Tim Cook, Facebook, and GDPR Oct 22, 2018

Tim Cook said this past week at a privacy conference that he, and Apple, are “in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States.” I’d like to take a look at one point in his argument.

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Google envy Oct 01, 2018

I ran across a good one this week: Hire people who aren’t proven.

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Mastodon: an update Sep 24, 2018

I just haven’t used it.

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Projects I'm working on right now Sep 16, 2018

I’ve got a few irons in the fire right now and I’d like to talk through them.

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Why not Twitter? Sep 03, 2018

I got a question this week - why didn’t I get into Twitter? Or more accurately, why didn’t it stick?

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Fail Fast Aug 26, 2018

One of the more generally applicable ideas that comes from programming is “fail fast”.

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Mastodon: distributed, decentralized social networking Aug 20, 2018

I wrote a couple posts about Matrix a while back. On the topic of distributed services, I’d like to talk about Mastodon.

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Gridlock is essential Aug 11, 2018

I firmly believe that gridlock is the essential feature of the American political system.

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HipChat and the advantages of open source Aug 05, 2018

Atlassian has discontinued their on-premises chat system in favor of Slack.

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Kanban Mail Jul 23, 2018

Kanban is an agile methodology uniquely suited to the way I do email.

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