In a post entitled Please Don’t Learn How to Code, software developer Jeff Atwood argues that the “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten out of control, and th... Read more
Why aren't there more women in technology? Hmm, let's see if Twitter can help us find out. Read more
Most people have no idea what the market rate or prevailing wage is for their profession and career level, much less where they fall on the pay scale.I’m tired of fluffy unvetted career ad... Read more
“Want to bro down and crush code?” No. Read more
The Shit Girls Say meme blew up because all of us vaguely recognize the college-age woman who says those things. The meme is also highly annoying because it implies “girls” are a... Read more
As you educate yourself about your own talent and ambitions, you graduate from doing a task right to doing the right task. It takes some experience to realize that a lot of work is better le... Read more
A must-watch for anyone afraid to start something new, “stuck in a terrible place between 0 and 1.” I especially love the very last two lines as they relate to getting things don... Read more
On modern social networks, the question of the moment is What are you doing? (or perhaps more provocatively, What’s on your mind?). To me, a more interesting question is What do you wa... Read more
I’ve got some exciting news on the ThinkUp front. Our team is rebooting the project’s non-profit funding organization Expert Labs into a commercial entity. Anil and I are co-foun... Read more
A couple of weeks ago on an episode of TWiG, I argued that code is one of the best kinds of activism. Time to put my money where my mouth is. My new project, Narrow the Gapp, is a single-ser... Read more
Two years ago this week, ThinkUp was born. Our first year we moved from alpha into beta, and our second year we graduated out of beta to great response. Today I’m thrilled to report th... Read more
If you pay for web hosting in order to run any kind of web-based application—from your WordPress blog to a nameplate site to a file-sharing service to a social media data archive... Read more
Had the chance to chat at length with my TWiT cohorts Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt on their interview show Triangulation this week. We covered a whole lot of territory, from poetry to code to... Read more
Just pushed a new version 0.8 of Todo.txt Touch for Android, which offers a brand spanking new homescreen widget, tappable contact info, better search results, and more. Download it to your... Read more
One of the most-requested features for Todo.txt Touch for Android is a homescreen widget that displays top priority tasks. Android widgets are subject to a set of even stricter visual and fu... Read more
bignose in: The Jobsian fallacy
I think a lot of people get swept up in the romance of Steve's story. ...
Sorin Matei in: ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
How about these feature? When do most of my friends sign in? http:/ ...
screenbeard in: ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
Absolutely brilliant. ThinkUp was a breeze to install. Both hiccups I ...
talkendo in: ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
I...I think I love you. No, seriously, this is a) awesome and b) go ...
Dewbie in: The Jobsian fallacy
I am in total agreement with this statement and maybe be even guilty o ...