy and government secrets are at odds with each other.

Amazon used to have outstanding customer support.

It seems the bigots have come out of the woodwork recently, emboldened by Trump’s election.

I don’t have a healthy relationship with consumer products.

Up until a few years ago, my software choices were largely accidents of circumstance and convenience.

We (the human race) spend/waste an enormous amount of energy writing code that won’t last.

Ruby feels like working with Legos: its easy to pickup, delightful from the start, and you can make amazing things with it quickly.

Companies and teams tend towards mediocrity over time.

The quality of the people and the culture of a company define its trajectory.

TL;DR scaling a dev team + code base has more to do with minimizing stupidity than with maximizing brilliance.

FOSS just gets better and better, feature-wise and ethics-wise…and it seems Proprietary keeps getting better feature-wise, but worse ethics-wise.

The scale goes from low to high morale.

Privacy Matters The freedom to speak in private is essential to democracy.

When I joined Mixbook 4 years ago, we were running very large, coarse experiments, where we’d spend 3-6 months with 2-4 people building some new feature until we thought it was done, then we’d ship.

I run OpenBSD on my main laptop.

Level 1 No process or rules to get in the way!

If you’re in the market for a tool that syncs your email over IMAP, I recommend you check out mbsync.

I was poking around some old Haskell code the other day, when I realized that, since switching to Vim (from Atom) I hadn’t setup the necessary plugins in Vim to get syntax checking and such for Haskell.

Scrum Master is a greatly misunderstood and under appreciated role.

At least one person says you should be thinking you’ll need a miracle to pull off your OKRs or they aren’t hard enough.

First, if you haven’t read Stables and Volatiles, go read it and then come back.

By 2020 OpenBSD will be in the top 25 on Distrowatch, because of an increased interest in security.

I’ve been interviewing a lot of people in the past few weeks and I’ve been wondering how they, you know, get 4 hours off in the middle of the work day to interview.

The more I learn about network security, the more trying to secure a Linux server feels like trying to make my house seaworthy–I’d be better off buying something that was built for seaworthiness from the start, like a boat.

When one is trying to increase productivity, there are 3 areas of particular interest: hours worked tasks completed per hour worked unit of impact per task completed Hours Worked The company culture where you work sets the tone for how many hours you work.

These days it seems that a lot of SaaS tools are offering a free tier, one or more paid tiers, and an ’enterprise’ tier, which, unlike the other tiers, has amazing new capabilities but no price.

I’ve got another deck to put together.

When I’m in the middle of a hard thought problem (i.e. coding) and I interrupt my work on the thought problem to do something else, I find it difficult to concentrate on the something else.

We email our customers after they receive their first Mosaic, asking them to submit a review to the iTunes (or Google Play) store.

Recently I was asked how I figure out whether the resume I’m looking at belongs to an ‘A’ player or someone of a lesser grade.

The main stumbling block I had to overcome to get various flavors of Linux to install as a guest OS on a Qemu instance, running on an OpenBSD source, was to disable APIC, not be confused with ACPI.

I moved my wishlist from Amazon to CamelCamelCamel.

Sometimes you want ‘open .’ to open a directory in your favorite GUI file manager, not EasyTag.

I’ve been pondering Hilary Clinton’s dead brokeness, what she meant, and what it means to be rich.

A few weeks ago we moved Mixbook.com ($25M/year) off our old, bare-metal ISP and onto AWS.

Montage is now live and its 10x easier1 to make a great photo book with Montage than any other way ever2.

I organized my first hack night recently.

We just launched the Android version of Mosaic.

I’m excited to pull the curtain back a bit on Montage.

I posted this on my personal Facebook account yesterday morning: I want to see what life is like without a (personal) Facebook account for a while.

I am a hipster.