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Thanks Eric - been a fan of your work for years! I remember Steve Blank bragging in his early courses that you evangelized his work to the masses. I applaud writing a book on the c…

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Thanks for the thorough analysis. Wish articles like this were not written optimized for SEO. They’re much harder to read!

Does anyone know why apple acquired them just to shut it down? It doesn’t seem like the weather data was unique - what was unique was its user focussed design. To acquire it just t…

God bless the internet!

Privacy.com is a great service. I use them all the time to generate 1 time use card numbers for sites & then cancel the card so they cannot mysteriously charge me. I've been with t…

We hire old people too! We've found that experienced people are a perfect fit for a startup https://www.wrapbook.com/careers

This lite.cnn site is awesome! Text without ads & trackers that bloat the cnn.com site.

There are a lot of efforts to increase diversity in media. One effort that has been happening is providing incentives to have diverse top of the line staff on productions so that t…

I happen to have co-founded a company (Wrapbook) that makes it easy to work with gig-based workers as employees. The entertainment space long ago settled this fight and classifies …

This looks cool - wish this worked with Jekyll!

I've unfortunately become a payroll tax-witholding specialist. You're required to withold taxes in the state that work is performed. If you're working from home, that's your work l…

Wrapbook | Toronto, ON, CA | Sr. & Lead Ruby Engineers | Full-time | Onsite & Remote | https://www.wrapbook.com For employers and project based workforces who work in media product…

Would suggest that SEO is just one of many tactics to acquire users. I bet that from this article - you'll get waaaay more customers for your early stage product than ranking on go…

For a long time I've been confused about the rules of monopolies. Microsoft got into a lot of trouble when they bundled IE into Windows so much so that the US threatened heavily to…

MailChimp likes doing stuff like this. When I once travelled to Ghana, I discovered that because I was in Ghana, they blocked my entire account without warning.

This is HUGE! Microsoft throwing away the IE engine in favor of one more or less standard rendering engine is a huge win for web developers everywhere! It's also something that wou…

Overall, Google at the very least has published their Material Design guidelines that are very good. https://material.io/design/ That said, I'm annoyed that they are shutting down …

What a beautiful tribute!

Would recommend going through Shay Howe's course. He covers the subtleties well. https://learn.shayhowe.com/

Quick question: Have you tried to formally learn CSS? I think you can get by with layouts on 80% knowledge from just tweaking things but to really be able to go start to finish on …