NPM's "Guys" jar. npm / Tumblr The tech startup npm recently blogged about the unusual challenge some of its employees have agreed to participate in: they put a dollar in a glass jar every time they s

As you know, I’ve been working for myself from home for [over four years](https://shawnblanc.net/2015/04/four-years/). And even still, I’m terrible at estimating how much time I need to spend on a par

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TL;DR – This gist on GitHub . At Bloglovin , we use an automated build numbering setup in Xcode that sets the build number to the current number of git commits in the active git branch. It has worked mostly well, though our technique has not been without frustrations. The Frustrating Old Way The…

“Declarative” and “imperative” are often used as substitutes for “object-oriented” and “functional”. Conflating “declarative” and “functional” creates confusion and hurts programmers. Without picking

Swift Framework creation This is my preferred way to set up a Swift framework project. Sometimes, you will find yourself using the same custom code in multiple projects. Simply copying the files into

Today we will be starting a new series. We want show you insights into startup & designer lives by giving great interviews with different people like entrepreneurs, designers and investors. And we wil

Programmers dream of new code. We spend a good deal of our time working on code we didn’t write for software we didn’t create, much of which we believe is horribly written (or, at least, could be done

I recently realized that if I’m too busy to take something on, I shouldn’t say “I don’t have the time”. In fact, I often do have the time. It’s not that hard to squeeze in some extra time for someone.

When Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett launched Relay FM , they expected to build a small independent network of weekly tech podcasts. Just a year later, Relay FM features 16 different shows and deliver

Warning: This one’s not about programming, but it is programming adjacent. Meditations on Moloch , which I’ve linked to before, is a great article. Alexander finds a few texts and weaves them together

As you may have heard ( or read ), I am leaving Bloomberg. I’d like to try and explain why. I never wrote a goodbye letter when I left Vox and The Verge. So maybe this can kill two big birds with one

Escorts make $100 a hand job — but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. Welcome to the new economy of the oldest profession. By Svetlana Z Photographs of Svetlana by Pascal Perich

WebKit is an open source Web content engine for browsers and other applications. We value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, battery life, security, privacy, p

(Photo: Photograph by Franck Bohbot. Institute for New York Magazine. Special thanks to Ziegfeld Theater/Bow Tie Cinemas) In this crowded city of 8.4 million—in fact, the most crowded New York has eve

Fiction Dear son, If you’re reading this, I’m dead. I’m sorry. Published in Human Parts · 9 min read · Jul 29, 2015 -- Illustration: Jane Corwell/Flickr D eath is always a surprise. No one expects it.

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And why simple manners can transform your relationships 9 min read · Aug 13, 2014 -- The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big

Brent Simmons recently published a piece on the advent of building indie iOS apps for love : The platform is awesome. We love writing iOS apps. It’s fun and massively rewarding in every way except mon

By the late 1980s, the quality of consumer baseball caps was dick. Most of the caps that were easily available for purchase were more the variety of headgear you’d expect to find at a truck stop locat

Posted on July 2, 2015 As tends to happen in regular cycles in our community, there has recently been another bout of handwringing over the difficulty of making it as an indie. Brent Simmons kicked th

9 min read · Jan 12, 2015 -- On process – How the framing of software creation affects the outcome. How to think about the software development process. On design – The importance of respecting the de

Modern Love To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This Credit... Brian Rea More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer,

Written by an actual teen Published in Backchannel · 14 min read · Jan 3, 2015 -- I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience,

What is your morning routine? I’ve always been a morning person, having grown up in a family of early risers . These days, I wake naturally at around 6:00am. We have big trees outside our bedroom wind

Messaging isn’t about text. It’s about conversations. Here’s why the simplest apps on your phone are quickly becoming the most powerful. There’s arguably more innovation happening in messaging today t

Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. Now that software lives in o

We get a lot of inquiries each week about app development or consulting. Most of our clients are existing businesses who need an mobile app or site for strategic reasons. Sometimes though, we get folk

Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do

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