Technology
Hot technologies, advancements in modern technology-driven lifestyle, interesting “fad”s and other tech related news and views.
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Communications Theory in Product Design
As you all know, I love listening to podcasts and being creative. Listening to the myriad of podcasts that I do, I find concepts from one podcast often apply to the field discussed in one of the others. While listening to a podcast on trading card game design, the topic of communications theory and game…
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On lazy engineers and automating business
Tips and tricks for automating common business tasks and fostering a “lazy engineer” mindset.
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On slowing down to speed up
In the fast-paced, notification-driven, world we live in, it’s very easy to get whipped up in the “speed of the things”. We’re constantly after faster internet speeds, faster cars, hacks to improve our lives and save us a few moments here or there. The same is true in business. We’re constantly seeking efficiency hacks and…
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Learnings While Scaling WooCommerce
WooCommerce has, at the time of writing, passed over 6 million downloads (and several million active installations) on WordPress.org. What many aren’t aware of is, WooCommerce reached the 5 million download mark with only 3 engineers officially working full time on the project (while working on several other projects as well). Throughout this process, we…
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Rethinking Email
Almost 2 years ago, I blogged about how email is broken and that we’re all using it incorrectly. Mostly, I was referring to the sending of unnecessarily large files over email, not so much about the day to day use of email. Every day this week, thus far, my email client has remained closed between…
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A quick look at Git cherry-picking
I grew up when tape decks were still a thing. When I was even younger than that, I have memories of using our old turntable in the lounge and putting on whatever record my parents we’re listening to at the time (most often Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band by The Beatles… what an awesome…