August 2022

Archive

The Many Faces of Puzzles

Much of my daily brain power is dedicated to logic puzzles. Coding is effectively a logic puzzle and I do an awful lot of that. Many other aspects of a business are solving puzzles. Determining strategy. Trying to be effective at marketing. Measuring and charting progress. Running a business is just playing a game with […]

Dead Wax

Fascinating that the CEO and co-founder of Patreon, Jack Conte, has a YouTube Channel (cheezy clickbait thumbnails and all) where he hangs out with his buddies, invites on super good musicians to talk about their work, and shoots the breeze about good music old and new. Well, I guess I can relate.

Police Radar on Google Maps Driving Directions

I just noticed for this first time while driving along a highway that Google Maps shows “Speed Traps”. Apparently user-reported (where? maybe in Waze?) data where police are using radar speed guns to measure your driving speed, and pull you over and ticket you if you’re speeding. I don’t hate it, it just seems a […]

Sweet Spot for RSS?

Ben Ubois was on The Changlelog the other day. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, my preferred RSS service. I say “service” and not “reader” because while I sometimes use Feedbin itself as a reader (it’s good), I also bounce around to other readers for fun. The API they offer enables this, which is a […]