I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services. My previous and first post was Conception.
As I finished my last post I had a product idea built around a strategy (growth through social tools and sharing) and …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services
When Labs closed and I entered management I decided not to do any programming for a while. I had a lot to learn about management, and that’s what …
Management is new for me. I have spent a lot of time focusing on the craft of programming, now I focus on the people who focus on the craft of programming.
During the fifteen years I’ve been participating in something I’ll call a developer community, I’ve seen …
This year I’m starting to understand what it is to be middle aged. I think I became middle aged in 2011, but this year maybe I know what that is.
When I was young I viewed middle age through the lens of a young person. I would think: to …
Since my last post about leaving Python, my career has shifted further.
Earlier this year Mozilla shut down its Labs group. It’s a little hard to tell – I guess we didn’t actually shutter anything, and though it was announced internally it is entirely unclear externally. But Mozilla Labs …
With TogetherJS we’ve been trying to make a usable tool for the web we have, and the browsers we have, and the web apps we have. But we’re also accepting a lot of limitations.
For a particular scope the limitations in TogetherJS are reasonable, but my own goals …
In concept videos and imaginings about the Future Of Computing we often see Intelligent Agents: smart computer programs that work on your behalf.
But to be more specific, I’m interested in agents that don’t work through formal rules. An SMTP daemon acts on your behalf routing messages to …
I’ve been working on an experiment, Hotdish, for several weeks now with Aaron Druck and Gregg Lind. I’m really excited about what we’re doing, and in particular I’m excited about some of the principles we are bringing to the design. Hotdish is an experiment in sharing …
I was listening to a podcast with some people from GitHub and I was struck by Hubot.
My understanding of what they are doing: Hubot is a chat bot — in this case it hangs out in Campfire chat rooms, but it could equally be an IRC bot. It started out …