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Communicating new ideas is hard, and there’s probably still a lot of work left in that department. I think the focus has been on the tools so far, but as they start to mature the focus could shift to explanation.

I’ve found Polylith a wonderful way of structuring projects over the years. One of the things I really enjoy is having “interfaces” again, instead of relying on anonymous/private functions (in eg clojure) to hide implementation.

We're thinking and planning for the exact same. Curious.

Interesting, please expound since very few of us had access pre-launch.

Wow, that came out of left-field.

Hope it goes open-source as well later on.

Thanks guys!

Evergreen. Good advice for keeping sane if you have any degree of persona on the internet.

This will only get worse in the next 5 (please not 10+!) years as haters truly and the Clash of Cultures go mainstream. But after the perspective is gained, we will have a more productive discourse online.

”Haters are just fanboys with the sign switched.”

Thought they had an economic meltdown when I first speed-read the headline.

But this is _way_ more interesting than that; a culture shakeup — and since Basecamp are usually trailblazers in so many areas, I’m sure we’ll see many more orgs doing similar realignments in the months and years to come.

Knowing Jason and (having also met) DHH, I know they usually do things (esp the significant things) with the utmost consideration. So I’d be shocked if this wasn’t a long time in the making.

And I won’t have to wonder about the topic of their next book any longer.

Google Wave is such a bitter sweet memory for me still. Such a great vision, such a great team. Such a sad company.

Exactly. But this was the last time the business collectively did something that short-sighted, right? Last time.

Yep, can resonate a lot with that myself. I fell in love with GTD 20y ago and spent years trying to work out the best solution for _organizing_ thought, rather than putting all that energy into actually acting on thought. It was my hoarding & librarian lizard nerd brain gone into overdrive.

It’s similar I think to what I did back in those same days when I switched briefly from Mac to PC (from the pain of MacOS 9 during the super early days of OS X), and spent so much time building my own PCs & installing configuring tearing my hear out re: CD-drivers et al plus just getting to a workable state over and over with Gentoo Linux or whatever flavor du jour — I did stuff FOR the computer instead of actually doing valuable stuff WITH/ON it.

Nowadays I use mostly Apple Notes for pretty much everything (even though the backup story still sucks). But I’ve always been a huge fan of ”outliners”, it seems that it’s the closest to how my mind works. Still use OmniFocus for some personal task management (and OmniOutliner before that), and have used Dave Winer’s very nice little outliner web app off and on for years, just to jot down complex thoughts quickly.

But Roam is definitely the thing I’m most excited about currently in this space. I find Notion.so and the others much too complex for most my needs (even though the inline database is a wicked cool idea!).

And the fact that Roam is a small ClojureScript shop as well is just... PERFECT :)

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IOT, how long until the Homebridge plugin is posted? https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

Good to see. Investing time in any IKEA infrastructure is probably a high-factor value return.

The usual sensationalistic headline, but the gist of the story is crystal clear: ads and writing is an inherent and probably impossible-to-solve conflict of interest.

The media that won't change their business model during the next couple of years will probably be extremely diminished in quality, and thus influence. Can't wait.

(And no, the latest fad of "native advertising", with ads disguising as articles, is not the answer. Hopefully this will fall to the wayside as more people learn critical thinking and sourcing [I don't see much evidence for this yet but I'm very hopeful ;) ])

But, the risk of losing the cadre of serious journalists at the large outlets that today are struggling, and who rightfully demand a good salary for their critical work (as members of the fourth estate), is a real one which needs to be solved. If Medium can be a part of forging a new way ahead, then more power to Ev. Haters always gonna hate, often without much thought, self-reflection, or humility.

Probably the best dev article I've read this year to date. Have youz a newsletter? :)

Boom, 1.0 is finally out!

Can't recommend Lookback enough for on-the-go and remote UI-testing (which is really hard to do right). It's already an indispensable tool for us here at SYB, and will only grow even more capable (some cool plans ahead).

Golden oldie.

Pretty cool indeed. Screencast tells a lot: http://vimeo.com/16976280

That's so sad. Again. x3. ^15.