Spotify’s new homescreen design goes hard on full-screen images and video. Image: Spotify Spotify is redesigning the core homescreen of its app, trying to make it easier for users to find new stuff to
Juice Planted: Mar 2023 Tended: Mar 2024 Status: sprout Tended: Mar 2024 Intended Audience: Software designers, Product managers, Creative coders Juice is the non-essential visual, audio and haptic ef
Just as every pregnancy, labor, and delivery is unique, so is every postpartum recovery experience. Postpartum women share many of the same postpartum experiences, though, and they have similar questi
Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Phony Stark did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something ever
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images The “work from home” revolution has been very good for political columnists who like to write shirtless in pajama pants and share too much personal information with t
Guest Essay The Deadly Lack of Imagination in the Democratic Party Dec. 19, 2022 Credit...Cristina Spanò By Mr. Frank is the author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” and, most recently, “The People,
Dec. 7, 2022 4:07 pm ET Tensions had been growing between Salesforce Inc.’s co-Chief Executives Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor over their responsibilities and how the business was run for months before
Thoma Bravo LLC raised $32.4 billion for three new tech-focused funds in one of the biggest hauls by a private-equity firm this year even as some rivals struggle to close out funding rounds. The Chica
When St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, a brown-brick nursing home in Richmond, Virginia, was put up for sale, in October, 2019, the waiting list for a room was three years long. “People were literally d
September 2022 I recently told applicants to Y Combinator that the best advice I could give for getting in, per word, was Explain what you've learned from users. That tests a lot of things: whether yo
My first job was as a paper boy: The job was remarkably analog: a bundle of newspapers would be dropped off at my house, I would wrap them in rubber-bands (or plastic bags if it were raining), load th
This is a story about oceans, hurricanes, fear and the time I almost killed a friend. In 1998, I had been working every job and grabbing every moment I could find on big sailboats. That fall, a skippe
Tony Sirico, an Eccentric Gangster on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 79 A familiar face in Woody Allen movies, he became widely known for his portrayal of Paulie Walnuts on the hit HBO series. Tony Sirico as
MessagesBrian Donohue@bthdonohueThreadSee new TweetsConversationparker.exe@ptAs a data point, the AngelList Access Fund did ~190 individual company investments last quarter down from ~240 in Q1 (our ATH). I think that’s probably fairly reflective of market deal pace.Quote TweetShai Goldman@shaig·…
Introduction Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people
BooksBookshelf The engineer who played a key role in the iPod, iPhone and other game-changing devices lays out the messy blueprint for tech success. By Steven Sinofsky June 17, 2022 3:57 pm ET An Appl
The last six months have been a challenging time for tech and tech startups. Macro events have weighed on the sector, valuations have come crashing down, revenue growth has slowed (or stopped), and la
Press enter or click to view image in full size From the beginning, we designed OpenAirplane to be failsafe. This timing will give us time to process payments, and provide for the orderly shutdown of the platform. We’ve always done our best to ensure vendors got paid before we did. We built that…
The goal of the 2009 Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project seemed simple. A carpool lane was to be added to reduce congestion on a 10-mile stretch of Los Angeles’s I-405 freeway, the second most co
TL;DR This is me ranting about crappy tech interview experiences You’re wasting my time; I am wasting yours This is my career rant for the summer of 2022. I’ve been on a run of unsatisfying (and unsuc
I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic. I’m talking about two clips in particu
Monday February 21, 2022 — Taipei, Taiwan I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms . It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to b
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers. We Hired the CFO Last week as a favor to a friend, I sat in on a board meeti
Thefts, Fraud and Lawsuits at the World’s Biggest NFT Marketplace OpenSea, one of the highest-profile crypto start-ups, is facing a backlash over stolen and plagiarized nonfungible tokens. Chris Chapm
transcript 0:00/35:22 -35:22 transcript The C.E.O. of Condé Nast: ‘This Is No Longer a Magazine Company’ Roger Lynch talks unionization, Bon Appétit and Anna Wintour. 2022-05-23T05:00:06-04:00 [MUSIC]
It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives. A weeklong trip in Alaska was supposed to be an adventure. In an instant, it became the experience that defined us all. The wilderness in South
Michael Jordan once said, “Larry Bird is the greatest trash talker and mind-game player of all time. He taught me everything I know about getting in folks’ heads.” That was reason enough to call 17 of
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little
If you can believe it, Tumblr turned 15 this month. The microblogging site that launched a thousand ships was created by software consultant David Karp in 2007. During a time when longer-form blogging
Credit... Ariel Davis Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary Investors give money to pseudonymous developers. Venture capitalists back founders without learning their real names. What
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage t
The Markets Tremble as the Fed’s Lifeline Fades Stocks are off to their worst start of a year since 2016 as the central bank pulls back the enormous stimulus programs it began in the early months of t
What are social tokens? Social tokens are tokens issued by individual creators or communities that enable community members to collaborate and share ownership in the value created together. Social tok
November 9, 2021 This article has been translated into Russian by the 21ideas/21идея project. Proof of stake is a scam. When I say that, I mean that proof of stake is (1) claimed to be a consensus sys
It is easy to feel trapped by your ‘Zone of Competence’: things you are good at doing, but do not love. I spent 15 years doing that. To truly find meaning in your work, focus on your ‘Zone of Genius’
It’s inevitable that your team will need things from other teams. This is especially common in product engineering. You can use the “Independent Executor Model” to avoid making this a problem. What pain do dependencies cause? It’s very common to get into a situation where you need something from…
My Software Estimation Technique Last time, I explained that, although estimating software project timelines is hard, you should do it anyway. With that background, I want to go into some detail and share the technique I use when I need to develop a project timeline. The critical characteristic:…
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