Brian Donohue

For the past few years, I’ve been writing exclusively in markdown across a few different use cases: Personal Blog 1 Instapaper Blog Instapaper Docs Work & personal notes I mostly use Obsidian for writing and managing markdown files.

I spent the past week doing Instapaper support, which I do myself from time to time to get a sense of the top issues facing Instapaper customers and our support team.

After 18 years, the Instapaper blog is moving off of Tumblr in favor of Jekyll on GitHub Pages.

For the past two months, I’ve been using Cora, a website that connects to your Gmail and handles all of your email for you.

One of my goals this year is to teach myself Machine Learning.

I’ve been observing a growing shift toward a more Closed Web.

Matt Ranney, a Principal Engineer at DoorDash, recently gave an interview called Microservices are Technical Debt.

Today Instapaper launched Summaries, which is a feature I’ve wanted to build for a long time.

After almost 8 years in big tech engineering leadership1, I’m taking the leap to go full-time on Instapaper (again!)

Ten years ago, in the summer of 2013, my startup failed.

In 2020, our organization at Pinterest led the company in hiring from underrepresented backgrounds.