I was living in Dallas when Katrina hit. I was infuriated that so many people were left stranded in such a desperate situation, and baffled by the seeming total lack of urgency to help them. I still remember vividly welling up with tears of anger and sadness while driving down I-35, at a first-hand report… Continue reading

To me, it feels like there’s some kind of inflection point being reached, but I base this on not much more than my own subjective, albeit at least somewhat informed experience. The obviously important recent SCOTUS decisions are out there of course, but we have multiple justices over age 80, going into a presidential election… Continue reading

Simon Wardley: Evolution, diffusion, hype cycle and early failures: “I looked at many techniques to measure change and found all of them wanting. I spent years finding out that lots of things weren’t useful for describing evolution. This is why I spent so long in the British Library cataloguing many thousands of publications. There was… Continue reading

A couple of weeks ago, I started running River4 on my Synology DS412+ NAS device. At the moment I’m generating just one river, which you can see on river.jakesavin.com. Since I needed River4 to run all the time, and I didn’t want to have to kick it off by hand every time the NAS boots up, I… Continue reading

I love this: Another take on Minimal Viable Products:pic.twitter.com/pMPYYcUgHS — Jared Spool (@jmspool) November 2, 2014 Just because you’re building a new product with limited resources, doesn’t mean you can ignore design, usability, or reliability. (Thanks to Santiago Valdarrama for the retweet.) Continue reading

Updated: Apparently I’m living in the past, and hadn’t yet educated myself on the implications of the Affordable Care Act. While I knew that the ACA protected people from being denied coverage based on pre-existing conditions, I didn’t know that this was universal across all providers (not just the ones available on HealthCare.gov), and that it also prevents… Continue reading

I’ve been working with multiple displays since at least 2004. Back in those days I had a 17″ PowerBook G4 with a PCM/CIA card that provided a second external DVI output. It was slow, but it worked, and for the programming I was doing the lacking performance was not an issue. For the last few… Continue reading

We took the verticals that FounderDating Network Cofounder members (those members who have indicated that they are interested in finding cofounders) selected as markets they are interested in started a company in and compared the last six months with the same six months one year ago… – via Founder Dating It comes as little surprise to me that the… Continue reading

I have a plan for something I want to do with my site, and could use some advice from experienced WordPress people. I have two legacy sites that I want to merge into my current WordPress site. Content in this site already consists of the imported content from one of these sites, plus posts I’ve… Continue reading