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mterwill

15 karma · joined October 22, 2015

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mterwill··on HOWTO: Be More Productive by Aaron Swartz (2005)
The rest of the article was good, but this wasn’t the best example and caught me off guard:

> Another way to make things more fun is to solve the meta-problem. Instead of building a web application, try building a web application framework with this as the example app. Not only will the task be more enjoyable, but the result will probably be more useful.

mterwill··on Terraforming 1Password
Interesting blog post, but AgileBits should have communicated planned downtime to their customers via email, which they did not. I’ve been a 1Password user for years and recently switched to their hosted offering. I know a massive infrastructure migration is rare, but that’s all the more reason to be transparent ahead of time.
mterwill··on MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8
University of Michigan has a few /16s that they still lease to all devices on their network - wireless and wired.
mterwill··on Email copy from great companies
MailChimp's voice & tone guide at voiceandtone.com does a nice job of explaining the 'why'.