Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

Hate New Flickr?    (2013.07.07)

Add ?details=1 to an URL

Dan Benjamin’s hard-hitting questions    (2013.05.05)

Dan Benjamin, too nice a guy by far, again proves he is not up to the task of interviewer

How much money does Instapaper make?    (2013.05.01)

About a mil

Etsy: We’re ‘diverse’ because we let a few girls program    (2013.02.13)

At Etsy, as elsewhere in Silicon Valley, computer programming is identified as a desirable male-dominated job half of whose positions must simply be handed to women

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

Does Marissa Mayer have Asperger’s?    (2012.12.20)

Does Marissa Mayer have Asperger’s? Seemingly so

Precious, bankable Craig Mod    (2012.12.14)

Flowery, grandiloquent Craig Mod and developer-autistic Marco Arment are being disingenuous when they claim not to have defined a new publishing style. They have – and, after the manner of Butt and FANTASTIC MAN, it will now be copied

Still think top-posting is harmless?    (2012.09.26)

Then try reading this mailing-list digest from TFEW (allegedly, writers and editors)

‘The network’    (2012.09.20)

James Bridle: The smartest young man in publishing constantly describes “the network.” Because to his social class, there is only one