Building and releasing an app with agents
A motorcycle trip plan became a web planner, a data pipeline, and an iPhone app. What I learned about directing agents, owning the result, and knowing when to stop.
Thoughts
Taste Is All That's Left
raf on what's left to matter once AI can make anything: They will be able to make anything, and unable to tell (or stop to think) whether they should. Taste is built the slow, stupid, humiliating way…
How We Do Spikes
Sophie Déziel gives a great summary of her team's approach to research spikes. We handle them in a similar way at Closely but I especially liked her simple…
How Bungie Embraced Evolutionary Product Design with Destiny
Dave Tach makes a great observation on the evolutionary nature of software products: This is the ebb and flow of software development, where bits and bytes…
Common Log-in Problems and Solutions
Nick Babich has a fresh look at one of the first and most error-prone experiences users have with any software product. Especially like his focus on the…
The Trouble With Photos
Over the past year, much has been made about Apple's declining software quality and while I'm not part of the 'Apple is doomed' camp, Walt Mossberg's…
Hearthstone Deck Recipes
I've been a closet Hearthstone player since shortly after the game launched in early 2014. As a player, I enjoy the game mechanics and strategy but as a…
How to Split User Stories
Some good advice from Mike Cohn on how to approach story decomposition: When something will take a long time to develop, that's exactly when I want to use a…
Capturing the Spirit of Hayao Miyazaki
The Verge has an excellent write-up of the Miyazaki Spirit gallery event that happened in San Fransisco this past weekend. Hayao Miyazaki is one of our…
The (Hidden) Costs of Real-Time Communication
Jason Fried on the pitfalls of group chat (he discusses some of this in a recent episode of Product Hunt radio): At its very core, group chat and real-time…